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H2G2 Cast Finalized, Starts Shooting in April

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. What to expect.. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny

    But it's Disney, so what do you expect?

    Probably not what you expect..

    Multiple Hitchiker toys at (McDonalds|Burger King) so people have to make several visits to buy them all.

    Perhaps a Hitchiker Ride at Disney World if the movie proves very successful.

    A DVD release followed soon after by a "collectors edition" release.

    A re-release of the books all spiffied up for the new consumers.

    A movie where quality will be second to the marketting of junk collectibles.

    bah.. /. needs a "+1, Cynical Bastard" mod.

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    1. Re:What to expect.. by grahams · · Score: 3, Funny
      Perhaps a Hitchiker Ride at Disney World if the movie proves very successful.
      Yeah, and then 20 years from now they will make a movie based on the ride.
    2. Re:What to expect.. by petabyte · · Score: 5, Funny

      bah.. /. needs a "+1, Cynical Bastard" mod.

      I believe its called "insightful" :)

    3. Re:What to expect.. by thegoofy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, I can see the advertising blitz now...

      "Towels in the kids meals - Yes, Kids! You can hide from your parents simply by placing this over your head!"

      "This weeks special, the so long and thanks for all the McFish"

    4. Re:What to expect.. by Mononoke · · Score: 3, Funny
      You can tell a lot about a person if they know anything about Douglas Adams' books.
      Yeah, just ask them if they can figure out how the couch got stuck in the stairwell. If the don't know, then pass 'em by.

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    5. Re:What to expect.. by YOU+LIKEWISE+FAIL+IT · · Score: 3, Funny
      Multiple Hitchiker toys at (McDonalds|Burger King) so people have to make several visits to buy them all.

      I will gleefully whore out my favourite childhood novel if I can get a plastic Vogon figure with my Bugblatter Burger of Traal.

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    6. Re:What to expect.. by TomV · · Score: 5, Funny

      * Counter staff with Genuine People Personalities (tm)

      * A cup of something which tastes almost (but not entirely) unlike tea.

      * Shoes that not only do not fit, but which are actually joined at the heels.

      DNA was always a bit close to the bone.

    7. Re:What to expect.. by jafac · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't forget the lawyers putting the kibosh on the Babelfish and Learning to Fly, due to potential liability lawsuits ("My son Bobby put a Trout in his ear, and now he's deaf. I want 25 million dollars!" or "My daughter Suzie jumped off the roof trying to miss the ground, and broke her neck, and I want 50 million dollars!")

      So, the Babelfish will need to be wrapped in a towel and placed on the head,
      and Flying? well, with Disney, we're talking about at faerie dust, right?

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  2. Disney by funny-jack · · Score: 5, Funny

    But it's Disney, so what do you expect?

    Umm... a happy ending?

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  3. Zombies on the board by phoenix321 · · Score: 4, Funny

    After his death, Karey Kirkpatrick came aboard for a rewrite.

    Written in hell. No doubt...

  4. Eddie Izzard - Both Male and Female? by Filmwatcher888 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would he have one head with makeup, and the other without? - Cake or Death, Little Red Cookbook!

  5. they forgot the most important part!! by xao+gypsie · · Score: 5, Funny

    ....what company will be supplying the towel???

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  6. Re:H2G2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I prefer:

    H1i1t1c1h1h1i1k1e1r1s1space1G1u1i1d1e1space1t1o1 sp ace1t1h1e1space1G1a1l1a1x1y1

  7. This must be Thursday. by wildsurf · · Score: 5, Funny

    I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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  8. Obvious response by elsilver · · Score: 5, Funny
    It worries me when they say things like,...

    Don't Panic.

    E.

  9. Head going to explode! by onyxruby · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think my head shall explode. Have loved the books for longer than I can remember. I even adapted part of one book for a play in college - went over well. Have also been boycotting Disney for longer than I can remember. Refuse to give them any money since long before their whole DRM, MPAA etc behavior. Head going to explode! Have I been sent to hell, with this as my punishment?

  10. At Least there's no Will Smith. by Dolemite_the_Wiz · · Score: 3, Funny

    The last thing Hollywood needs is another crappy adaptation of cool Sci-Fi media by Will Smith. Wild, Wild, Wild West and MIB were enough.

    Dolemite
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  11. Re:A black, American Ford? by NaugaHunter · · Score: 5, Funny

    They'll probably change him from Ford Prefect to Ford Taurus, or even Ford F-150.

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  12. Obligatory Disney Joke by 2names · · Score: 5, Funny
    Mickey Mouse is in court and the Judge says, "I'm sorry, Mickey, but I can't grant you a divorce simply because you think your wife is a bit odd."

    Mickey says, "I didn't say she was odd, I said she was FUCKING GOOFY."

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  13. So I guess by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Funny

    we're not going to boycott disney anytime soon, eh?

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  14. A Black Arthur Dent?! by thelizman · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...why not, it worked in blazing saddles...

    1. Re:A Black Arthur Dent?! by zoobot · · Score: 4, Funny

      There was a Black Arthur Dent in Blazing Saddles?

  15. ekoJ OCS diputS by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    "No word on who's playing Zaphod (but wouldn't Eddie Izzard be great?"

    I nominate Darl McBride, he's already two-faced!

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  16. I don't see what all the fuss is about... by iapetus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought everyone knew that Fords could be any colour you like, as long as they're black...

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  17. Mickey Mice made Earth? by allrong · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surely the mice won't all look like Mickey will they? So long and thanks for all the Nemo?

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  18. Adams' thoughts on TV and Hollywood... by Dr.+Zowie · · Score: 3, Funny
    I heard Adams speak, in 1984, about the television series and, in particular, the HHG sequences within the series. Those sequences were all hand-animated (since computer graphics were actually expensive then!). He talked about how he saw the initial draft animations, and figured that that they were too complex for an American audience (in keeping with conventional Hollywood wisdom). Then he happened to be in the U.S. (maybe to cut a deal for the series, I forget why) and spotted some teenagers playing video games. That was the time when Xevious, Defender, and Sinistar were all the rage. Adams went back to the studio, he told us, and insisted that they redo the animations to make them more complicated.


    Here's hoping the creative/adaptive tam here has the same spirit of humorous overload!