What if Douglas Adams does not die?

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The difficulty for me with the Hitchhiker Movie, apart from the singing Dolphins theme song etc ideas that were “close but no cigar” moments is that they were trying to condense four books into one.

I’d have loved to have sat down to a series of Hitchhiker Movies, each progressively getting more insane than the last.
:p
 
The first time I watched it, when I was like 8 (or whatever), I lol'd so bad at Marvin.

It wasn't until much later that I read the genius of his books (online).

Edit: So no movie if he stays alive cause o' costs?
 
The difficulty for me with the Hitchhiker Movie, apart from the singing Dolphins theme song etc ideas that were “close but no cigar” moments is that they were trying to condense four books into one.

I’d have loved to have sat down to a series of Hitchhiker Movies, each progressively getting more insane than the last.
:p
Um... what?

The film was the equivalent to the first book. Changed, but they never got to the Restaurant... so... yeah.
 
What we really should be asking ourselves is:

What if Peter Jones had a bit more to live?

I still can't listen to the tertiary through quintessential phases of the radio drama because of the voice of the book.

To me, Peter Jones was/is/will be the book.

Cheers
 
Um... what?

The film was the equivalent to the first book. Changed, but they never got to the Restaurant... so... yeah.

I think he's referring to either the 81 BBC version or the 89(?) version while you guys are talking about the new one.

I think without him dieing we'd see at lest Resturant at the End of the Univerise and So Long and Thanks for all the Fish or Mostly Harmless done and wrap up with those.

I swear every time i read HG it's been changed... ;)

Oh and he helps write some of the more memorable episodes of the new Doctor Who
 
I think he's referring to either the 81 BBC version or the 89(?) version while you guys are talking about the new one.
What '89 version? And no, he is clearly talking about a film, not a TV series.
I think without him dieing we'd see at lest Resturant at the End of the Univerise and So Long and Thanks for all the Fish or Mostly Harmless done and wrap up with those.

I swear every time i read HG it's been changed... ;)

Oh and he helps write some of the more memorable episodes of the new Doctor Who
This all makes sense...
 
um...i thought there was a second TV version done later...I've got the '81 one on dvd, but when I was in middle/high school my friend that got me into it had one that (might have been the '81 one) looked a lot different, Ford Prefect and Zaphod both seemed to be different actors and some of the graphics seemed better...but i could be wrong...
 
um...i thought there was a second TV version done later...I've got the '81 one on dvd, but when I was in middle/high school my friend that got me into it had one that (might have been the '81 one) looked a lot different, Ford Prefect and Zaphod both seemed to be different actors and some of the graphics seemed better...but i could be wrong...
Oh! OK, I haven't heard of that... can't seem to find anything about it online.
 
From Wikipedia:

Other television appearances
Segments of several of the books were adapted as part of the BBC's The Big Read survey and programme, broadcast in late 2003. The film, directed by Deep Sehgal, starred Sanjeev Bhaskar as Arthur Dent, alongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the voice of Marvin, Stephen Hawking as the voice of Deep Thought, Patrick Moore as the voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd Pack as Slartibartfast, and Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish as Loonquawl and Phouchg.
 
From Wikipedia:
Other television appearances
Segments of several of the books were adapted as part of the BBC's The Big Read survey and programme, broadcast in late 2003. The film, directed by Deep Sehgal, starred Sanjeev Bhaskar as Arthur Dent, alongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the voice of Marvin, Stephen Hawking as the voice of Deep Thought, Patrick Moore as the voice of the Guide, Roger Lloyd Pack as Slartibartfast, and Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish as Loonquawl and Phouchg.

cool....i knew i wasn't crazy :D
Ah... I see. Well, that's a bit more recent than 1989!

OK, I obviously didn't see it at the time
 
Moving this in another direction.. I'd like to think Douglas would've been approached to write for the new Doctor Who series.

Goodness knows whether he would've said yes, or what sort of story he might have submitted, but wouldn't it have been interesting to see?
 
Considering by some of the work he actually did do for Doctor Who (The Pirate Planet comes to mind) it would have been awesome.
 
Maybe it's just me, but Douglas Adams seemed to get more serious over the years. I suspect he'd be spending as much time on environmental activism as on writing these days.

More trivial observations: I also suspect he would have long ago convinced the world that Jimbo Wales of Wikipedia fame is a two-bit plagarist.
And I think the movie would have been better with Douglas Adams on the set, but the whole idea of a HHGTG movie is a pretty shaky one. The books are not describing a film at all. As his biographer, A.J. Simpson, said: "He was very much making it up as he went along. Beginnings, middles and endings is what all good stories should have. Well, Douglas was great at beginnings. He was pretty good at middles. He couldn't do endings... mainly because by the time he got to the middle, he'd thought of another really good beginning and he wanted to go write that instead of doing the ending..." You can get away with that on TV, but not in a film.
 
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