Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy [Archive]

Artimus Gigan

01-22-2004, 02:40 PM

Lord Dalek

01-22-2004, 02:46 PM

I think this would make a great AS Comedy original, with the five books from the misnamed trology they could make a few seasons out of it. The animation style though I'd say somthing similar to Home Movies, or they could go to a much higher animation quality similar to Futurama.
The BBC owns the rights to HGTTG (translation: BBC America would get it), and the Adams estate wants a live action movie before anything else. Although if they can get Simon Jones and Geoffrey McGivern to star, I'll watch.

Artimus Gigan

01-22-2004, 02:54 PM

Lord Dalek

01-22-2004, 02:55 PM

Wasn't there already a LA series on HHGTTG?
No, they only adapted episodes 1-6 of the radio show.

Lord Dalek

01-22-2004, 03:21 PM

And a radio series too.

I think a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy animated series might just be too geeky even for Adult Swim.

Besides, there would be too many comparisons to Futurama.

EDIT: DAMN YOU DALEK! Don't finish your reply before I do ever again!
You dare chalenge the british tv-pimp! You over estimate your chances! Anyway, a animated HG2G has as much chance of getting made as an animated Red Dwarf.

Scythemantis

01-22-2004, 04:08 PM

No such thing as too geeky.

It's definately better suited for an animated series. I doubt they could pull off all of it in CG effects or fit enough of it into even five or six movies.

Smitty

01-22-2004, 04:37 PM

Anyway, a animated HG2G has as much chance of getting made as an animated Red Dwarf.Or a Red Dwarf feature film. ;)

Btw has it even started filming yet? I've heard rumors.

-cs™

Lord Dalek

01-22-2004, 04:39 PM

Or a Red Dwarf feature film. ;)

Btw has it even started filming yet? I've heard rumors.

-cs™
The production seems to be at the same position it was three years ago.

Jaguar

01-22-2004, 04:40 PM

The BBC owns the rights to HGTTG (translation: BBC America would get it)

True, but afterwards it would most likely be shown another network as well (like Ab Fab and other britcoms).

bassist

01-22-2004, 04:46 PM

1 word: Neverwhere.

I went Newbury Comics in Boston over winter break and they had a BBC version of Niel Gaiman's Neverwhere. If ever there was something to be animated (since I think the Sandman's been discussed before and I'm sick of it), it should be Neverwhere.

And I still stand by my idea for a new 1 hour long highlander animated series.

Lord Dalek

01-22-2004, 04:51 PM

1 word: Neverwhere.

I went Newbury Comics in Boston over winter break and they had a BBC version of Niel Gaiman's Neverwhere.
Neverwhere was always a TV series. Like DNA and Grant Naylor, Gaiman reworked it as a novel later.

And I still stand by my idea for a new 1 hour long highlander animated series. A new Highlander eh? Would it be featuring Quentin Macloud by any chance?

RTFirefly

01-22-2004, 06:15 PM

H2G2 could make a decent animated series. A few years back they started adapting them to comic book format, and that artwork style worked well with the material. If they could do a "Clerks" and adapt that comic style to animation...

Parallax

01-22-2004, 06:15 PM

No. It doesn't seem like a "AS" show to me. Even so, through the whole book I was thinking "Futurama". >_<

kaine23

01-22-2004, 06:24 PM

I have the DVD of the old BBC mini-series of this. It's definitly chessy, low-budget fun!

42.

VinceA

01-22-2004, 07:19 PM

HHGTG is one of my favorite book series. I saw the miniseries on Public Television years ago (while I was still living with my parents & sister - it was at least 20 years ago since it was before I could drive) and bought the DVD set the second it came out. Not sure if it would make a good animated series but I'd watch it if it were made.

PS: I've still got my "Don't Panic" button from the InfoCom HHGTG adventure game....

Lord Dalek

01-22-2004, 07:20 PM

I've still got my "Don't Panic" button from the InfoCom HHGTG adventure game....
Thats as cool as (if not cooler than) my towel!

Mynd Hed

01-22-2004, 07:21 PM

If they could sort through the legal issues and get the rights, it could be great. I doubt a Home Movies style animation would suit a sci-fi series, though, and Futurama-type animation would probably be too expensive for CN, especially for a niche project like this. What would be REALLY cool would be if they got Genndy to work a little magic on it-- something similar to the Clone Wars shorts would be perfect.
Maybe they could work out a deal where CN produced it, BBC aired it in the UK, BBC America got first dibs in the US, and CN got to air each episode a week or two after BBC America. Since not too many people get BBC America, it probably wouldn't cut into CN's ratings too terribly much, so it seems like a win-win situation to me.

