# HHGTtG coming to Hulu **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** disney-hulu\ **Created:** [July 24, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579 "2019-07-24T23:57:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/1 "2019-07-24T23:57:33Z")
[Source](https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-tv-show-is-heading-hu-1836671266). As a reminder, the Guide was described as having a 3 inch by 4 inch screen and lots and lots of buttons. Of course they’ll update it so that it is more than essentially a first generation Kindle with Wikipedia access… ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/2 "2019-07-25T12:01:44Z")
Grouchy old man time: Of all the things they could do, this is one of their worse options. I feel like each iteration just gets worse and worse. Also, you’re turning into a penguin. Stop it. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/3 "2019-07-25T12:09:45Z")
This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/4 "2019-07-25T12:37:39Z")
We’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/5 "2019-07-25T21:55:30Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > We’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys. Oh, go stick your head in a pig. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/6 "2019-07-25T23:26:31Z")
Oh, no. _Not again_. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/7 "2019-07-26T00:07:27Z")
You boys behave, or I’ll start reading some of my poetry to you. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/8 "2019-07-26T00:19:17Z")
Resistance is useless. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/9 "2019-07-26T07:19:06Z")
I’m at least mildly intrigued by the idea. If they had to choose a time to put it on television, you could do worse than an era when television is a prestige format. And if they found a way to punch up _So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish_ and _Mostly Harmless_, by which time Adams was kind of running on fumes, I would certainly welcome that. I am curious to see who they decide to cast. ---
**Author:** ![BeagleJesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5daacb/32.png) [@BeagleJesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeagleJesus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/10 "2019-07-26T12:07:17Z")
Can we start a petition to have Mos Def reprise his role as Ford Prefect? I thought he was damn near perfect in the role. And when I say “we” I really mean can somebody else do it so I can be lazy? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/11 "2019-07-26T13:07:45Z")
> [@BeagleJesus](#): > > Can we start a petition to have Mos Def reprise his role as Ford Prefect? I thought he was damn near perfect in the role. Oh, you sassed that hoopy frood? ---
**Author:** ![BeagleJesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5daacb/32.png) [@BeagleJesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeagleJesus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/12 "2019-07-26T16:57:09Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Oh, you sassed that hoopy frood? Full Disclosure. I thought for hours on an acceptably nerdy response to this and the best I could come up with is this: Yes I herby concede this nerdy shit talking session. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/13 "2019-07-26T17:09:26Z")
> [@BeagleJesus](#): > > Can we start a petition to have Mos Def reprise his role as Ford Prefect? I thought he was damn near perfect in the role. > > And when I say “we” I really mean can somebody else do it so I can be lazy? I only managed to sit through it once but I seemed to remember not being to impressed. Not horrible like Sam Rockwell as Zaphod but not great. What needs to happen is Stephen Fry must be the voice of the Guide. And Alan Rickman must be brought back to life to be Marvin. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/14 "2019-07-26T18:17:33Z")
Can’t we all just pretend the movie didn’t exist? It was made by people who didn’t understand why the book/radio play was good. Possibly they didn’t understand comedy. Personally I feel like a TV series is the best way to adapt the Hitchhiker’s trilogy (does “and another thing” count in the trilogy or are we holding at 5 books?) anyway. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/15 "2019-07-26T18:18:37Z")
I love both the movie and the old BBC series. I don’t see why we need another version, especially one DA has had no hand in. But I’ll give it a shot when it comes out, and I’ll expect it to be at least watchable. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/16 "2019-07-26T18:22:41Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > Can’t we all just pretend the movie didn’t exist? It was made by people who didn’t understand why the book/radio play was good. Possibly they didn’t understand comedy. > > Personally I feel like a TV series is the best way to adapt the Hitchhiker’s trilogy (does “and another thing” count in the trilogy or are we holding at 5 books?) anyway. Douglas Adams wrote the screenplay for the movie, so you can’t say it was written by people who didn’t understand the source material. And the BBC series already exists, so I can tell you from experience that a TV series is a better format for this than a feature length movie. Nevertheless, the movie was pretty good. It was inferior to the books/radio/TV show mainly because it was shorter. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/17 "2019-07-26T18:35:46Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > What needs to happen is Stephen Fry must be the voice of the Guide. No, no, no. I understood the choice of Fry as the best available option for the Voice, but it was always going to be the odd case. For Peter Jones just **is** the Voice for those of us to whom the film was just a Johnnie-come-lately affair. And they surely had vastly enough audio of him in the part to easily use in the film. Bad call. > [@](#): > > And Alan Rickman must be brought back to life to be Marvin. While I absolutely agree on this. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/18 "2019-07-26T18:39:54Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > Douglas Adams wrote the screenplay for the movie, so you can’t say it was written by people who didn’t understand the source material. And the BBC series already exists, so I can tell you from experience that a TV series is a better format for this than a feature length movie. Nevertheless, the movie was pretty good. It was inferior to the books/radio/TV show mainly because it was shorter. I can and I will because it’s the editing and casting, not the script, that is the problem. Actually the cast on the whole wasn’t terribly, but some of it really was. They keep stepping on punchlines with their cuts, or cutting out punchlines. It’s really rough. I own the BBC version. It’s great. It has proper timing too. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hhgttg-coming-to-hulu/837579/19 "2019-07-26T23:30:55Z")
I first heard it on the radio and believe that each subsequent iteration sucked more than the last, including the first book.