Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy

Hecate

Trailer for the new film (out in 2005) online:

http://hitchhikermovie.free.fr/trailer_hitchhikers.avi

- (probably slashdotted out of existence by now)

Rew

Very short but actually very funny.

mike65

Did'nt like the use of music - suugests something blockbuster-ish which is not what HHGTTG should be.

Mike.

Lucutus

Anyone got a mirror?

oeNeo

Tis down. Any mirrors?

Jim

Official Site. No trailer, but the start page is funny.

Rew

Ill have a mirror up in about 10 mins, uploading now...

Jim

Good man.

Rew

Here ya go:

Mirror 1

Mirror 2

echomadman

/me shakes head sadly


YOU BLEW IT UP, DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL

oh wait, that was the other film.


this is going to suck, no two ways about it

Envy

The only good book in that series is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The others are fairly useless, but I assume they'll be made into films too?

Jim

Originally posted by Envy
The only good book in that series is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The others are fairly useless, but I assume they'll be made into films too?

Only if i does really really well. You've no idea how many times a HHGTTG film has tried to be made.

Rew

Originally posted by Envy
The only good book in that series is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The others are fairly useless, but I assume they'll be made into films too?

Thats a bit unfair they are on a slideing scale of amazing to WTF? staring with the frist book at "amazing" and ending with the last one at "WTF?"

Basq

The film could be amazing! ...

... but i do think it's an extremely bad idea to put it in the hands of an amateur director.

The director Garth Jennings only previous directorial project was the video for Blur's 'Coffee & TV' (though i must say this was a great video!!). I'm sure everyone remembers that video with the milk carton.

Oh, and he designed the titles for 'Da Ali G Show' (not something to be too proud of)

But surely this film should have been put in more experienced hands!

(worth a mention: the film does have quite a cast though including Martin Freeman [Tim from The Office], John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell)

Goodshape

I seriously hope this film is good. I read the book first as a wee lad and it's had a profoundly positive impact on my life as a whole

Some of the choices they've made (like Mos Def) don't sound like the best, but from the interviews I've read with the directors and my knowledge of the MTV work, I'm actually quite optimistic.

And aparently the only real 'new' stuff in the film was thought up by Adams himself prior to his death. As Jim... said, they've been working on this for a LONG time.

And the first book isn't the only good one. The rest of them may not be as consistent (and they're a bit repetitive if you're reading them back-to-back I suppose), but there's some stuff in there that you just couldn't do without.

Downloading the trailer now. Hope it doesn't suck :dunno:
(edit: The tagline sucks, the rest of it was OK. Not great though. A little too exciting)

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by basquille
The film could be amazing! ...

... but i do think it's an extremely bad idea to put it in the hands of an amateur director.

The director Garth Jennings only previous directorial project was the video for Blur's 'Coffee & TV' (though i must say this was a great video!!). I'm sure everyone remembers that video with the milk carton.

Oh, and he designed the titles for 'Da Ali G Show' (not something to be too proud of)

But surely this film should have been put in more experienced hands!

And this, ladies and germs, is exactly why you shouldn't rely on the IMDB for all of your movie knowledge, especially when you start getting preachy. It makes you look dumb.

Garth Jennings is not an 'amateur' director - as part of Hammer and Tongs, he's been directing music videos and TV commercials (and short films) for way over ten years.

From his website (tongsville.com), here's a list of some of the things he's done that you might have seen:
Music Videos
Badly Drawn Boy, Disillusioned
Badly Drawn Boy, Spitting In The Wind
Beck, Lost Cause
Blur, Coffee & TV
B.R.A., Bentley Gonna Sort You Out
B.R.A., Theme From Gutbuster
David & McAlmont, Look At Yourself
Del Amitri, Medicine
Eels, Cancer For The Cure
Eels, Last Stop This Town
Fatboy Slim, Right Here Right Now
Fatboy Slim & Macy Gray, Demons
Lamb, B-Line
Moloko, The Flipside
Pulp, A Little Soul
Pulp, Help The Aged
R.E.M., Imitations of Life
Supergrass, Keep On Moving
Supergrass, Pumping Up Your Stereo
Wannadies, Big Fan
Wannadies, Hit
Wannadies, Little By Little

