H2G2 Cast Finalized, Starts Shooting in April

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 29, 2004 @09:30AM from the please-don't-sscrew-it-up dept.

akahige writes "According to The Hollywood Reporter, Martin Freeman (The Office, Love Actually), Mos Def (Showtime, The Italian Job), and Zooey Deschanel (Big Trouble, Elf) have signed on to play Arthur, Ford, and Trillian, respectively. Stephen Moore is once again doing the voice of Marvin. No word on who's playing Zaphod (but wouldn't Eddie Izzard be great?). It worries me when they say things like, "Adams adapted his own novel for the screen. After his death, Karey Kirkpatrick came aboard for a rewrite." But it's Disney, so what do you expect? Shooting begins in April."

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Re:H2G2 by Hogwash+McFly · 2004-01-29 11:08 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If you don't know that, I'm note sure you should be on slashdot : )

Well sir, you certainly belong here.

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It happened to The Italian Job... by holizz · 2004-01-29 11:51 · Score: 0, Flamebait

And now another British classic is getting the Hollywood bastardisation, sorry, the Hollywood treatment whereby a film is destroyed and the basic plot is taken and Americanised and popularised. Hmm, if the Americans complain about our good humour all the time they're going to burn the cinema down after H2G2. I wonder if they could be made to burn America (USA) down.