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Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-coming-people dept.

wakaranai writes "The BBC reports that the new "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" movie will star Martin Freeman (Tim from The Office) as Arthur Dent. According to the Internet Movie Database filming starts early 2004, and Marvin's voice will be Stephen Moore, reviving his role from the classic 1981 BBC TV version." If you haven't seen The Office, it takes the subject matter Dilbert has bored us with, and makes it utterly hysterical. This is a good bit of casting. I'm still available to play Zaphod.

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  1. So, Taco . . . by GnrlFajita · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . are you saying that you're a two-headed alien, or just look like one?

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    1. Re:So, Taco . . . by beacher · · Score: 3, Funny

      If cloning were as simple as posting, I'm sure there would be dupes of him floating around. It's just a matter of sewing on the other head.....
      B

    2. Re:So, Taco . . . by blowdart · · Score: 5, Funny

      No no, the second head is a dupe head, which appeared 3 days after the first head was posted.

  2. Movie go'ers who haven't read the book.... by eggoeater · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...will be pissed when they find out that the Ultimate question about life, the universe, and everything, is never revealed.
    I remember after the end of FOTR I overheard people saying "What happened to the ring?". Were these people living in a cave before going to the theater?? ....but hey...screw 'em.
    This is going to be great.

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    1. Re:Movie go'ers who haven't read the book.... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 3, Funny

      (For the humor impaired, the joke is that 6*9 is not, actually, 42, implying there's something seriously wrong with the Universe when it can't even answer its own question correctly.)

      Actually, the Earth matrix that was calculating the question got irrevocably screwed up by the arrival of all the telephone cleaners, hair dressers, and other useless beings from another planet. Thus, depending on how you interpret it, either the question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 7*6 or the question is simply lost forever.

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  3. I'd pick... by Xpilot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sean Connery for Slartibartfast!

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    1. Re:I'd pick... by Baby_with_a_nailgun · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sean Connery for Slartibartfast!

      Would that make him Shlartibartfasht?

  4. Anyone who liked Marvin the paranoid android.... by mgpeter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Check out Marvin the Web Server.

  5. Deep Thought by CelticWhisper · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe the Deep Thought supercomputer will be played by Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5 cluster! I'm sure Apple would state that if any computer can tell us the meaning of life, it's the G5. How's 'bout it, guys?

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  6. Wouldn't Cmdr Taco make a better by 3.5+stripes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Vogon ??? :)

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  7. Re:Stephen Moore by corbettw · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, well, that sort of thing wouldn't happen if you had a brain the size of a planet. Not that you care.

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  8. Re:Dilbert is funny, witty. by CaptainBaz · · Score: 5, Funny
    The Office is pretentious and boring. Is one of those things that only Brits get I guess.
    American huh?

    This may help.
  9. Re:Word twisting by eln · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know, when I first read the book, when I was quite young, I came to the part about the zebra crossing and became very confused. I couldn't imagine any place in England where there was such an abundance of zebras hanging around that they would have to put in zebra crossings.

    Then of course, the idea of someone getting run over by a zebra, or perhaps a herd of stampeding zebras, made me laugh, so I thought maybe the author was just going for some kind of absurdist humor.

  10. Re:Word twisting by Thud457 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The "country" of "England" is absurdist humor.

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  11. Re:The Office by Malfourmed · · Score: 3, Funny
    Australian soaps sit in the middle: the people are poor but beuatiful. Not sure what the message is...

    Everybody needs good neighbours.
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