Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy

I loved reading the books and watching the TV series.It was a big thing when I was at school.Apparently there is a big budget film version on the way.

I loved the books & the radio series, but was never too keen on the TV series (too much in the way of BBC low budget special effects, as in 'Blakes 7' for my taste)....

Any book that contains the (paraphrased) line:

several billion megatons of fusing hydrogen nuclei dragged itself reluctantly over the far hozizon, and managed to look small, cold, and slightly damp"

is OK by me - I'll keep an eye out for this new series, though; thanks for the heads up.

 The books were hilarious and very clever! Only saw bits of the TV series once or twice, so can't really say....

(Did seem a bit on the cheap side, but perhaps, Jimpanzee, that lent it a certain fitting charm, at times?)

Love the line you quoted! Ha! What a way to describe an English sunrise! 

I agree that it would be very difficult to squeeze it into 1 film. I guess they are just takling the first book/radio series. Then again they managed to pull lord of the rings off.

Im not sure about whos playing who but you can find out on the net most probably.

I can't wait.         & nbsp;  "The other sheltanaks dupleberry shrub is always a more moavy shade of pinky russet!"

will wrote: I agree that it would be very difficult to squeeze it into 1 film. I guess they are just takling the first book/radio series.

Yes. I read a book about never made movies and it quoted Adams with saying they better adapt just the first book. Recently ,I also read an interview with the screenwriter they brought on to finish what Adams left and he agreed with that.

I'm a great moviegoer, I work in a movie channel and I have even evaluated screenplays. And I must say I see the adaptation of this book as a extremly difficult task. Much more difficult that it seems. I hope it all ends well.

The first two books were spot on; bollock bustingly funny and insigtful but after that, it became a little pedestrian for me. Dear old Douglas only wrote one good book after that (IMO) called 'Last Chance to see'.

I've yet to see the new series but any chance to see his work on the TV must be a good thing.

He is very much missed .

Blacksword wrote: The best thing they could do IMO, is to produce 3 or four films covering all the books. That way they could include everything in the books, give us film lovers three or four films to indulge in at the cinema, and of course collect in limited edition box set on DVD six months later.

We can all hope :)

yeah Zaphods other head was pretty rubbish but i think that because of the way HHGTTG is it just added to the humor.

P.S you can hear the new radio series on the bbc 4 website, it has episode 2 at the moment but i think ill download the lot off winmx or something.