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Hitchhikers Movie Update

Posted by timothy on from the movie-worth-waiting-for dept.

DaViking writes "Over at Yahoo Movies there are a few more pictures, including one of the Heart of Gold, and an updated trailer for up coming Hitchhikers movie." I'm hoping this film will inspire some sequels, too!

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  1. Dont forget your towel by flyneye · · Score: 2, Funny

    how bout burt reynolds in smokey and the restaurant at the end of the universe?

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    1. Re:Dont forget your towel by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 2, Funny

      You like me! You like me at an improbability level of three to the power of 326,000-to-1 against! You really like me!

  2. Great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're going to make Heart of Gold into a spaceball.

  3. Heart of Gold by m_member · · Score: 2, Funny
    That Heart of Gold looks like an upturned air freshener!

    I like that!!

    1. Re:Heart of Gold by Adhemar · · Score: 5, Funny

      The shape of the ship is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a shoe.

    2. Re:Heart of Gold by Chrax · · Score: 2, Funny

      This was Douglass Adams's idea. This was one bit he made clear before he died.

      Anyway, what good are stories if you're compelled to stay consistent? Adams certainly felt no compulsion, hence the five book trilogy, as well as the changed story in every medium.

      I find the inconsistencies funny as they add to the confusion as people talk about Hitchhiker's Guide. Maybe that's just me.

    3. Re:Heart of Gold by Macgrrl · · Score: 2, Funny

      (BTW: Any female H2G2 fans here? I'm looking for a girlfriend!)

      1. Yes

      2. So am I

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  4. Re:Need a life by flyneye · · Score: 2, Funny

    Burt Reynolds in " So Long and Thanks for the Deliverance "

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  5. Sequels! Yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because we all know that if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

    Besides, sequels are usually just as good if not better than the original.

    Sorry. I'll shut up now.

  6. Re:A lot of sphears. by simon_clarkstone · · Score: 2, Funny
    It seems that spheres are going to be a very common shape in this movie, With Planets, The Hart of Gold that looks like a big sphere, and Marvins head which is a huge sphere on a little body. I don't know about everyone else all those sphears seem more of a nineties thing. The 2000 seem to prefer more edges in the style.
    Sounds like load of balls to me. ;-)
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  7. That's no Heart of Gold... by Colonel+Cholling · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...that's a space station!

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  8. Re:did they read the book? by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    They did read the book, have you not seen Nike's new designs yet?

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  9. Re:Answer to the question... by Jeremi · · Score: 2, Funny
    How can they give away the answer without asking the question?


    If they were to also include the Question in the trailer, the universe would end. It has therefore been omitted as a safety precaution.

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  10. Re:Charlie Brown by UserGoogol · · Score: 5, Funny

    Although his form is completely contradictory to the original vision, it could work. After all, I think Disney has a very intimate understanding of what "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes" would have in mind while designing a robot.

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  11. Re:HHGTTG shouldn't be a movie by corbettw · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure this film is going to be a HUGE disappointment, but then, perhaps I'm just being pessimistic.

    How oddly appropriate.

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  12. Re:did they read the book? by dswensen · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, in this movie, Zaphod Beeblebrox will be played by an eleven year old Vietnamese girl who speaks all her lines through interpretive dance.

    Hey, relax you uptight purists! Just go read the book! It's in the movie, so it has to be right!

  13. Re:boo by myowntrueself · · Score: 2, Funny

    "but it looks like Disney is tring to make it into a kids movie."

    Well yeah, its *disney*

    If they'd released it under 'touchstone' then maybe Trillian would be sexy... but it'd still be total crap; Its *disney*, remember.

    Even Hitchikers will be shit once disney get through with it.

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  14. Re:Can't wait by naoursla · · Score: 2, Funny

    It IS in the shape of a sneaker. It's even the same size. Do you think that everyone in the galaxy has feet shaped like we roadblocks do?

  15. Re:did they read the book? by clambake · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, but that rendering of the Heart of Gold looks wrong. It's supposed to be shaped like a running shoe.

    Perhaps it's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a running shoe?

  16. Re:boo by michaeldot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Disney "made" Pulp Fiction.

    And the way they dumbed down that motherf****r down really gave me the f****ng ****s!

    (Mind you, I wouldn't mind someone going medieval on Eisner's ass. The guy's a bozo and shouldn't be in charge of a company as important to US culture as Disney.)

  17. When will the novelization come out? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...and who will author it? Who's publishing it?