# "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" film has finished shooting
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 28, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992 "2004-12-28T20:30:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/61 "2005-01-16T02:25:09Z")
Ah. May 6. God, that’s forever away.
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### Author:  [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/62 "2005-01-16T02:31:18Z")
I don’t mean to sound like a Balrog Wing obsessive fan but where’s Zaphod’s extra head and arm?!
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/63 "2005-01-16T06:33:55Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#):
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> I don’t mean to sound like a Balrog Wing obsessive fan but where’s Zaphod’s extra head and arm?!
Well, I’m not supposed to say this, but they’ll be CGI.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/64 "2005-01-16T15:12:00Z")
> [@Michael Ellis](#):
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> Well, I’m not supposed to say this, but they’ll be CGI.
Which is why his pose is so funky. Man, must have sucked having to stand like that day after day.
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### Author:  [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/65 "2005-01-20T22:21:56Z")
Looks like there’s some froody new artwork up. I’d love to have any of [these](http://www.planetmagrathea.com/conceptart.html) hanging up on my wall.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/66 "2005-01-20T23:23:37Z")
The voice of the guide is Stephen Fry
> **[The Voice Of The Guide Is](http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/19179)**
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> Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab Stephen Fry. Which is, in my opinion, pretty damn great as far as casting goes. We got a ton of e-mail about it today, but I wrote to Robbie Stamp, the film's producer, just to...
Brian
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### Author:  [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/67 "2005-01-20T23:41:09Z")
Wow… looks like Marvin was actually just as big as everyone else and not just a tiny robot!
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/68 "2005-01-21T01:01:10Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#):
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> Wow… looks like Marvin was actually just as big as everyone else and not just a tiny robot!
Well not tiny, but that oversized head adds significantly to his height.
I still can’t make out how his leg is going to stand in for any of [these parts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cricketstumpsmswd.png), though.
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### Author:  [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/69 "2005-01-21T01:47:36Z")
There are [42 laws of cricket](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket)! 42! [/american]
Thanks **kaylasdad99** for posting that link. I’d never thought about looking cricket up until I opened that page.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/70 "2005-01-21T02:07:34Z")
> [@N9IWP](#):
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> The voice of the guide is Stephen Fry
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> [http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=19179](http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=19179)
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> Brian
Well, that’s sort of encouraging, actually.
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### Author:  [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2005, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/71 "2005-01-21T08:18:32Z")
> [@](#):
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> Anybody out there know anything else about this? If so, why have you been keeping it from me? Why leave me out of it? I mean, I’ve got my towel and everything.
[Don’t Panic!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=241363)
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### Author:  [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/72 "2005-02-11T04:02:26Z")
[AAARGH! We be scary poet weilding Vogons!](http://filmforce.ign.com/hhgttg/articles/586/586626p1.html)
Man, those are some good looking Vogons aren’t they? I could never succesfully create a image of these guys in my head, so I’m sure glad someone else did and brought them to life. Fine job the costume people did here.
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### Author:  [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/73 "2005-02-11T08:26:41Z")
> [@JoeSki](#):
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> Fine job the costume people did here.
Puppet people I mean.
And that was supposed to be “poem weilding Vogons”.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/74 "2005-02-11T08:28:49Z")
> [@JoeSki](#):
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> Man, those are some good looking Vogons aren’t they? I could never succesfully create a image of these guys in my head, so I’m sure glad someone else did and brought them to life.
You know, I had that problem too. I agree that those look quite Vogonish.
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### Author:  [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/75 "2005-02-11T08:32:53Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> I agree that those look quite Vogonish.
I always thought of the Vogons as looking something like the aliens from _V_, but with more warts. Vogons are supposed to be green!
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/76 "2005-02-11T14:34:34Z")
it looks like their Poetry Appreciation Chair™ technology has taken a few steps down as well, either that, or their PAC’s are all in the shop getting repaired, nowhere in the book does it mention that Ford and Arthur were strapped to Poetry Appreciation Rocks™…
aside from the Vogons not being green, it looks like they pretty much nailed the Vogons
as far as Marvin goes, looks like _someone_ took the line “brain the size of a planet” literally, still, Marvin doesn’t look as _bad_ as i thought he would, i was expecting the entire costume to be Warwick Davis size (head included)
now, if they can just change the appearance of the HOG into something more “running shoe” like and ditch the “Death Star with Riceboy wing” thing…
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2005, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/77 "2005-02-12T08:41:26Z")
> [@Priceguy](#):
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> I always thought of the Vogons as looking something like the aliens from _V_, but with more warts. Vogons are supposed to be green!
> [@MacTech](#):
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> it looks like their Poetry Appreciation Chair™ technology has taken a few steps down as well, either that, or their PAC’s are all in the shop getting repaired, nowhere in the book does it mention that Ford and Arthur were strapped to Poetry Appreciation Rocks™…
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> aside from the Vogons not being green, it looks like they pretty much nailed the Vogons
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> as far as Marvin goes, looks like _someone_ took the line “brain the size of a planet” literally, still, Marvin doesn’t look as _bad_ as i thought he would, i was expecting the entire costume to be Warwick Davis size (head included)
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> now, if they can just change the appearance of the HOG into something more “running shoe” like and ditch the “Death Star with Riceboy wing” thing…
Well, you two have just convinced me with rock solid evidence that this movie will be the biggest piece of shit ever. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2005, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/78 "2005-02-12T10:07:22Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> it looks like their Poetry Appreciation Chair™ technology has taken a few steps down as well, either that, or their PAC’s are all in the shop getting repaired, nowhere in the book does it mention that Ford and Arthur were strapped to Poetry Appreciation Rocks™…
Perhaps we’re to take it this way: Vogon Poetry is to Poetry as Chair is to Rock.
**MichaelEllis** , are we being whooshed here?
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/79 "2005-02-12T13:57:47Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> **MichaelEllis** , are we being whooshed here?
Nope. These minor details that have only been glimpsed in photographs from a film whose trailer hasn’t even been released don’t match up 100% to the novels, so therefore the movie will be awful.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-film-has-finished-shooting/281992/80 "2005-02-12T14:45:15Z")
But the radio series doesn’t match the books, and niether sucked (well, maybe the later books).
Brian
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