Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: film to be released April 29

main details at
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/

Trivia for
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

* The movie was first optioned in 1982 by producers Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck and Michael C. Gross. Douglas Adams wrote three drafts for them per his contract. During this time, Medjuck and Gross were considering Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd to play Ford Prefect, but then Aykroyd sent them his idea for Ghost Busters (1984) and they did that movie instead.

* This film has been in "Development Hell" for over twenty years. At one point, Douglas Adams insisted it would be made "sometime before the last Trump". Just prior to his death, a deal was almost in place with Jay Roach directing and staring Hugh Laurie (Arthur), Jim Carrey (Zaphod Beeblebrox) and the late Nigel Hawthorne (Slartibartfast).

* John Malkovich's character, a religious leader, was created especially for the movie by Douglas Adams.

* This will be ninth version of the "Hitchhiker's Guide". It previously appeared as a radio series, a record album, a novel, a television series, a computer game, a stage show, a comic book and a towel.

* After Jay Roach decided to pass on directing the movie, he brought the property to Spike Jonze. Jonze also passed, but suggested Nick Goldsmith and Garth Jennings (also known as Hammer and Tongs, also soon-to-be former music video directors), who accepted.

* Jack Davenport was considered for the role of Arthur Dent, but in the end it was decided he was simply too good-looking for the role of the ultimate everyman Dent.

* The movie's teaser features Louis Amstrong's "Wonderful World". The song was also featured at the end of the first 6-episode radio series, and the TV version, "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" (1981) (mini).

* Cameo: <, who played Arthur Dent in all prior audio/video versions, including "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" (1981) (mini). Jones was also a lifelong friend of creator Douglas Adams.>

* The producers have stated that this film is not a literal translation of the books (just as the books were not a literal translation of the original radio show), but all of the new ideas and characters came from Douglas Adams himself. The hired writer simply came aboard to improve structure and make the screenplay more coherent.

* The hymn sung by the Jatravartidian followers of Humma Kavula was recorded at St. Martin's Church, Highgate, London on 19 June 2004. The hymn was sung by several hundred untrained members of the public invited to the recording via a call for singers circulated on the internet.

* In a chaotic scene shot in London, fans can spot Douglas Adams's brother James Thrift, sister Jane Garnier and daughter Polly rushing about in the general panic, as the earth is destroyed by the Vogons.

* The original Marvin the Paranoid Android from the miniseries appears in the movie

n/t

My friend and I were just watching tv the other night and saw a spot. We were both excited and both vowed to read the book again after all these years before we see the movie.

The special effects might be good, but it should be funny, and the previews don't look like it will be.

...and I don't really understand why. Not everybody knows what the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is, and those that do might not know it's one of the greatest absurdist stories ever told.

They didn't look funny either. Maybe it's some kind of sick and twisted Hollywood ad-man type of thing?

but I'll watch HHGTTG.

I liked the previews, it looks true to the novel, at least from the clips they displayed.

I thoroughly enjoyed the BBC miniseries, cheap FX and all.

I just hope it does well enough to stay in theaters until I get home at the end of May.

I hope hope hope!

RIP Douglas Adams--Genius

Of course.

(talk about dumb questions)

:eyes:

:-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything

:thumbsup:

encouragement to constantly remake classics.