Hitchhiker's Guide..

[cevik]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this around here yet, but it appears that Hitchhikers guide has finally begun filming:

http://www.douglasadams.com/news/#20040419-0-n.dna

And here are the "confirmed" cast members thus far:

http://douglasadams.com/movie/

[SurfD]

Call me crazy, but wasnt there already a HHG movie done a while back?

[cevik]

Call me crazy, but wasnt there already a HHG movie done a while back?

There was a BBC series that didn't cover all of the books (it stopped right when things were getting good, IIRC).  But I believe that's it.

Douglas Adams was working on this movie when he passed away.  He's been trying to get this thing made for a long long time.

[Hanzii]

Bad news is they added a completely new supporting character (in a big role)... good news is, that it apparently was Adams who invented the character, when he was working on the script.

[Rodent]

There was a BBC series that didn't cover all of the books (it stopped right when things were getting good, IIRC).  But I believe that's it.

It was also rather poorly made and failed time and time again to deliver anything funny.

[daveNYC]

I thought that it did a good job with the stories in the Guide itself, also the space fleet that gets eaten by a dog bit was well done.  

Who the hell is the Hoover Voover person that Malkovich is playing?

[cevik]

http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html">The official H2G2 website.

[Alrindel]

I thought that it did a good job with the stories in the Guide itself

Yes, that's what I remember best too, the animated extracts from the Guide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/theguide.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/babelfish.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/poetry.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/golgafrincham.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/mice.shtml