The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie

I hear the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie is currently in post-production and due to premiere on May 6, 2005. A bit sooner than I expected. The movie is rumoured to be almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the books.

I have actually only read a Swedish translation of the books, and that was many years ago. While the translation was unusually good, an English edition with all five parts of the trilogy is already in my bookshelf in preparation for re-reading. Probably won't get around to it before the movie, though.

The cast includes Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, Mos Def as Ford Prefect, Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Zooey Deschanel as Trillian, and Warwick Davis inside everyone's favourite neurotic robot, Marvin. It's not officially confirmed, but Stephen Moore will probably do the voice of Marvin (he did it in the radio series and TV show).

Need to know more? In addition to the official website there's this, and H2G2.com has some preproduction design sketches to drool over.

22 December, 2004