Cast Set For "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"

[Khephra]

Martin Freeman (The Office), Zooey Deschanel and Mos Def top the cast of Spyglass Entertainment/Walt Disney Pictures' feature version of Douglas Adams' beloved SF satire The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Variety reported. Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith (aka Hammer & Tongs) will direct the movie, which starts shooting April 19 in London, the trade paper reported.

Adams, who adapted his own book prior to his death in 2001, will have a posthumous producing credit, the trade paper reported.

The story centers on Arthur Dent (Freeman), who is whisked off the planet by Ford Prefect (Def), an undercover alien researching The Hitchhiker's Guide just before Earth is destroyed to create a new hyperspace freeway. Deschanel will play Trillian, girlfriend of Zaphod Beeblebrox, a two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and current president of the galaxy. That role has still to be cast, the trade paper reported.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-01/29/11.00.film

[Az]

1. w00t!

Bout freaking time. Oh please let the committee rewrite raiders stay clear of this one.

[CaptainClark23]

2. Don't Panic!

Thanks for this, Khephra, best news all day.

Here's crossing fingers they don't feck it up. Maybe seeing Jackson's work on LOTR showed that it can be done right and will inspire adherence to the original.

[Khephra]

3. I'm happy to have helped!

I don't know all the names in the cast list, but it looks like they're going the Harry Potter way and trying to at least cast most of the roles with people from the UK.

[PVnRT]

4. Mos Def? Intersting choice

Definitely not who I had imagined, but that could definitely work.

[Exultant Democracy]

7. I didn't know that he acted

lets hope they made a good choice.

[Parrcrow]

5. Don't Panic!!!

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[arcane1]

6. sweet! A relatively unkown cast, too, that's a good sign...

and shooting in London! Perhaps we'll be lucky and it won't be an Americanized bastardization, full of flatulence jokes!

:toast::bounce:

I'm dying to see who plays Zaphod!

[Archae]

8. They BETTER get this guy in the cast!!!

If they don't, I will be major league PO'd!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601891/

[arcane1]

9. weird, he's already listed for this...

as our boy Marvin!! :)

[Archae]

10. Exactly!

ONLY he can do it properly.

[dolo amber]

11. Wasn't there another

post a week or so ago, saying someone had already been cast for Slartibartfast? I can't seem to find that info anywhere and was pretty sure I read it here...

Keph? Help? :shrug:

[supernova]

12. Woo Hoo!

Mos Def as Ford Prefect? :wtf: But could work, I suppose.

Thanks Kheph! :D

42.

[Tripper11]

13. Martin Freeman will be brlliant...

if you are a fan of The Office you will know who he is. He has a deadpan delivery at times, good camera presence, and when he looks into the camera after Gareth has said or done something absolutely Gareth, it is priceless!