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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. did they read the book? by soundofthemoon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, but that rendering of the Heart of Gold looks wrong. It's supposed to be shaped like a running shoe. Hmm, perhaps it is supposed to be a running shoe shaped for the foot of a superintelligent shade of the color blue.

    1. Re:did they read the book? by Noodlenose · · Score: 2, Informative
      If I recall correctly, in the radio play and tv series, the characters went to Milliways before they got to Magrathea.

      You don't. Arthur and Ford are getting picked up by Zaphod and Trillian on their way to Margratea.

      This chain of event stays the same at least in the numerous plays and the book.

    2. Re:did they read the book? by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 2, Informative

      If I recall correctly, in the radio play and tv series, the characters went to Milliways before they got to Magrathea. In the books, Milliways happened in the second book, with Magrathea happening in the first. Definite contradiction there. In the books, Trillian is clearly described as being brunette and extremely intelligent. In the tv series she was a dumb ditzy blonde. In the movie, Ford Prefect is black. In the tv series, he was white.

      ready for extreme pedanticism?

      Ford's color was never given, or I'm mistaken. We just assumed he was white.

      I don't recall Trillian being described physically in the books, but in the TV show she was smart but everyone else thought she was a dumb ditzy blonde.

      And the shoe. You mentioned that everything was different, but in all three "differences" you cited, the Heart of Gold was shaped like a shoe.

      If the guy that worked on the screenplay shows up with words from the Man himself saying he wanted to change the Heart of Gold, I'll be fine with it. In the meantime, I consider it highly unlikely the Man himself would have made that particular choice.

      And the Magrathea thing. Oh yeah. Let's see if I remember this correctly, huh? It has been a little while since I read the books. Let's see, Ford and Arthur get picked up and they go to Magrathea. Then, while they're trying to escape the psycho Vogons that are after Arthur, they have the seance and the old man shrinks the Heart of Gold, sticks it in Zaphod's pocket, and sends him to the offices of the H2G2. Then he gets taken to a Frogstar world, and I don't recall exactly how they get to the Restauraunt. But in the book, the restauraunt was built on the ruins of the Frogstar world rather than Magrathea.

      damn I'm sleepy. 'night.

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  2. Heart of Gold by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 3, Informative
    Erm.. Wasn't it supposed to look more like a giant trainer than a bowling ball?
    Beneath it lay uncovered a huge starship, one hundred and fifty metres long, shaped like a sleek running shoe, perfectly white and mindboggingly beautiful. At the heart of it, unseen, lay a small gold box which carried within it the most brain-wretching device ever conceived, a device which made this starship unique in the history of the galaxy, a device after which the ship had been named - The Heart of Gold.
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  3. Re:Marvin, oh Marvin by notmikey · · Score: 2, Informative

    IMDB's H2G2 page seems to indicate that he's still MtPA, and I'll take that as reasonably more credible than the B Ark'ers at Yahoo.

  4. Direct Link to Trailer by David+Saxton · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those who don't want to scroll through countless popups: wget http://mp3content01.bcst.yahoo.com/bus01root6/Bus0 1Share24/yahoomovies/6/8768235.mov

    1. Re:Direct Link to Trailer by peterprior · · Score: 5, Informative

      Hmm.. there's a space in that.. get rid of it or just click here

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  6. Re:HHGTTG shouldn't be a movie by Khuffie · · Score: 2, Informative

    Douglas Adams himself spend the last years of his life writing the script and trying to get it done. Heck, he's been trying to get it made into a movie for a long time now. It's his vision, he wants it to be a movie, so he thinks it should be made.

  7. Re:HHGTTG shouldn't be a movie by iabervon · · Score: 3, Informative

    It wasn't designed to be a book, either. It wasn't even designed to be a radio series. The first episode of it was designed to be an episode of a radio series about the world ending in different ways. Fortunately, Douglas Adams wasn't good at designing things; he was good at coming up with brilliant material. The thing about Douglas Adams is that he would turn out a lot of stuff that didn't fit together at all, and have a good editor make it into something that worked.

    That's not to say that the movie will actually be done well. But HHGTTG is just about ideal for doing in different media, because it's really a set of characters and situations, not a story.

    (Oh, and it's already a TV miniseries)

  8. Lame Design ... so far ... by orangeguru · · Score: 2, Informative

    Marvin looks like a small little stormtrooper drone. Yuck! And the Heart of Gold ... like a flying airport. All drawings and photos so far look way to clean and 2001 like.

    And I miss a bit more englishness so far ...

    Very different to the first pictures and stuff Peter Jackson released about Lord of the Rings (which had just the right 'feeling'about them).

    I am afraid Hitchhikers will be a flop ...

  9. Re:Marvin, oh Marvin by mstra · · Score: 2, Informative

    The IMDB lists him as "Marvin the Paranoid Android", so all may not be lost.

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  10. Re:uhhhh by Teh_monkeyCode · · Score: 3, Informative

    The film finished filming in August of 2004.

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  11. "new" trailer? by wyldeone · · Score: 4, Informative

    Am I the only one who has a problem with this being called a new trailer? There was actually a /. story when this teaser trailer came out about 6 months ago.

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  13. one movie per novel? by Harald+Paulsen · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was hoping they would make one movie per novel, sort of like lord of the rings. There is so much material in the books that there shouldn't be a problem to make several movies, one per novel.

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  14. Re:Can't wait by Rary · · Score: 5, Informative
    "And I thought the general shape of the Heart of Gold was that of a sneaker"

    The thing about the H2G2 universe, though, is that everything changes, nothing is definite, and many things that exist in one of the versions of the story (radio, tv, book, computer game, movie, whatever) completely contradict the way things are in the other versions. That's the way Douglas Adams wanted it to be.

    To quote the man himself (from A Guide To The Guide: Some unhelpful remarks from the author in the omnibus edition of the first four books in the Trilogy...

    The History of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is now so complicated that every time I tell it I contradict myself, and whenever I do get it right I'm misquoted. So the publication of this omnibus edition seemed like a good opportunity to set the record straight -- or at least firmly crooked. Anything that is put down wrong here is, as far as I'm concerned, wrong for good.
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  15. Re:Not first HHGTTG movie... by Denyer · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's six episodes of a BBC adaptation, actually. Not a bad one, either, in parts -- the 'CGI' for the guide iteself is actually meticulously hand-drawn, and the game sequence with the fleet being eaten by a dog is spot-on.

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  16. Re:Marvin, oh Marvin by chochos · · Score: 2, Informative

    I always thought they had named that song after Marvin, even though it has nothing to do with Marvin OR HHGTTG

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  17. Re:Heart of Gold by i+love+pineapples · · Score: 1, Informative

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

    Yes.