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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."

3 of 541 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What to expect.. by Frymaster · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    A movie where quality will be second to the marketting of junk collectibles

    ah disney. they took victor hugo's classic "the hunchback of notre dame" and gave us...

    the lunchbox of notre dame.

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  2. Re:What to expect.. by entrigant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Whoa obession... think maybe over dramatizing a bit?

  3. Re:What to expect.. by Golias · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Now go look up the first publish date and realize that all that was written probably before you were born.

    1984 was written in 1948.

    Brave New World was written in 1931.

    Heinlein was far from the first to use sci-fi as a cautionary tale about the dangers of modern political trends. (The first popular example I can think of is H.G. Wells, with "The Time Machine" in 1895.)

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    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.