# Can't Wait -- The Douglas Adams Biopic Opens Next Weekend \[42\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 6, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-wait-the-douglas-adams-biopic-opens-next-weekend-42/655012 "2013-04-06T13:44:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-wait-the-douglas-adams-biopic-opens-next-weekend-42/655012/1 "2013-04-06T13:44:11Z")
Wait, what? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-wait-the-douglas-adams-biopic-opens-next-weekend-42/655012/2 "2013-04-06T13:53:58Z")
Care to share any more info? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-wait-the-douglas-adams-biopic-opens-next-weekend-42/655012/3 "2013-04-06T14:29:15Z")
I can’t think of many writers whose lives make very interesting material. Ian Fleming, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-wait-the-douglas-adams-biopic-opens-next-weekend-42/655012/4 "2013-04-06T16:39:50Z")
what it? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-wait-the-douglas-adams-biopic-opens-next-weekend-42/655012/5 "2013-04-06T17:02:37Z")
IMDb and Google seem to know nothing about any Douglas Adams project of any kind since the HHGTTG film and the Dirk Gently TV series over five years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-wait-the-douglas-adams-biopic-opens-next-weekend-42/655012/6 "2013-04-06T22:22:47Z")
There is a movie called _42_ coming out soon which is not about Douglas Adams. ---
**Author:** ![Frumpy\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Frumpy\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frumpy_Jones)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-wait-the-douglas-adams-biopic-opens-next-weekend-42/655012/7 "2013-04-07T02:38:08Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > IMDb and Google seem to know nothing about any Douglas Adams project of any kind since the HHGTTG film and the Dirk Gently TV series over five years ago. Wha? Dirk Gently TV Series? When Where? What name? Must see! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-wait-the-douglas-adams-biopic-opens-next-weekend-42/655012/8 "2013-04-07T14:06:22Z")
\*\*\*Dirk Gently \*\*\*was on the BBC from 2010 to 2012. There were not many episodes. Adams’ fanbase largely decried it, mainly because Dirk was not the person he was in the books, occasionally going into sudden, wildly hysterical fits of rage. It could have been much better. It should have been much better. (And somewhere, in one of the myriad universes, it has been. This just isn’t the one.) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-wait-the-douglas-adams-biopic-opens-next-weekend-42/655012/9 "2013-04-07T14:22:06Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > There is a movie called _42_ coming out soon which is not about Douglas Adams. Well, that’s just blatant false advertising then…