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HHGTG Screenwriter Interviews Himself
Overly Critical Guy writes "The screenwriter for the upcoming Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy film has interviewed himself. A snippet: 'Who am I? "Not Douglas Adams" is the answer that concerns most people.'"
when the answer is not "42"?
I hope this doesn't become a fad, most film actors don't have the IQ of an average person let alone enough to figure out that they are talking to themselvs....
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And I didn't get a chance to watch their commercial and music video reel before the call (because my DVD player wouldn't play UK Region 2, but I digress)
The snake bites itself in the tail...
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From reading the interview, this guy seems to 'get' Adams humour, so this could be an exception.
As for US remakes, I really never know why they bother most of the time. The Ladykillers? For the love of good, why are they remaking the Ladykillers? Personally, I reckon the Orange adverts at the cinema are far too close to the truth of how movies get made.
Well, with Doughlas Adams not around, someone of course had to do the screen-writing. I wished all along that the chosen someone be British.
Well, it's probably unimportant that the writer inherit concretely from the British class so long as he implements the Satirist interface.
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Hey! Watch the spoilers!
I don't think you can take a guy who spent most of his life surrounded by other Monty Python characters (and drew THOSE animations) as representative of anything, really.
He certainly stole Adams idea of combining humour with SciFi (or Fantasy), Well, no. As much as I've enjoyed their writings the idea that either of them invented that idea is silly. (And where did Tom Holt or Robert Aspirin get it, from P2P illegal idea sharing? The SFWIA will be busting them soon, no doubt. :)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I don't know what's worse; that you constructed this evil phrase... or that we find it funny.
waiter!... I need a life over here please, this ones a bit stale.
um.... isn't mel gibson an austrailian?
It doesn't matter what you think any more
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to study for my triangle-cutting exam...
click-clack, front and back. I'm not moving this car otherwise.
Don't worry about it. As an American, I'm enjoying this opportunity to read posts about how superior Britain is by people who use words like "rediculous", "sence", and other brilliant demonstrations of true mastery of the English language. "It IS their language, after all," I said with noticeable sarcasm.
So Marvin has Internet access. I'm surprised he posts AC, though.
Here's one thing I'm worried about:
That someone along the line, someone important to the process, will mess it up terribly. The whole movie can get made perfectly and it can still get messed up -- we're talking about Disney here, they can always decide the editors did a horrible job and re-edit it, which could be murder to a Hitchhiker's movie.
And here's another thing I'm worried about:
Consider, for a moment, that everyone involved with this could be perfect and the movie could still disappoint. This is not a situation where they can take any old crap out of the script pile, raise its attributes by equipping it with a director and actors, and plop it out onto the screen.
This movie is going to require real directoral skill to work, but he can't get too fancy with the material or he'll incur the wrath of geeks everywhere.
And the last thing I'm worried about:
A Hitchhiker's movie has been bouncing around Hollywood for a long time. Adams has been dead for what, two or three years now? When did the project get uncorked and start moving towards production? It wasn't long after the critical fatality.
The thing that may have held up the movie for so long is Adams himself, refusing to accept the various flavors of Hollywood taint that infect so many productions. Of course, the success of the Lord Of The Rings movies has changed things a little bit....
My god, that's the new thing that really worries me:
A Hitchhiker's Movie is in production because Hollywood has concluded there's money to be made in movie adaptations of books beloved by geeks.
O'Reilly is sitting on a gold mine.
The only good comedy sitcom to ever come out of America was Frasier.
You misspelled "most British."
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In Korea, long hair is for old people!
Less is more. He gets it.
Unless you're talking about wine....
I'm sure whatever happens will be Mostly Harmless.
<jedi> There is something funny here. You laugh. </jedi>
O'Reilly is sitting on a gold mine.
What a great idea, and why restrict it to O'Reilly! We can have George Lucas do K&R with all the C++ special effects added in later, have Peter Jackson direct a definitive version of Knuth that will most of the geeks can live with, and the guy who did Trainspotting can do the Camel book...
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
Peter: Wow! This is the smartest show on TV!
Great. I'm about two hours late seeing this post. By now geeks everywhere have ordered every last bag of Herrods Earl Grey #42.
There's no place like
I like this combination of two proposed answers:
Q. Why is a raven like a writing desk?
A. Because there's an O in both, an R in neither, and each begins with an E.
(Think about it.)