It's a pipe dream, of course, but isn't it a pleasant one?

I think a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy animated series might just be too geeky even for Adult Swim.No such thing. As for Futurama comparisons, the humor styles would be pretty different-- Futurama is mostly into pop culture parody (mainly of sci-fi) with some original plot elements, whereas HGttG is much more focussed on original plot elements with almost no specific parodies of other sci-fi shows, books, films, etc. As long as character designs and such were also different enough (not too hard to do-- I doubt anyone would want bug-eyed overbited characters in the Matt Groening style in a HGttG cartoon) the comparisons could be kept to a minimum.

Lord Dalek

01-22-2004, 07:24 PM

I think the humor of H2G2 is just too british for the non-anglophile AS audience to get. I believe DNA had a similar problem while writing SLATFTF and MH.

bassist

01-22-2004, 08:20 PM

PS: I've still got my "Don't Panic" button from the InfoCom HHGTG adventure game....I've got that, the 5 and 1/4 in disks for the commodore 64, AND the commodore 64 itself! Good times, those... good times...

Perhaps Terry Pratchett would be a better auther to animate off of than Douglass Adams. Similar sense of humor, and Discworld has already had two cheaply animated games (not including the CG Noir that never reached the US).

guinaevere

01-22-2004, 09:08 PM

The BBC owns the rights to HGTTG (translation: BBC America would get it), and the Adams estate wants a live action movie before anything else. Although if they can get Simon Jones and Geoffrey McGivern to star, I'll watch. They've been working on that movie, or working on working on that movie for well over a decade and a half now. If it ever happens, it will be a miracle. But I'm with you on Simon Jones & Geoffrey McGivern!! My favorite still is 12-part the radio programme (which I finally archived to CD, yay!).

I went Newbury Comics in Boston over winter break <SNIP> WAAAAAAAAAaaaaaahhhhh!! Sorry. Newbury Comics is one of the 7 things I miss about New England. And I do miss it. A lot.

RD!

01-22-2004, 09:08 PM

Even so, through the whole book I was thinking "Futurama". >_<

...no? I mean, other than man in a new (seemingly) futuristic place... no?

Stripe

01-22-2004, 10:48 PM

Um... guys, about the movie; AICN posted some casting rumors and a model of evryone's favorite paranoid androind: Marvin, you should check it out.

PS- Futurama is in no way like Hithhikers!

Futurama is kind-of a pop culture satire/ social satire using the future as and exagerated version of the present.

While HGTTG is like..... uh... um... Doctor Who on acid?

Yuss

01-22-2004, 11:13 PM

Hitchhiker's the movie is actually moving along now. It's been in limbo for years, but it really is happening now. They've cast Arthur (Tim from The Office) and some other characters and they're going to be filming soon. They're aiming for 2005. I'm looking forward to it.

Keep in mind that all adaptations of Hitchhiker's have stemmed from the radio series. The movie won't be based directly on the books, it'll be an original adaptation of the original series. It'll be different and it won't deal with the later books. It'll likely just be up to the Restaurant part. Unless they decide to keep going. Which would be awesome if the movie is. I really can't wait for the movie. It could be terrible, but I have a good feeling about it.

ANYWAY. I like the idea of a cartoon. I think it could work well; someone would just have to do something original with it. I could imagine a Clerks or Futurama style or some unholy mixture. But something original would be cool.

ANYWAY.

~B+:

wrenchien

01-22-2004, 11:20 PM

really, i doubt it. honestly. they may have an animated movie, but i doubt that douglas adams's estate would consider animating this series in any way , especially for american television.. that wouldn't have been his way to make stuff teenagers and kids would have read, or watched.

if anything, the dirk gently series shouldn't be made into a cartoon, either. but they should make a movie out of it.. who wouldn't think viking gods weren't cool enough to make a movie about? or time travel?

RTFirefly

01-23-2004, 12:42 AM

Perhaps Terry Pratchett would be a better auther to animate off of than Douglass Adams. Similar sense of humor, and Discworld has already had two cheaply animated games (not including the CG Noir that never reached the US).They've already made Discworld cartoons, as miniseries on BBC. I'd give my right lowercase J for an American release of these.

As I understood it, the Discworld games were based off the cartoons.

