Uh-Oh

[Redheaded Doomsayer]

Holy freakin hell!!!!  They are actually making a Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy movie!!!!  I don't whether to be excited or worried!


DON'T PANIC

[Ben]

Um, that movie was made in like the 60's or something.  You've been watching too many time travel flicks.

[Horab Fibslager]

dude, that was the series, nto the movie.

the movie has been in pre-pre-pre-production for decades, as revealed in the salmon of doubt.

[Bob the Mediocre]

There's also a radio show I heard part of once. It was the part where the whale falls to the planet.

[Horab Fibslager]

radio show came first, then whiel teh radio show was still in production the books began coming out.

i've sen the series, well teh first episode. it was a sin against humanity.

[Bob the Mediocre]

Let's hope the movie isn't.

[Horab Fibslager]

it couldn't possibly be as bad as teh television series. trust me.

[Bob the Mediocre]

Good. I know to avoid the TV version now, too. Thanks.

[Redheaded Doomsayer]

No shit, saw the tv series, and listened to the radio one as well and both were severely depressing.
>shrug< Was sitting in the theater today to watch National Treasure and they had a preview for it.  Between my mother and I we laughed loud enough to get kicked out.

[gnimbley]

The radio show rocked when you were driving home late at night
in the late 1970s (or so) from making sales sales in three or four
states and you flipped around the radio dial (because you didn't
even have a cassette player in your car) and you discovered this
really weird radio play that almost caused you to drive off an
overpass because it was so damn strange and funny.

Sales calls suck. So did the tv series. I have some of the
radio play on cassette. It still rocks.

[East Coast Hustle]

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!  IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ THE BOOKS, DO NOT YET READ THIS POST!!!!

















I know that Mos Def is playing Ford Prefect, and I'm ok with that, but does anyone know who's been cast for any of the other major roles? and is it just covering the first book or is it condensing the entire series into one movie, with the whole Trillian vs. Trillian at the end?

 

[Redheaded Doomsayer]

Haven't heard anything yet about the cast.  I just hope Leonardo Dicaprio isn't a part of it.

[agent compassion]

I heard it's being made by Disney. This can only mean one thing...

Tom Hanks as Arthur Dent, and Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, and Ford Prefect too.

[East Coast Hustle]

Ford Prefect = Mos Def.

dunno about the rest of the cast, but if they got anyone other than Johnny Depp to play Zaphod Beeblebrox, I will have to firebomb someone...

[Schweinepriester G.]

Haven't heard anything yet about the cast.  I just hope Leonardo Dicaprio isn't a part of it.

If there is a scene where he spends hours (literally) in an poetry appreciation chair appreciating vogon poetry it might get a good movie.