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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. Ah, good old disney... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 0, Troll

    Looks like Disney is back into thier favourite trick: Taking something in the public domain, making a movie out of it, then copywriting it for themselves for the next eleventy billion years. Honestly, after seeing what they did to Notre Dame and the like, I'm hesitant to trust them on anything at all.

  2. More British classics to be murdered! by Brutal_Adviser · · Score: 0, Troll

    We have had to suffer the indignity of naff remakes of "Get Carter" and "The Italian Job" but this is too much. I fail to see how Yanks can understand and appreciate the very British blend of irony and self depreciating humour. Don't knock the BBC TV series. The low budget effects fit the subject and humour style very well. Why does everything have to be totally dumbed down to cater for Yank taste. How about trying to introduce them to a bit of subtlety. An "Old European"

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