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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. Re:One question by h0tblack · · Score: 0, Troll

    It doesn't need to be faithful to the book, it needs to be faithful to the concept (which does include the radio plays, books, records, games....). The books were not the first, last or definitive description of the Hitchikers universe.

    Unfortunately I'm wary of how much it will stay true. I've read all the interviews with the people involved, and had hope. I'm still holding out a bit of hope, but now I've seen the trailers and release is coming closer... I'm scared... very scared. This means far far more to me than anything Lucas has done to Star Wars.

    There's no way Mos Def can pull of being a quirky Betelgeusian pretending to be from Guildford.... even if he knew how to act.

  2. Wrong question by GrahamCox · · Score: 0, Troll

    The question is not how failthful to the spirit of the book it is, since it's not the storyline that matters. It's how failthful to the spirit of DNA's WIT it is. From what I read in THAT review, it seems as if that's where the soul of this movie has got lost. Far from taking it with a grain of salt, sadly it rings all too true. So much so that I seriously doubt whether I could even go and watch the movie, for fear that it will taint my H2G2 personal culture. It's been with me for a very large part of my life, in a way I cherish it - for some fucked-up witless yanks to go and ruin it now is not an option.

  3. Still Funny? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did you delete most of the jokes, as MJ Simpson says? If he hates the movie so much, why will I (who loved the books, reading each of them when they were originally published in hardcover) love the movie?

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