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Title: H2G2 cast info
Post by: Kamikaze on January 29, 2004, 09:42:33 pm: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2079307

More information about the casting of H2G2. Apparently shooting starts April.

What do y'all think of the cast? I barely know anything about the actors, so I can't comment on acting ability/style but I don't think that Mos Def looks much like I'd imagine Ford to be.

BTW: On a slightly related note... I found the H2G2 radio episodes on http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?dir=/pub/.arch-download/hhgttg
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Post by: mikhael on January 29, 2004, 10:38:11 pm: I deeply, deeply fear HHGttG as produced by Disney. That said, the casting can't be bad, so long as whomever plays Zaphod is over the top in love with himself, and Arthur is as bumbling and useless as possible.
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Post by: Fineus on January 30, 2004, 04:24:35 am: Oh no... no no no. This is terrible. Disney are talented and all but HHGTTG is a classic, it's already been put into film and audio. They can't do it again.
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Post by: J3Vr6 on January 30, 2004, 07:23:50 am: This book has been on my "Must read" list for years and I never buy it...
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Post by: Nico on January 30, 2004, 07:59:57 am: meh. fanboys are gonna complain again to no lenght, and for no result.
And don't use stupid acronyms in a title, when 2/3 the people will obviously not recognize it :doubt:
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Post by: J3Vr6 on January 30, 2004, 08:16:21 am: True, I had no idea what you were talking about til I hit the link.
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Post by: Gloriano on January 30, 2004, 08:16:39 am: O hope it's good not like many films that primissed they are good but in the end they are B-class movies
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Post by: Fineus on January 30, 2004, 10:50:16 am: Quote
Originally posted by Nico
meh. fanboys are gonna complain again to no lenght, and for no result.

Can you really blame them? Or do you really support the mainstream corporations and the possibility that they might take great literature and rip it to shreds to make it more "accessable" to everyone?

:rolleyes:
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on January 30, 2004, 11:00:28 am: Quote
Originally posted by Nico
And don't use stupid acronyms in a title, when 2/3 the people will obviously not recognize it :doubt:

Yes, but having a title such as "Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy Cast Info" would be obscenely long.
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Post by: Liberator on January 30, 2004, 11:14:49 am: Yes, but you could have also said "Cast info for Hitchhikers' Guide film".
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Post by: Nico on January 30, 2004, 01:04:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kalfireth

Can you really blame them? Or do you really support the mainstream corporations and the possibility that they might take great literature and rip it to shreds to make it more "accessable" to everyone?

:rolleyes:

Do I support? No, I don't care. If I think it's gonna suck, I won't watch it. The very existence of this movie won't ruin the qualities of the book, right? Don't :rolleyes: at me for such idiotic things, thank you.
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Post by: Fineus on January 30, 2004, 01:08:06 pm: Well I'm glad apathy is good enough for you - but having grown up loving things like HHGTTG, I don't want to have to think about some large company slapping an American flag on it and calling it their own creation while the masses stupidly lap it up and think it's original and at it's best. I do agree that there's nothing I can do to change it - but I don't plan on being apathetic either.
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Post by: Nico on January 30, 2004, 01:18:51 pm: What are you gonna do? Rioting? signing petitions? :p
I've grown up with the Lord of the Rings, and I was happy with what came out of the movie. I love Evangelion, and they're planing to do some awful crap with it, but until I've seen it, I'll reserve my opinion ( w/o much hope, granted ). But then again screaming against something you don't even know if it's gonna be good or bad is kindda typical, isn't it?
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Post by: Fineus on January 30, 2004, 01:48:20 pm: Not necessarily, but there's a far cry from LOTR and HHGTTG. LOTR - while incredibly well done - was also fairly straight forward in that everything was mapped out. HHGTTG on the other hand has that unique kind of humor which (not only) makes it what it is - but is hard to duplicate if you arent' the original creator. I guess I'm worried that whoevers creating it will tone things down, or alter them, to make them more accessable to the masses - rather than presenting it as it was meant to be.
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Post by: aldo_14 on January 30, 2004, 03:20:20 pm: Wasn't Douglas Adams working on a nearly-finished draft script anyways?
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Post by: mikhael on January 30, 2004, 06:43:59 pm: This is a serious issue, Venom. What you fail to realize that the books, TV series and game are all adaptations of the RADIO SHOWS. Douglas Adams did all the adaptations. He already had a screenplay before he died. That isn't the issue.

Disney hired someone to rewrite the screenplay. THAT is the issue. This does not bode well.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on January 30, 2004, 07:06:54 pm: Seems it doesn't matter what you do to an author's work once he's dead these days