h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Final fantasy team doing CGI? it would take a centuary and they'd probably go bankrupt!

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I think Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", Reggie in Becker) would make an excellent Trillian.

Yeah but, we should keep the cast British!!

I don't see why the cast should be entirely British. I also don't believe for one second that, in a movie being produced by Disney in the US, you will get an exclusively British cast. Nor do I think it appropriate.

The range of characters in the film would be hampered by all being cast as British. Too much sameness for characters which are from different planets, let alone countries.

Whilst the character of Arthur IS (and MUST be) British, the Ford character is not, the Zaphod charcter is definitely not and Trillian could go either way.

But I don't want to see another dizzy blonde in the role. The actress in the series was a major disappointment, as far as I'm concerned.

What about the director? I reckon Terry Gilliam??

How about Mark Moxon getting his directors debut !!!!

good idea pity about the actors
if it does come out when and where will we be able to see it
do tell we must know and inform the masses

I think it should be directed by Paul Reubens with a cast of unknowns
of indeterminate sex and the voices should be done like an animated film.
I'm worried about Marvin and Slartibartfast.
and the book will probably look one of those palm piglets, but with fins and stuff.
And if it's an American prod, they'll probably yank the whole cricket motif and shove Robin Williams and Janeane Garofolo (sp?) in just to make it marketable. And some shmuck from 'Friends', too.

Well, the book is British, and Ford was 'from Guildford' after all

However he wasn't really, so an american doing an imitation should pass.

Quite, but Trills has to be British - she comes from Islington after all...

I think Rooster would be good with a strong American accent!

No reason why not - I just always saw him as an Aussie....

I hate to disagree (Again!), Argon, but you're only assuming that Trillian is British. Is she from Islington? The book states ONLY that Arthur MET her (and Zaphod - a.k.a. "Phil") at a party in an Islington flat. It does not say that it was her flat.

Also, she is described as "slim, darkish, humanoid, with long waves of black hair, a full mouth, an odd little knob of a nose and ridiculously brown eyes." It goes on to say that "she looked vaguely Arabic". No mention that I can find of her definitely being British.

This is all taken from the original book. If you can find any further info about her from the rest of the trilogy, please tell me.

Hmmm... What about her Phone No.??? And that "it was either that or the dole queue again on Monday"?

Both of which imply living (at least) in Britain....

Oh and (darn I'm going ot have to type this out ) "...within those thirty seconds are 2 to the power of 267709 to 1 against....is also the telephone number of an Islington flat......" this no. then turns out to be Trillians (actually I surmise that as the book doesn't actually say that it is only that peoples lives are ruled by telephone nos.)....

It only says that it's the phone number of the flat where Arthur and Trillian met.

I think Jim carrey would be better as zphaod.

he is a good zany character

NO, me thinks that us researchers have already had this conversatio...
we DO NOT want Jim Carrey!
(no offence)
Sorry

Well, seeing as the radio play is really the definitive version, I think that as the cast were all English, the actors in the film should also be English (with the exception of Zaphod).

No Jim Carrey - funny guy, but in this film? I don't think so.

I don't know why . . . but I always pictured Ford Prefect as looking like Gene Wilder . . .

*ducks in case anyone sees fit to throw tomatoes*


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