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

it's still gouda

martin freeman is appearing in the new hitchhikers movie unfortunately disney is going to produce it

gouda?

baby bels are a type of cheese known as gouda....it's dutch in origin

I can't wait for the new Hitchhikers movie to come out, no matter who produces it. I hear it's a-gonna be gouda!

well atleast it's being made in britain but i fear without Douglas it may lack some of the originality

well, it's not entirely without him - he did write a pretty complete screenplay as I understand it...

and if you don't know already, a good site for news is http://douglasadams.se

cheers for that but unfortunately i cannie access external sites>

Guessing the beeb isn't external?

No, I think the point is that http://douglasadams.se is external to the BBC, and therefore out-of-bounds; it's a digibox thing, I think.

And just to be really nice, here are some juicy bits of information copy'n'pasted (I should probably post this somewhere more relevant, but what the hey, it's weekend, the forum's slow anyway). A you can see, it's not exactly "being produced by Disney", it's more accurate to say that the funds are coming from a company that Disney owns (Spyglass)


"About a year before he died, Douglas completed his last draft of the screenplay..."
"...a little production company named Hammer & Tongs, consisting of two bright and funny fellows named Nick Goldsmith and Garth Jennings. A successful production team they have been making videos for bands like REM, Supergrass and Fatboy Slim, and also had a lot of attention for their commercials. And, also important; their studio is located not far from Douglas' house in Islington!"

Douglas' brother on visiting the set: "I had suspected that I might see things on the set/in the art department that wouldn't be my "image" of that scene, not my take on that situation, and sure enough there were a couple. What I did not expect was to leave feeling so comfortable inside that this film is in safe, or should I say the best hands."


Cast:
Arthur Dent.... Martin Freeman (The Office, Love Actually) OFFICIAL
Ford Prefect.... Mos Def (The Italian Job, Confederency of Dunces) OFFICIAL
Zaphod.... Sam Rockwell (Charlie's angels, Galaxy quest) OFFICIAL
Trillian.... Zooey Deschanel (Elf, Almost famous) OFFICIAL
Marvin.... Body : Warrick Davis (Willow, Harry Potter,...) OFFICIAL [he's the "little person" or whatever midgets want to be called these days; thre's a picture doing the rounds of a costume with a head about as big as its body...]
Marvin.... Voice : Stephen Moore (Marvin from the radio & tv series) [unconfirmed]
Slartibartfast.... Bill Nighy (Love Actually,...) OFFICIAL
Prosser.... Steve Pemberton (The league of gentlemen,...) OFFICIAL

Director: Garth Jennings (from Hammer & Tongs)
Screenplay: Douglas Adams; Karey Kirkpatrick (also sceenwriter for Chicken Run, James and the Giant Peach,...); Garth Jennings

Producers: Nick Goldsmith (Hammer & Tongs); Roger Birnbaum & Gary Barber (chairmen of Spyglass); Jay Roach (Director for Austin Powers, Meet the Parents)

Executive producers: Robbie Stamp (Douglas'friend and Digital Village former CEO) [that's Digital Village as in the original owners of h2g2, by the way]; Douglas Adams; Derek Evans and Jon Glickman (Executive vice president and President respectively of Spyglass)

Design for guide entries : Shynola (british animation collective)
Design for Marvin suit and Vogons : Jim Henson's Creature shop (Dark crystal, Lost in space, Cats and Dogs,...)

*wonders how we got talking about the h2 movie in the first place, and why crazyhorse's post was replying to such a random point in the thread *

Yeah, we really ought to get back to the topic of cheese. Or just food in general. Had a lovely bit of goats cheese earlier...
BTW re. your poached egg question, IM, you need to use really fresh eggs to stop the white going everywhere. Then you won't need to poison it with unreasonably large amounts of salt.

Do you eat cheese with your poached eggs?

Disney aren't that bad! Look at the great job they did on Pirates of the Caribbean!!!

*looks*

HELLO!

I LIKE CHEESE!

BOB

::Ignores all backlog since Poets::
Morning all!

*cough, splutter and uuurrrgh*

Is it?

It is for me!!

What have you been upto?

You are far too happy the morning, giving s all over the place!


I feel really, really ...*cough**sniff* and my throat hurts too...