Ben

01-23-2004, 04:34 AM

It's not that Hitchhiker's Guide is too geeky for CN, it's that it's too witty to be made into a cartoon. Once you get past the wildly improbable (I hesitate to say impossible) premises, situations, and characters, the behavior of the characters themselves is actually quite mundane. And that's the funny part. You have situations like being inside a magazine office that's being carried off to the Frogstar, with a terminally depressed android left behind and told to stall a giant, powerful military robot sent looking for a man who is hiding in an alternate universe...

And the depressed robot complains to the other robot about how his friends treat him, and about how all the other robots have better equipment than him.

It's so incredibly anticlimactic you can't help but laugh. But I don't think it'd be well-suited to animation, whose forte is movement and dynamic behavior.

lostrune

01-23-2004, 08:51 AM

It wouldn't be animated for AS because we humans are the stupidest creature in the universe. :p

Lord Dalek

01-23-2004, 01:17 PM

And mice are the smartest creatures on Earth, but I've never seen a mouse watch cartoons.
Ah, Belgium! Those crazy mice...

Mynd Hed

01-23-2004, 01:35 PM

And mice are the smartest creatures on Earth, but I've never seen a mouse watch cartoons.
I still maintain that dolphins are smarter, but I might be biased because they gave me this neat-o fishbowl.

What?

NewLib

01-23-2004, 05:29 PM

Really good series of books but maybe a bit too slow for TV viewers

Lord Dalek

01-23-2004, 06:08 PM

Really good series of books but maybe a bit too slow for TV viewers
It was made into a TV series before so it's not THAT slow.

Chris Wood

01-24-2004, 03:29 AM

They've already made Discworld cartoons, as miniseries on BBC. I'd give my right lowercase J for an American release of these.

The 2 Discworld animated series have been released on DVD. You can pick them up at Amazon.

Lord Dalek

01-24-2004, 12:01 PM

I've just had a thought. Why not air the DW internet serial Scream of the Shalka. Each episode is only 15 minutes (sans commercials) and the animation and voice acting is really good.

RTFirefly

01-24-2004, 01:38 PM

I've just had a thought. Why not air the DW internet serial Scream of the Shalka. Each episode is only 15 minutes (sans commercials) and the animation and voice acting is really good.
I agree wholeheartedly (as you may have guessed.) However, if that were ever going to happen, it probably wouldn't be for a long while. The BBC is still offering a higher-quality version of Shalka on UK pay television. Given their track record, any American showings would probably be limited to the BBC America channel.

But, American Dr Who fans are quite used to waiting for things, aren't we?

Lord Dalek

01-24-2004, 01:42 PM

I agree wholeheartedly (as you may have guessed.) However, if that were ever going to happen, it probably wouldn't be for a long while. The BBC is still offering a higher-quality version of Shalka on UK pay television. Given their track record, any American showings would probably be limited to the BBC America channel.

But, American Dr Who fans are quite used to waiting for things, aren't we?
Indeed, it took us fifteen years to get the show in the first place, and by then most of the episodes had been burned to cinders.

Delthayre

01-24-2004, 02:12 PM

I'm not sure it would be well recieved by the Adult Swim audience. In fact, I'm very certain that large swaths of the people who watch Adult Swim would think it was a lot of silly rubbish.

I'm sure someone would complain about the flash animation, even though I think it was rather good, if a bit stiff.

Ah, niche.

Lord Dalek

01-24-2004, 02:17 PM

RTFirefly

01-24-2004, 04:47 PM

While Shalka's animation may be stiff by tv cartoon standards, it's really good for a web toon, its original format. If that aesthetic was taken a step further, maybe into a continuing series made for tv they would really have something Swim-worthy.

Heh, Dr Who cartoons made for Adult Swim. A total pipe-dream, but a nice one...

Lord Dalek

01-24-2004, 05:08 PM

Who cares if it's animated in flash. HM is in flash and it hasn't bothered anyone yet. And from what I've heard the animation for the upcoming second story is much better.

Delthayre

01-24-2004, 08:51 PM

Who cares if it's animated in flash. HM is in flash and it hasn't bothered anyone yet. And from what I've heard the animation for the upcoming second story is much better.
Well, I did rather like Scream of the Shalka (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/shalka/)'s animation. It's the web-medium that really limited it. Flash is just a tool, for the most part, it's a matter of how it's used. I'm afraid posting animation on the internet is somewhat like trying to whittle balsa (or some really awful wood, I'm not up to snuff on whittling-related analogies).

