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New Cast Information For 'Hitchhiker's' Movie

Posted by timothy on from the movie-with-a-heart-of-gold dept.

Kathleen writes "I was listening to the old Hitchiker's radio plays, and feeling nostalgic, I decide to check out how the movie version was going along. Well, they've filled out some important parts, Zaphod and Marvin have been cast. Zaphod is played by Sam Rockwell who's most recently been in Matchstick Men and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Marvin is being played by Warwick Davis (Who was Willow Ufgood in Willow). Slartibartfast will be played by Bill Nighy. This news is a little distressing, since I was under the impression that Stephen Moore would still be handling the voice of Marvin."

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  1. Hitchhiker's guide to slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you have stairs in your house?

  2. First POST!!! by 0x1337 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, umm, my first first-post...

    Anyways - its kind of interesting how NO ONE is commenting. Could this be cause no one can relate to this in any way? Could this be cause most of slashdot's population wasn't born in the 60s?

    Oooh... the possibilities...

    1. Re: First POST!!! by 0x1337 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Can anyone please tell me why the post I am replying to is moderated "Flaimbait?"

    2. Re: First POST!!! by WTFmonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Because it mentions rappers, who are for the most part black, as well as Roots, and the casting of white people in said movie. It is therefore quite obviously racist, and the moderators are trying to ease their guilty consciences by down-modding something which, although they don't have a problem with, might be seen as objectionable by the easily excitable thereby ameliorating any latent guilt they may have.

  3. is this the fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, I think it is. Propz to all my dead homiez.

  4. Re:fuck you. get a life. by presearch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What?

  5. Re:fuck you. get a life. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd like to subscribe to your friggin' newsletter, man! You just tell it like it is! When Ollie North or Rush Limbaugh call it quits some day, I'm glad people like you are there to fill the gap!

  6. Eeek! Which will it be? by BillsPetMonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Zaphod is played by Sam Rockwell

    Is he going to feign an English accent, pretend to be Scottish or just forget the origins of the book and use his native Californian accent?

    Odds are on the last one I think.

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  7. Re:Missing Data! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pain detracts from other pain.