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

If you were going to remake h2g2 as a TV series/movie - what would you do with it?
Who would you cast and as whom? Would you stick with any of the original cast, or maybe just give them the odd walk-on cameo?
Would you rely on computer generated imagery for any effects, or would Zaphod's other head look pretty much lifeless?
I'd be interested to know what you all think.

Fred../

i'd do it really badly i expect, but i would at least let trillian wear some clothes.

and the mice would get a way bigger part

i'd definately out seth green in it because he's just great.


maybe he could be trillian..........

robbie coltrain as marvin the paranoid android......

I can't help wanting Humphrey Lyttelton (Jazz Trumpeter, and Chairman of I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue) as the voice of the Book.
He seems to have the right sort of gentle, comedy voice.

Arnie as Arthur
Sly Stallone as Ford Prefect
Michael Caine as Mr Prosser
Britney Spears as Trillian
Michael York as Slartibartfast
Tom Hanks and Deep Thought
Dale Winton as the Vogon Captain
Ronnie Corbett as Marvin
and Chris Rock as the voive of The Book.

Liam.

Would he fit inside the costume?

Anyway - I think Jack Dee would make a better Marvin.

substitute the airheaded american who played the part of trillian
with the lady who played Kochanski in Red Dwarf.

alec.

which version of kochanski? not chloe annett pleeeease!

find it hard to think of anyone but the original cast. not counting trillian of course....

Cloviscat...

the second Kochanski of course, not the first one with the
dreadful scots accent.

alec.

Why on Betelgeuse would anyone want to remake The HGTTG?

AlecT - forgive me for wishing to reverse your opinion... irrevocably if possible!

How about Graham Norton as Arthur, Boy George as Ford, Dale Winton as Zaphod, Debra Messing as Trillian, Jerry Springer as the host at Milliways and Julian Clary as "The Book"... It could open it to a whole new audience...

...also, i doubt if the chap who played the part of Ford Prefect
could have found his way to the A1 in real life...he was most dissappointing, fluffing all his good lines.

The original RADIO cast were far superior to the FILM cast, even though it was mostly the same people.

(Ken Campbell being the exception to the above generalisation)

...just realised that Ken was ALSO in the radio series.

Er...whilst we're here, did anyone else see his production of
the guide at the ICA on Pall Mall ??
Must have been in the later seventies (last century)

alec.

Yes Peet, and we'll have Dame Edna as Fenny and Lilly Savage as Trillian?

joey from 'friends' as zaphod

I was thinking maybe Rik Mayall for the role of Zaphod, or at least for the role of one of Zaphod's heads at any rate.
I suppose, with our wonderful computer assisted special effects, it would be possible to have each head played by a different actor.

"Rik Mayall and Ade Edmunsen as Zaphod" has a nice ring to it...