I've often though it might be an interesting project to create animation, good and well detailed animation, to accompany the soundtracks for the lost episodes. As far as I recall, the audio for every episode exists regardless of the state of the visuals. Though budget would probably kill the idea.

But I think it'd be a flop on AS, nonetheless. Doctor Who is, like the HHGttG, something you have to be either British or very strange to really enjoy. Likewise, both, though HHGttG to a much lesser degree, is also something you have to be a particular kind of geek or a Brit to accept.

I'm sure here, on the wilds of the internet, a non-representatively high proportion of people may fit this category. But in a vast wideness of television, such folk would be too far and few to make it a success. Not an unlovely dream though, not unlovely at all.

bassist

01-24-2004, 10:03 PM

I agree that Doctor Who is not something that's fared especially well in the US (though I have several Doctor Who Choose Your Own Adventure books), but it's wrong to think that neither Scream of the Shalka nor HGttG (Hitchhiker is one word, or if you prefer HH, it would be HHkGttGly just to get all the syllables in) would be successful enough for AS. Monty Python's style of humour (spelled British style to make a point... well not really, I just felt like it) is widely popular in the US, and Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Neil Gaiman have all enjoyed tremendous success as writers. Hell, Agatha Christie has been popular for ages.

If you think about it, the same target audience of AS (as it stands now) would be the people British humour gets through to. It would make perfect sense for these enterprises to come to AS if anywhere, and the only reason they wouldn't or shouldn't is because of stereotyping, a terrible government, and an opressive BBC with thier silly required accent. Screw journalistic integrity! I want to be hearin me some o'dat good ole provincialized speech.

Lord Dalek

01-24-2004, 10:05 PM

Well, I did rather like Scream of the Shalka (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/shalka/)'s animation. It's the web-medium that really limited it. Flash is just a tool, for the most part, it's a matter of how it's used. I'm afraid posting animation on the internet is somewhat like trying to whittle balsa (or some really awful wood, I'm not up to snuff on whittling-related analogies).

I've often though it might be an interesting project to create animation, good and well detailed animation, to accompany the soundtracks for the lost episodes. As far as I recall, the audio for every episode exists regardless of the state of the visuals. Though budget would probably kill the idea.

But I think it'd be a flop on AS, nonetheless. Doctor Who is, like the HHGttG, something you have to be either British or very strange to really enjoy. Likewise, both, though HHGttG to a much lesser degree, is also something you have to be a particular kind of geek or a Brit to accept.

I'm sure here, on the wilds of the internet, a non-representatively high proportion of people may fit this category. But in a vast wideness of television, such folk would be too far and few to make it a success. Not an unlovely dream though, not unlovely at all.All true sadly. Brittish humor is far too sophistacated for the average Inu Yasha viewer's hardwired little brain to cope with.

EDIT- The BBC did use flash to reconstruct the first five minutes of Marco Polo.

Delthayre

01-24-2004, 10:16 PM

EDIT- The BBC did use flash to reconstruct the first five minutes of Marco Polo.
Yes, I noticed that (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/clips/marcopolo.shtml) a few weeks ago myself, but I think it's a bit silly looking. Sort of a weird Yellow Submarine look. I had something more visually sumptuous in mind. Which is why, of course, it'll never be done.

Lord Dalek

01-24-2004, 10:18 PM

Yes, I noticed that (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/clips/marcopolo.shtml) a few weeks ago myself, but I think it's a bit silly looking. Sort of a weird Yellow Submarine look. I had something more visually sumptuous in mind. Which is why, of course, it'll never be done.
I had an idea for reconstructing the finale of Evil of the Daleks 7. But every time time I thought of it, it seemed too much like an episode of Happy Tree Friends.

Artimus Gigan

01-25-2004, 12:00 AM

All true sadly. Brittish humor is far too sophistacated for the average Inu Yasha viewer's hardwired little brain to cope with.

Are you saying I'm above average then?

Lord Dalek

01-25-2004, 12:14 AM

Are you saying I'm above average then?
Well you like WHR. That's a start.

RTFirefly

01-25-2004, 01:03 AM

Yes, I noticed that (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/clips/marcopolo.shtml) a few weeks ago myself, but I think it's a bit silly looking. Sort of a weird Yellow Submarine look. I had something more visually sumptuous in mind. Which is why, of course, it'll never be done.The only thing worse than a really bad Flash animation, is a really bad Flash animation converted to low-quality RealVideo.

