*intwestin'* Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and Martin Freeman will star in the Spyglass Entertainment/Walt Disney Co. adaptation of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY for Hammer & Tongs. Mos Def will play Ford Prefect, an alien disguising himself as an out-of-work actor who sets out on an intergalactic journey with his best friend, mild-mannered earthling Arthur Dent, played by Freeman. The duo hitch a ride through space with the two-headed president of the galaxy, the beautiful and brilliant scientist Trillion (Deschanel) and a depressed robot while on a quest to discover the meaning of life. I've never read the books, but I hear they are funny and brilliant. I don't know if Mos Def can carry his own flick tho. He's great with ensembles like the Italian Job. But from the looks of it it'll be fairly low budget. I'll probably end up seeing it, if it actually gets made.
see, now, THIS is good news. excellent work, mr. valentine.
the books are definitely worth reading. superb wackiness.
Yeah I read one that book a while ago but I still remember that it was funny.
oh my goodness!!!!!!!!!!! this is such exciting news. i love mos def and the parts of the book that i've read are absolutely hysterical. i'm kinda interested to see how it's going to turn out on film because there's just random things that happen in the book. like pudding falling onto someone's head.
I am extremely happy about this. I just finished reading the books for the second time, and heard about this earlier today. I am SO there. I think it's pretty interesting that Disney is involved...not what I'd expect.....but I'm sure the movie will rock, just the same.
Only twice? I can't count the number of times I've read these books.
additional bit A big-name actor is hitching a ride on a much-awaited adaptation of a Douglas Adams novel — Confessions of a Dangerous Mind star Sam Rockwell has signed on for a role in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Rockwell will play two-headed alien Zaphod Beeblebrox, who also happens to be the president of the galaxy and an intergalactic thief (he's absconded with one of the most expensive spaceships ever built). Beeblebrox and Earth scientist Trillian (Zooey Deschanel) encounter Ford Prefect (Mos Def), an alien studying the Earth, and Arthur Dent, a benign Earthling, when the latter duo flees the planet just before it's demolished.
The long-in-the-works flick is set to begin filming in April, under the direction of Garth Jennings. Karey Kirkpatrick rewrote the original script written by Adams, who died in 2001.
i wanted to see confessions of a dangerous mind very badly but it being rated R prevents me. i wanna see if it goes on tv. probably comedy central where they won't edit anything.
umm, if they won't edit anything...then what's the point?
That's an oxymoron.
i think she was exaggerating. comedy central has minimal edits. i thinks theres a total of 4 words you ca't say. and no nipples either.
NEWS on the progess of Hitchhikers Guide
http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17578
MAY!!! May, people, MAY!!!!!!! :)