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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim': [QB] Hitchhiker's Guide, May 2005, finally! <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy.html">Teaser trailer at apple homepage ass we speak</a> I like Martin Freeman (Arthur Dent) a lot, from his work in "The Office" and also "Love Actually". Bill Nighy is also in there, and I liked him tremendously in "Love Actually" and fairly in "Underworld", I think he has a lot to offer in the "sardonic satire" category of HHGTTG, the character of Slartibartfast must be rather fitting for him. Why the chose Warwick Davis to play Marvin the Android I don't get, I thought he was rather normal-sized. It's not like Davis has a history of playing cynical, sharpwitted and cloy characters before, I would've expected something like Alan Rickman. Oh God how I would've liked Rickman as Marvin... I've never seen Mos Def (Ford Prefect) in anything before, I'm slightly sceptical since my image of Prefect is a red-head, freckeled guy with bright blue eyes and a wide smile, sort of a Tintin-on-speed. I also read HHGTTG in the original english so I imagined Prefect talking in boy-school british ("'ere we are, lad, put this fish in your eah!"). I hope he doesn't fuck it up. I felt Sam Rockwell was great in "Confessions of a dangerous mind" and "Green Mile", I sense he will take Zaphod Beeblebrox's overinflated ego to new heights. John Malkovich is stated as playing a "Humma Kavula", I don't remember that character but he'll probably pull it off in his usual, professional self (lol wtf!). That's all the names I recognized from the cast list ass of now. I so hope they make the Vogons look like they did in that beautiful HHGTTG comic book series I read (in 1999 I think, anyone?). There, the Vogons were tall, fat, green and scaly, with beady little black eyes, like dolls' eyes. What I do know is that they'll be CGI (Mak Wilson is credited as "voice" of Captain Jeltz) so there's hope. Ok, so it is being made by Disney, so all the really good parts of Douglas Adams' lewdness, playful humor about couples, sex and innuendo may be watered down to wholesome american levels, but maybe the gist of the book(s?) will survive. Though if the producers have edited Fenchurch out I will slaughter their families. What I don't know if this movie will be all four books in one (four-hour movie?) or if they will do three/four movies. I hope the latter, if they could churn out those happy-jolly Potter movies they should damn well do this. Now that I think about it, large parts of the "Hitchhiker"-story were sad and fateful, with a lot of philosophizing and theories about heavy subjects (though at the same time tongue-in-cheek), I think he even got in a few dry jabs at the meaning of life. Now I'm getting really worked up here. How can Disney possibly do the [i]last[/i] book justice, since this is not at all a children's book and they will most probably try to pitch the movie(s?) as one... It just hit me, I must try to remember Adams' <a href="http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/205/panic.jpg">immortal words</a>. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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