RD!

01-25-2004, 01:42 AM

Are you saying I'm above average then?

I don't see how he could mean anything different!!!

Then again, you're no dolphin or mouse...

James

01-25-2004, 01:48 AM

Although if they can get Simon Jones and Geoffrey McGivern to star, I'll watch.
David Dixon surely.... never understood how anyone could rate Geoffrey over David. I know many do, but I always found McGivern to be dreadfully flat as Ford. I though Dixon gave it some zest which I always perceived Ford to have on occasions.

I don't think I could bare a cartoon/flash HHGTG - the TV series did the most unique visualisation of the radio play - I've never seen anything else top it. Leave it be IMHO... :)

Lord Dalek

01-25-2004, 06:37 AM

David Dixon surely.... never understood how anyone could rate Geoffrey over David. I know many do, but I always found McGivern to be dreadfully flat as Ford. I though Dixon gave it some zest which I always perceived Ford to have on occasions.

I don't think I could bare a cartoon/flash HHGTG - the TV series did the most unique visualisation of the radio play - I've never seen anything else top it. Leave it be IMHO... :)
There's one flaw with the TV-series: no Nutramat scene. Although if you think about it, it would have been impossible to get 2,000,000 robots into Television Centre and not look inconspicuous. And if you ask any hard core H2G2 fan who's the definitive Simon, Ford, and Zaphod, they'll say Simon, Geoff, and Mark Wing-Davey.

bassist

01-25-2004, 12:13 PM

This is why the BBC needs a CG department... Down with puppets!!!

Lord Dalek

01-25-2004, 01:13 PM

This is why the BBC needs a CG department... Down with puppets!!!
Oh, they have a CGI department. They're just to busy with shows about dinosaurs to care.

Artimus Gigan

01-25-2004, 10:30 PM

Oh, they have a CGI department. They're just to busy with shows about dinosaurs to care.Yeah buit those dinosaurs are damn good shows....

I really liked the episode with Pod especaly...

Lord Dalek

01-25-2004, 11:21 PM

This may sound off-topic but as I write this post I'm watching H2G2 on my new DVD rom drive! God, I love advanced technology!

Artimus Gigan

01-26-2004, 03:10 AM

This may sound off-topic but as I write this post I'm watching H2G2 on my new DVD rom drive! God, I love advanced technology!Bah I have the Smell-O-Vision laserdisc copy...

Lord Dalek

01-26-2004, 09:31 AM

Bah I have the Smell-O-Vision laserdisc copy...
FOOL! I'LL CRUSH YOU! Any Smell-o-vision release isn't as cool as my Criterion Odorama ver. of Polyester!

bassist

01-26-2004, 11:10 AM

Any Smell-o-vision release isn't as cool as my Criterion Odorama ver. of Polyester!A John Waters vintage Smell-o-vision card as handed out in the theatres would be as cool... not that that's really related, and just merely a fact....

jethrek

01-26-2004, 11:58 AM

I gotta be honest, I didn't care for those Doctor Who flashes, and I like about everything Doctor Who. Just didn't work for me.

As for HGTTG, how can that be too geeky? For a generation people of all ages have loved Hitchhiker's.

Lord Dalek

01-26-2004, 01:14 PM

EightOh

01-30-2004, 04:34 PM

Lord Dalek

01-30-2004, 09:46 PM

While this is sort of off-topic (but relevant to this thread), just thought I'd toss this out there:

Mos Def cast as Ford Prefect (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=filmNews&storyID=4235838)

Interesting...
Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard! What's next, Vin Desiel as the dish of the day?

RTFirefly

01-31-2004, 04:55 AM

Oh, dearydear....

Were DNA alive, that might have killed him.

Scythemantis

01-31-2004, 05:26 AM

Well, when originally reading the books (wait, did I already say this?) I pictured Ford as looking like......Christopher Lloyd.....for serious, I had him pegged as an eccentric old man.

I also pictured trillian a lot like kylie from extreme ghostbusters (this was before that show, though) and Arthur like Lister from Red Dwarf (actualy, I still see him that way. I think the personality at least fits)

Ben

01-31-2004, 06:48 AM

While this is sort of off-topic (but relevant to this thread), just thought I'd toss this out there:

Mos Def cast as Ford Prefect (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=filmNews&storyID=4235838)

Interesting...

