Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports

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.

Comments

Keep your head on

[xee]

Hey taco,
I'll be your second head! And between scenes, we can go get high behind the set.

Was the role dead?

[p3d0]

I think you meant "reprising" the role.

Zebra Crossing

[Deanasc]

Yeah, when I was a kid and saw the TV show on PBS I was confused by that. I thought he was run over by a zebra. That perhaps zebras lived in England and roamed free. Kind of like a Deer Crossing in rural America. But then that shows you the true value of an American public school education.

Re:Word twisting

[spike hay]

The original version of Blade Runner sucked. The idiot movie execs made Ford do a voicover after the fact because they thought the audience would be too dumb to follow the movie. They also added a ridiculous happy ending.