TV Commercials:
Ali G. Show, Titles
BT, Broadband Rhino
BT, Broadband 90 Seconds
BT, Broadband Tekken
ITV Digital, Minute Connection
ITV Digital, Name Check
ITV Digital, Sister's
Milky Way, Zero G.
Orange Mobile, 2 Line
Orange Mobile, Beach
Orange Mobile, Keith
Orange Mobile, Tennis
Orange Mobile, Paperclip

I think he was the perfect, most logical next step in the current trend of music video directors transitioning to the big screen (Spike Jones, Michel Gondry).

One of the things that perked me right up was these images of Marvin's costume. There's a video of Warwick Davis walking about in it here

Rew

More images and a vid here on the offical blog:

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

Jim

I never ever imagined Marvin looking anything like that....but I think he looks pretty fucking cool.

Goodshape

Yea, Marvin's apperance took me by surprise too. Not unhappy with it though - and as far as I'm aware, it's the same voice actor as the radio serious. Which should be classic

"here I am, brain the size of a planet...."

Basq

Originally posted by ObeyGiant

I think he was the perfect, most logical next step in the current trend of music video directors transitioning to the big screen (Spike Jones, Michel Gondry).

The difference is Spike Jones and Michel Gondry took on relatively small projects for their first feature film.

Unlike Garth Jennings who is taking on an adaptation of, in my opinion, one of the greatest sci-fi novels of the 20th Century.

By the way, ObeyGiant, lighten the f*ck up! I don't appreciate being told i look dumb. Had never heard of Garth Jennings before he got signed on to the film and i looked up IMDB to get information on him (to which they had very little)

Preachy?! I was just stating my opinon and on the information i learned from IMDB (which made him look like an amateur director).

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by basquille
The difference is Spike Jones and Michel Gondry took on relatively small projects for their first feature film.

Being the sort of person I am, I'd challenge this statement (although less so in the case of Human Nature). Being John Malkovitch was a very complex film, and could be described as a 'hard' sci-fi film. Not 'small' at all.

But this doesn't mean I don't see your point. I just think your concern is unfounded.

I think it was important that the director fo HHGTTG was:
1. Visionary - able to do something original with the material
2. British - to stay true to the novels
3. Funny and Playful - again, to stay true to the novels

Who do you think would have been a better choice than Garth Jennings?

Originally posted by basquille
Unlike Garth Jennings who is taking on an adaptation of, in my opinion, one of the greatest sci-fi novels of the 20th Century.

Let's not get carried away here.

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by basquille
By the way, ObeyGiant, lighten the f*ck up! I don't appreciate being told i look dumb. Had never heard of Garth Jennings before he got signed on to the film and i looked up IMDB to get information on him (to which they had very little)

Preachy?! I was just stating my opinon and on the information i learned from IMDB (which made him look like an amateur director).

Whoops, missed your edit.

You were stating, as fact, that Garth Jennings "only previous directorial project was the video for Blur's 'Coffee & TV'". This was plain wrong, and since it was presented as fact, came across as preachy.

If it's any consolation, I did concede that it was IMDB that made you look dumb, and not that you were actually dumb

Basq

Originally posted by ObeyGiant

Who do you think would have been a better choice than Garth Jennings?

I, for one, would have loved to see Alex Proyas (of 'Dark City' and 'I, Robot' fame) take on the film.

In my opinion, a very underrated director!

Some of ye are happy with Garth Jennings directing it. Some are not so happy. If you had a choice, who would you want to direct it?

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by basquille
I, for one, would have loved to see Alex Proyas (of 'Dark City' and 'I, Robot' fame) take on the film.

In my opinion, a very underrated director!

If his previous movies are anything to go on, it would have been the darkest, most beautiful, most loveless movie ever made.