Filming next April? I wonder what'll stop it this time. Seriously, I can only take so many false starts.

But that doesn't mean I won't be there opening day, if it ever comes.

Lord Dalek

02-01-2004, 11:34 AM

Here's an item: NPR's got a story about DNA that they'll have online at 10:00 am pacific time.

EightOh

02-01-2004, 12:53 PM

Here's an item: NPR's got a story about DNA that they'll have online at 10:00 am pacific time.http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1624327.html

bassist

02-01-2004, 12:54 PM

EightOh

02-01-2004, 12:55 PM

You just lost me. What does DNA have to do with this topic?Why do cheese doodles perform ancient sacrificial rituals that seem to have no place in modern society?

Lord Dalek

02-01-2004, 01:07 PM

You just lost me. What does DNA have to do with this topic? Are those Douglas Adams's initials? And if they are, stop using them because that's damn annoying for an educated and slightly scientifically organized mind like myself!

Edit: Cheese doodles? Now you've really lost me...Those are Douglas N. Adams initials. It's a sort of tribute the BBC gave the man after his death.

EDIT: And what the hell does this have to do with Cheese doodles?

RTFirefly

02-01-2004, 01:58 PM

His fans have been calling him DNA for ages, the BBC just sort of made it "official."

bassist

02-01-2004, 02:29 PM

See, when I heard DNA, I think Deoxyribonucleic Acid. When I hear DA, I think District Attorney. Either way, I certianly never knew Douglas Adams's middle initial was N.

Lord Dalek

02-01-2004, 02:30 PM

See, when I heard DNA, I think Deoxyribonucleic Acid. When I hear DA, I think District Attorney. Either way, I certianly never knew Douglas Adams's middle initial was N.
Well, to beat a dead horse. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Cactusjack1999

02-02-2004, 01:43 AM

You dare chalenge the british tv-pimp! You over estimate your chances! Anyway, a animated HG2G has as much chance of getting made as an animated Red Dwarf.
They did an animated Star Trek didn't they.

And yes I have the AMERICAN VERSION of Red Dwarf pilot episode someplace on my hard drive.

Imagine taking everything that made red dwarf great and then sending it ot a parallel universe that would be about right.

Delthayre

02-02-2004, 02:01 AM

Well, to beat a dead horse. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.Yes, and for the other half of the battle, you'll probably need a flamethrower and some gum.

Lord Dalek

02-02-2004, 09:37 AM

They did an animated Star Trek didn't they.

And yes I have the AMERICAN VERSION of Red Dwarf pilot episode someplace on my hard drive.

Imagine taking everything that made red dwarf great and then sending it ot a parallel universe that would be about right.
I, too, have seen the horrors of the American Red Dwarf pilot. Happily, the writer has gone to do bigger and better things.

Bubblegum Girl

02-03-2004, 09:26 AM

Lord Dalek

02-04-2004, 10:12 PM

I like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(Even I've read the first book). I was wondering what it would be like if it were an animated series.(I've discovered it was made into a comic book series and a live action tv series)
I've only heard about the comics recently. Does anyone know a place where I can dig up some info about them.

RTFirefly

02-05-2004, 03:11 AM

I've only heard about the comics recently. Does anyone know a place where I can dig up some info about them.
Some scans here (http://www.com-www.com/hhgttg/pix-comics.html).

Lord Dalek

02-05-2004, 10:31 AM

Some scans here (http://www.com-www.com/hhgttg/pix-comics.html).
Arthur Dent looks too much like Rimmer. That is not right.

wednesday luxe

02-05-2004, 08:00 PM

Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard! What's next, Vin Desiel as the dish of the day?
hey man...you never know. Mos Def might actually turn out to be a good Ford...

Lord Dalek

02-05-2004, 09:46 PM

hey man...you never know. Mos Def might actually turn out to be a good Ford...
Zaphod maybe, but not Ford. Thats just not....right.

Ben

02-06-2004, 01:44 AM

I love the comic Zaphod, like a Germanic ideal with three arms and two heads. And Trillian is basically Barbara Gordon in space.

Yuss

02-06-2004, 10:11 PM

See, when I heard DNA, I think Deoxyribonucleic Acid. When I hear DA, I think District Attorney. Either way, I certianly never knew Douglas Adams's middle initial was N.Douglas Noel Adams. He was also born the same year and in the same city that deoxyribonucleic acid was discovered. He played that out a lot.

After thinking about it, I agree that an animated series wouldn't work.

~B+: