Expectations on the Remake?

[Yuki-Onna Reed]

What I'd really like them to do is digitally insert Douglas into the bar scene. You know, for a touch of nostalgia. Tribute.  

[Syllie]

If the movie makers go all out in special effects and trying to make it as real as possible, they fail...

The whole magic of the Hitchiker's Guide is that Douglas Adams was trying to write as cheesily as possible...He admitted it somewhere, I don't remember where. eek

Seeing how it's Disney, they might go all out in order to boost their ratings...Little do they know they will faiill!!! twisted  

[Tinnumir]

Spike_Theta

What I'd really like them to do is digitally insert Douglas into the bar scene. You know, for a touch of nostalgia. Tribute.

That...is...THE greatest idea I've ever heard. That would be the greatest tribute to the man ever. Someone should write them a letter before it's too late.  

[GrandScheme]

Douglas Adams wrote the original script. It can't not be good. Besides, I'm happy with what they've presented to us so far.  

[Yuuki Gunn]

Syllie

If the movie makers go all out in special effects and trying to make it as real as possible, they fail...

The whole magic of the Hitchiker's Guide is that Douglas Adams was trying to write as cheesily as possible...He admitted it somewhere, I don't remember where. eek

Seeing how it's Disney, they might go all out in order to boost their ratings...Little do they know they will faiill!!! twisted

ok first:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30473

Second: DNA wasn't trying to write cheesily, he was trying to make a satirical Radio Program. He was making a satire of Sci Fi books (Deep Thought is just like Microvac or AC in Asimov's story "The Last Question"), movies (Many a sci fi movie is made fun of via, the babel fish) and shows (Doctor Who mostly, infact Doctor Who was the insperation for much of HHGG, and he took some characters and plots for his later things, such as Dirk Gently, from his Doctor Who Scripts).

Third: DISNEY IS ONLY DISTRUPITING IT!! They have no creative control over it at all. In fact, Spyglass Entertainment was funding the production the entire time. Spyglass is a affilate of Disney, yes, that justs meens Disney makes Spyglass's paycheck.  

[Yuki-Onna Reed]

Tinnumir

Spike_Theta

What I'd really like them to do is digitally insert Douglas into the bar scene. You know, for a touch of nostalgia. Tribute.

That...is...THE greatest idea I've ever heard. That would be the greatest tribute to the man ever. Someone should write them a letter before it's too late.

Either that, or they could swipe the scene about "even the trees were a mistake and we should never have left the ocean". xd

Seriously, I think I'll register over at imdb.com and drop a thread in the HHGG message board, I bet someone there can take care of the fine details. Fun reading over there...that's where I got the idea of wearing those Swedish gummi fish in my ear. whee Also funny was a suggestion that the marketing department would find a way to blow up the Earth on Thursday, April 27, by way of promotion. xd  

[GrandScheme]

Spike_Theta

Tinnumir

Spike_Theta

What I'd really like them to do is digitally insert Douglas into the bar scene. You know, for a touch of nostalgia. Tribute.

That...is...THE greatest idea I've ever heard. That would be the greatest tribute to the man ever. Someone should write them a letter before it's too late.

Either that, or they could swipe the scene about "even the trees were a mistake and we should never have left the ocean". xd

Seriously, I think I'll register over at imdb.com and drop a thread in the HHGG message board, I bet someone there can take care of the fine details. Fun reading over there...that's where I got the idea of wearing those Swedish gummi fish in my ear. whee Also funny was a suggestion that the marketing department would find a way to blow up the Earth on Thursday, April 27, by way of promotion. xd

I don't think any of the people who really work on the movie visit and/or take suggestions from the people on imdb.com. So far I've only seen frauds there, anyway.
Plus, considering how much seems finished in the trailer, I don't think they could really throw in any more details at this point, especially since the movie's set to release in less than two months...  

[Yuki-Onna Reed]

Yeah, but it is a wider audience, and those people are gonna tell other people, and those people are gonna tell other people, and eventually it's gonna reach the right people. Because I'm too lazy to track down who, exactly, are the right people myself. xp

Actually, I'm too lazy to even go over there and register, much less post. So I guess the idea dies here.

But still, they should have done it. gonk  

[GrandScheme]

Meh. I don't know -- I don't even think it would be a good idea, legally, for them to take a fan's suggestion. It could result in a law suit. It would have been nice, but I don't think we could have gotten it to "the right people".  

[Yuki-Onna Reed]

GrandScheme

Meh. I don't know -- I don't even think it would be a good idea, legally, for them to take a fan's suggestion. It could result in a law suit. It would have been nice, but I don't think we could have gotten it to "the right people".

Not this fan's idea! I wouldn't sue them, I'd love them and squeeze them and buy them fried chicken! blaugh

Oh well. It's their own fault for not thinking of it first I guess. xp  

[Static Panda]

Well..
When the book was describing the girl, Trillan.. Or.. Trillian.. I forget, anyway, when it was discribing her, didnt it say she was tan?

The movie does not have her as a tan woman. Damnit. I wanted a hot tan woman, like the one I imagined in my mind as I read.

Also, I imagined him with two heads on both sides. Side by side. Not two faces on one head. Wtf is that?  

[Marisynos]

I think it's more likely that the original Tricia (The trillian-tricia, not the newscaster-tricia) was not tan... I would have to look it up... but she was a super-smart Astrophysicist for Adams' sake... People that smart don't know what the sun is (beyond being a gaseous flaming mass to look at in telescopes)! even people that are just kinda geeky don't know what the sun is!

i kid, i kid. i'm one of those geeky people who never sees daylight when she doesn't have to, anyway.  

[demoneyesdeeper]

They do have another 5 books to get it right on. <3  

[Tinnumir]

DemonEyesDeeper

They do have another 5 books to get it right on. <3

I read in an article that though there are 5 other books, they'll only make at most 2 more if any.  

[Yuuki Gunn]

What some of you are forgetting is that if the movie if a movie version of the book then they lose entiraly, but it won't be. There will be more vogon related plot, and some new stuff. Look, every incarnation of the Guide is different, it as never been done the same way twice, do some research on this. Read the book, watch the miniseries, listen to the radio show, and play the game before you go see the movie. There all different! It's apsurd to think that your view of Marvin will be in the movie, who cares if Zaphod's second head is under his neck? No one should, take this movie and a continuation of a tradtion, not a remake. It can't be a remake if it's never been done before. And when it comes as a movie, follow what the Guide says in those large, Friendly Letters and: Don't Panic.