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Reasons not to panic:

• Douglas Adams wrote the screenplay
  Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox
  The trailer looks great
  Alan Rickman as the voice of Marvin
  The other trailer also looks great
  Mos Def as Ford Prefect
  And finally, this excerpt from an interview with director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith:

Quote:

Q. Are you worried about premiering only a couple of weeks before Star Wars Episode III? Do you think you'll be steamrollered or do you think Hitchhiker's is a good counterpoint to Star Wars?

GARTH: I'm not worried at all. Hitchhiker's is going to have Lucas quaking in his boots! (does George Lucas wear boots? He should. Big, red thigh high boots with spurs and golden toe caps. And a Fez. Don't you agree?)

NICK: I'm just worried about Garth.

:D:D
I think these guys have the right attitude to bring this unique book to the screen.

I'm really looking forward to this one. I have my DVDs of the BBC TV Series but I'm open to a new interpretation!

Oh, another plus:
Bill Bailey as the Sperm Whale.

I almost started a thread on this! I grew up with H2G2.

It's either going to be great or its going to suck. I just hope the mainstream American audience gets the humor.

PS - Anyone play Starship Titanic? Hilarious stuff!

PPS - Douglas Adams went to Cambridge, so it must be full of clever witticisms, humor and hidden deep and meaningful allegories.

I can't wait for this, either! I'm a huge fan of the books--I think it's the best satire ever written, but that's probably just my usual hyperbole. The movie looks to have shaped up well. The Internet-only trailer was fantastic, and should have been the theatrical trailer, IMO!

Loving the interview excerpt.

Bit worried about Mos Def as Ford Prefect. As I said on TORC, my vision of Ford was a young Eric Idle wearing a scarf.

*~Pips~*

I'm assuming everyone noticed the time on the clock when Arthur wakes up in the trailer?

It's funny, though... all the stuff in the trailer seem to not be from the book... my purist sense is tingling...

Of course, since DA wrote the screenplay before he died... I guess I can't complain

This trailer I found SO much better than the main one.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchston ... edium.html

That. Just. Rocks!

Lidless' trailer I mean...

I guess Doug Adams made changes and added characters after the books were written. Wasn't there a new character in the radio show? oops that should have said TV show. When writing the screenplay, he added stuff too. I will find the link and edit this post.

So, how to be a purist?? You'd have to know what changed AFTER Doug Adams died!


I said I would edit this post...



This is a fan site......
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjs2000/movie.htm

Will the film be faithful to the novel?
No – because Douglas Adams did not want it to be. The novel of Hitchhiker’s Guide was very, very loosely adapted from the original radio series. The TV series was also very, very loosely adapted from the radio series, and so were the LPs, the computer game and the stage play. All these versions differ in very significant ways, often contradicting each other. The film will also contradict all these versions. The script being used is all Douglas Adams-created material – Kirkpatrick has merely tidied up the screenplay into a filmable form – but it is not a literal adaptation of the novel and features major new characters and events.

Who is in the cast?
The confirmed cast is as follows:
Arthur Dent: Martin Freeman (The Office, Hardware, Love Actually)
Ford Prefect: Mos Def (The Italian Job)
Zaphod Beeblebrox: Sam Rockwell (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Galaxy Quest, The Green Mile)
Trillian: Zooey Deschanel (Almost Famous, Elf)
Slartibartfast: Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Still Crazy, Shaun of the Dead)
Mr Prosser: Steve Pemberton (The League of Gentlemen)
Body of Marvin: Warwick Davis (Return of the Jedi, Leprechaun)
Questular, Vice-President of the Galaxy*: Anna Chancellor (Four Weddings and a Funeral)
Humma Kavula, ‘crazed missionary’ on the planet Viltvodle VI*: John Malkovich (Dangerous Liaisons, Shadow of the Vampire)
A Vogon Guard: Jerome Blake (The Phantom Menace)
role unknown: Simon Jones (Arthur Dent in the radio and TV versions of Hitchhiker’s Guide)

* New characters created for the movie by Douglas Adams


And I found a year-old blog of script co-writer, Karey KirkPatrick.
http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/hitchblog/interview.htm

KirkPatrick : "(and I don’t think we have the rights to any new material created specifically for the TV show, so for that reason, I never watched it. Do you hear me BBC? I NEVER WATCHED THE TV SERIES). "

I agree Lidless. That's the internet-only trailer I mentioned above. And I said it before and I'll say it again: that definitely should have been the theatrical trailer!

I love the idea of Alan Rickman (a favourite of teh sylly one's) as Marvin. He can do brillaint bored, sarcastic tones.

nl

Lidless,
If you want a larger version of that trailer, click the link on the official site that says "Click here to watch the new exclusive trailer! Available only online!"
Which is what I think Wingy was talking about.

My husband and I were in line to check out in Best Buy, and the HHGG trailer came on, and the clerk kept calling us forward to check out... but we said we couldn't, because we hadn't seen this trailer yet! She grumbled and then pointed out we could watch it on a different monitor and still check out at the same time.

Yes, we are excited about this!

And it couldn't happen in a better year, either. I turn 42 this year! :D

Me too. This Sunday. hint E*'s already going around calling me Lidless4242.

Fear my all-pervading influence.

:cheers

*~Pips~*

I'm not 42 for some time, so obviously all those other coincidences are merely that...

I am so looking forward to this movie! I told my boss about it, and showed her the trailer at work, and she decided she has to go see it too.

HGTG is on my top five favorite books. I got the all-in-one book, of all five books and the short story, for my anniversary.

So far it looks very promising.

<K. goes back to looking for her babelfish>

-Kushana

If you download the really large trailer, and pause it repeatedly during the really fast parts, you can see all kinds of fascinating stills that are hard to catch at normal speeds. At one point, there is even a scene composed of dolls shown. Very odd, that one!