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Ask 'Hitchhiker's Guide' Exec. Producer Robbie Stamp

Posted by timothy on from the time-to-get-the-hang-of-thursdays dept.

After nearly three years of waiting, the movie version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is almost upon us. I've been impressed with the casting, and with the trailers I've seen of the film -- enough that I'm taking the rather unhappy early review posted the other day with a large grain of salt. Now's your chance to ask whatever you'd like of Robbie Stamp, the film's executive producer; we'll pass on to Robbie some of the best questions and publish his answers as soon as he gets them back to us. (As usual, please -- confine yourself to one question per post.)

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  1. Great Timing! by Relic+of+the+Future · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about doing another interview after we've seen the movie?

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    1. Re:Great Timing! by GoodbyeBlueSky1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Why? Everybody here is clearly already an expert on the movie which they have never seen and yet are so sure it will suck.

      The movie could turn out brilliant and the trolls here will still complain about the towel reference from page 140 that, unforgivably, is not in the movie.

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  2. Re:I disagree.. by Golias · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but is unnecessary for the overall gag: namely that the notice was on "public display" in a very unpublic place.

    No, the joke is 100% that it's a comedy of excess.

    There's nothing funny about a "public display" document being inconvenient to get at. That's what most of us call "everyday life."

    However, a "public display" document in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in the back of a disused lavatory with a sign on the door which says "beware of the leopard" is fucking hilarious.

    Taking it out would be like re-editing the last reel of The Blues Brothers so they would only be chased for five miles by two or three cop cars. The scene would be shorter, cheaper, still contain everything "needed" to tell the story, but it would not funny.

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