Hitchhiker movie . . .

[Shippou-sama]

So it seems that they're finally making a movie of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." I know they've been trying to make one for decades now, but they've got a definitive cast down (including the "extra" from GalaxyQuest as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and the actor who played Willow and Wicket the Ewok as Marvin).

Regardless, I was just wondering if anyone else knew about this and/or cared.

[basey44]

theres already a movie, i remember seeing it like 10 years ago on cable tv. its an english movie with lotsa puppets and stuff cos there wasnt any computer generated graphics in movies back then

[Lefty]

Wow I've been hearing roumors for like years about this being made. It's like the Don Kihote film for Sci Fi.

[Souryusen]

Holy shit... Warwick Davis as Marvin???? Man... this is big.... er... little! Man! The only thing that would make this even more bad-ass is if they made Marvin a midget robot.

[Raven]

This should be awesome, hopefully. Now I have to read the book again.

[basey44]

no u dont, cos u can watch the old movie of it i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

man i dont think anybody believes me that it exists and ive seen it i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif
it was on the channel UKTV on foxtel in australia.

[Raven]

Yeah, this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081874/) would be the one you're talking about. The new movie will be much better hopefully.

[Shippou-sama]

http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/hitchblog/blog.html

One of the bottom stories is Warwick Davis in the Marvin suit, and yeah, he's a midget. In fact, he reminds me a bit of the old short round Tom from Toonami. =P

And the new movie should be MUCH better. =D

[Mae]

I haven't actually seen the old movie myself, but I hear it was awful..... I'll have to check the new one out.

[HimizujinEternia]

There's a movie of the greatest book of all time, the director is a huge fan of the series, and much of the screenplay was written by none other than the great douglas adams himself and you're asking if I CARE?!??! This is the ONLY new movie from next year that I can't help but salivate over! I cannot WAIT for this one!

[KaneInferno]

Originally posted by: basey_69
no u dont, cos u can watch the old movie of it

man i dont think anybody believes me that it exists and ive seen it
it was on the channel UKTV on foxtel in australia.

Hey don't worry, for the longest time I didnt believe shippou-sama when he told me there was a live action tv special about ewoks. After seeing that I'll believe you.

[Shippou-sama]

HAHAHA!

Yeah, "Caravan of Courage" with that little blonde kid. *shudder*

Sure, I'll believe that you saw it. I am curious, though, as to whether you saw a movie of it, or the TV show (that was actually based on the radio show).

[Trip]

The 'old movie' was a 6 part TV series.

Also, if you've never heard the radio version I'd highly recommend it, it was done before the books (done in the late 70's), there is currently a third (new) series being broadcast on the BBC:

Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/index.shtml)

the last episode airs this thursday i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif

[Shippou-sama]

I gotta say, I read the book first (I'm currently reading the rest, but I had only finished the first one). I've listened to some of the radio shows, and I'm not really a fan. They're still good, but I like the way the book presented it. *shrug* I haven't seen the TV shows, though.

And thanks for the link, that's great! =P

[Stoopider]

I don't think it would be good.

Hitchhiker was only good because of the way the author wrote it.

[Assassin]

woot! thats great news!

i've read teh first part, and im waiting for teh rest of it. i put it on hold at my local library a month and a half ago, and its still "in transit"...stupid old ladies.

anyway, stoopider makes a good point. half the comedy of the book was the descriptions from the nararator and stuff. it wont be easy trying to display that visually. still, i hope they do a good job....and that they dont deviate from the books.

btw, that link with the marvin constme...y is his head so big. look kinda wierd.

[HimizujinEternia]

I have faith that the movie can handle it. After all, much of the screenplay WAS written by Adams himself.

[Himura_san]

I'm finishing the 3rd book and I don't know how they are going to pull it off, alot of the humor comes from a narrative perspective so if they remove that then they will remove most of the comedy.
To me it's just another good thing that hollywood will take a shit on.