More on H2G2, Including an Early Review

mwilli writes "Ain't It Cool has an early review of the upcoming Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. Along with the review is a short video showing Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, and Trillian and some pictures. Also, 'I understand that in the movie, Zaphod's second head is inside his nostril. And this all ties in with the increased prominence of the Church Of Arkleseizure in the movie (a race with fifty noses, and the first to develop the aerosol deodorant before the wheel) and their leader John Malkovich, who also has a second head, and Zaphod's unwillingness to sneeze.'"

Comments

Re:Marvin's Head

[lxt]

"Also, how is he supposed to look depressed if he doesnt have a face!!" The radio series conveyed Marvin's depression exceedingly well, and I don't remember seeing his face...and anything is better than the BBC TV version. As long as Warwick Davis is a good as Stephen Moore (who played him on the BBC series)...

Re:Black Man (Mos Def) the hip hop thug RUINS it !

[joeslice]

Let's see.... Aliens from other galaxies, folks with random numbers of body parts growing from who knows where. Rich characters that have been killed innumerable times by the same other character. A depressed robot. A cow suggesting what portion of him is the best to eat....

All this, and I would have to agree with you; Douglas Adams would never have had the imagination to include anyone but whites....

Re:Don't complain about changes

[eidolons]

You know what is a positive sign? While the reviewer hadn't read or listened to Hitchhiker's in the past, his writing reflects he caught Adam's sardonic, existentialist British humor:

For those of you who don't know this is your basic boy meets girl, boy loses girl to president of the galaxy, boy's planet is destroyed, boy finds girl and travels through the galaxy in search of the ultimate question. You know, the usual.

Looks like the spirit of the books is present in the movies, for the author to obviously have caught the "bug" - that's the most important thing.

Re:Black Man (Mos Def) the hip hop thug RUINS it !

[Scrameustache]

You ever think that maybe they cast him because they felt he'd do a good job in the role? And calling Mos Def

Don't kid yourself, he's the required Token Black Guy.
I don't really approve of having actors that look nothing like the character's past known appearance, but in the good ol' Land of the Free (tm), if you don't have a prominent black character, your movie is labelled racist and you get lots of angry people protesting it.

What I want to know is: Is this movie starting in england, or in the U.S.A.?
If it's the latter, the character's name should be Ford Escort. If it's in the states and he's named Prefect, I take this as the travesty, not the fact that he's black.

P.S. I don't know who Mos is, I looked at his website, nothing rings a bell. Maybe he's a good actor (I hope).
P.P.S. I hate the racist right, and I hate the racist left, but I hate unecessary changes to a story made by marketing people even more.