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Hitchhiker's Guide Movie Greenlighted

Posted by timothy on from the gold-brick-cast-in-velvet dept.

Overly Critical Guy writes "According to Chud, the Hitchhiker's Guide movie is a go." It's too bad DNA won't be around to see it, but good news for his fans. I hope they can borrow Weta Digital's render farm to perfect some of the characters, though anything will be an improvement on the BBC series' special effects.

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  1. Special effects by Colitis · · Score: 4, Informative

    As they say..."The BBC Special Effects department. Neither special nor effective".

    Blake's 7 fans know all about this. And anyone who managed to watch the Doctor Who story "The Green Death" without being a gibbering wreck after seeing the giant fly effect has my undying respect.

    As someone noted earlier though, I liked the graphics for the Guide entries - lovely style.

  2. Re:DNA?? by aaribaud · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just about everyone who read a bit about Mr Douglas Noel Adams, born the same year as his narrow-minded scientific counterpart, but in a more artisanal fashion.

  3. Re:Well... by prbt · · Score: 3, Informative

    "AKA the Shark-jumping doctor"

    Now, that's not quite fair on Peter Davison. The quality of the scripts took a severe nosedive towards the end of his reign, and bumped along the ground for the whole of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy's tenure.

    IMO, some of the 5th Doctor's early adventures were amongst the finest in the whole Doctor Who canon.

  4. Re:DNA would enjoy... by bigdavex · · Score: 4, Informative

    You know, I always got the feeling that "Mostly Harmless" was deliberately written by a bitter man to piss his fanbase off so that they'd stop bugging him to write sequels to the first four books.

    Douglas Adams spoke to this himself in a 1998 interview

    Well, I started to write another Dirk Gently book, and I just lost it. For some reason, I couldn't get it going, so I had to put it aside. I didn't know what to do with it. I looked at the material again about a year later, and suddenly thought: Actually, the reason is that the ideas and the character don't match. I've tried to go for the wrong kind of ideas, and these ideas would actually fit much better in a Hitchhiker book, but I don't want to write another Hitchhiker book at the moment. So I sort of put them on one side. And maybe one day I will write another Hitchhiker book, because there's an awful lot of material sitting 'round waiting to go in it. Another reason is that the last one, Mostly Harmless, is a very bleak book. People have tried to read all sorts of complicated reasons into it, and the reason was that I just had a lousy year. Just for all sorts of personal reasons, from a terrible death in the family to... Every kind of area, whether it was personal or professional, had just gone sour on me, against a background in which I had to write a funny book, which turned out not to be very funny. So I'd quite like to maybe do another Hitchhiker book that sort of perks up the tone again.
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  5. Re:FSP by fredrik70 · · Score: 3, Informative

    THat'd have been your first ever wasted mod point as well as said elsewhere. Also, please read the moderator guidelines, You should *NOT* moderate anyone down just because you disagree with them. Moderation is not about getting your view seen, but to keep the discussion going and clean from trolls, flamebaits, etc.

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