Hitchhikers Movie Update

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!

Comments

did they read the book?

[soundofthemoon]

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.

Re:did they read the book?

[Rary]

"Sorry, but that rendering of the Heart of Gold looks wrong."

How can it be "wrong"? If that's what it looks like in the movie, then it is absolutely not wrong.

To be more precise, the movie is not the book. The book is not the radio play. The radio play is not the tv series. And the tv series is most definitely not the Infocom text adventure game.

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.

Douglas Adams always changed things up when the story went from one medium to another. There is no right or wrong in telling the H2G2 story. The story simply is whatever it is in whatever medium you happen to be experiencing it in. In this medium, the Heart of Gold is a ball. In the book, it was a shoe. If you want the shoe version, read the book. But this isn't the book, it's the movie, and it will differ, even contradict, the other versions -- which, by the way, frequently contradict each other already. This is nothing new. It's the way it has always been in the universe of H2G2.

Marvin, oh Marvin

[gwernol]

"Marvin the depressed robot"? WTF? He's Marvin the Paranoid Android. I know he is a robot who is depressed, but sheesh he is, was, and always will be the paranoid android.

If they can't even get that right... let's hope its just the phone sanitizers at Yahoo who made the mistake and not the movie's writer(s).

Re:HHGTTG shouldn't be a movie

[rokzy]

>it was never designed to be a film

the fact Douglas Adams himself worked on a version of the script seems to suggest otherwise.

Re:Heart of Gold

[Adhemar]

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

Direct Link to Trailer

[David Saxton]

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

Re:Direct Link to Trailer

[peterprior]

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

boo

[mpost4]

I love HHGTTG and probably will go see it just for that, but it looks like Disney is tring to make it into a kids movie. Just look at Marvin. (Mod me down if you want) but it saddens me that Disney is making this movie. I fear that they might try to "clean" up the movie.

"new" trailer?

[wyldeone]

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.

Repeat after me

[adolfojp]

Ok, repeat after me. It is a mass media oriented movie adaptation of a non visual original that appealed only to a niche market.

Changes will have to be made in order to make it marketable and profitable. Kids will want to see it, and they will not understand the humour, so they will need cutesy characters. Many non intelectual types will expect more explosions and COOL effects than required so they will be there. The ships will be of a more recognizable shape so that the average moviegoer doen't say "A sneaker! This is lame". And so on...

If I don't get another Battlefield Earth I will be more than happy with the movie. And only if it makes a profit we will get a sequel.

Cheers, Adolfo

Re:Can't wait

[Rary]

"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.

Re:Charlie Brown

[UserGoogol]

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.