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.

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We came...

[Anonymous Coward]

We saw.
We trolled.

TRoLL.

Hands up - Who wants to see Taco's Other Head?

[Anonymous Coward]

***shudder!!!***

Dilbert is funny, witty.

[jotaeleemeese]

The Office is pretentious and boring. Is one of those things that only Brits get I guess.

Re:Dilbert is funny, witty.

[grandmofftarkin]

I'm a British person... and I don't find it funny.

Bullshit! It is unlikely that someone British would say it like that. You would simply say "I am British". Or more likely, "I am English" or "I am Scottish" or "I am Welsh".

If you haven't seen it, it's a satire based on work life, but from what I understand a lot of people like it.

I find it hard to believe that as a 'British person' you could have avoided it but I'm prepared to accept it is possible.

So stop generalizing! Generalizations are bad!

This is the nail in the coffin. There is no way you are British if you spell like that! Tell me, what exactly was the point of saying you are British? Did you think people would respect your opinion more if you did???

Re:Poor Synopsis

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus The Office is a huge steaming pile of excrement!

Keep your head on

[xee]

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

Re:Does the humour cros the atlantic?

[fenix down]

We don't really give a shit about the jokes, we just like to listen to you people talk funny.

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.