# Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217 "2003-12-27T03:16:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/81 "2004-01-13T02:46:07Z")
[Comingsoon,net](http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=2973) I really do know I should preview… ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/82 "2004-01-13T04:52:20Z")
[Warwick Davis](http://www.warwickdavis.co.uk/) ? As whom? ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/83 "2004-01-13T19:43:48Z")
I agree with Red that it should be all unknown actors in order to work. Any big-name actor in it other than a very small role or cameo will only screw it up. Just from reading this thread I feel the movie is doomed. (Rowan Atkinson as Arthur?! WTF?!) Plus, Disney owns the rights (as I read in Salmon of Doubt). The movie is double-doomed. And Douglas Adams was such a good human being with such great hope and enthusiasm. The only savior to all this would have to be Terry Gilliam. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/84 "2004-01-14T05:14:26Z")
> [@](#): > > If any of The Restaurant is included, Rowan Atkinson has to play the Maitre d’ and have Ozzy as the rock star. This would be brilliant casting. [quote] Bob hoskins playing Mr. L. Prosser. \*\* Yes, yes, I can _see_ it. Go on! **Johnny Depp…playing them all in a one man show…** Brilliant. Impossible. But, brilliant. Clearly, you’ve been to Singapore. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/85 "2004-02-06T14:38:18Z")
[This](http://www.chud.com/news/feb04/feb5sam.php3) just in. Zaphod has been cast. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/86 "2004-02-06T14:41:21Z")
YES! I CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE! Uh…who the hell is Sam Rockwell? ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/87 "2004-02-06T14:41:49Z")
[I love to look at relevant threads in Cafe Society too](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=237287) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/88 "2004-02-06T14:54:56Z")
None of those links work… am I to take it that Sam Rockwell has been cast as Zaphod? Good choice if so, though I have favoured Richard E. Grant as Zaphod; Depp would also do it well. Tim out of the Office will make a perfect Arthur. Exactly the right bemused, cynical expression. Don’t know Bill Nighy. Please promise me, Hollywood, that you’ll keep Mr Carrey the f\*ck AWAY from this damn movie. ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/89 "2004-02-06T15:38:49Z")
[IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/) lists Mos Def (who was great in the Italian Job) and Zooey Deschanel (who has been great in just about everything that I have seen her in). Martin Freeman, in the immortal words of David Brent – “He’s perrfec.” Tim from The Office is basically Arthur Dent at work. Last movie I saw Bill Nighy in was the abysmal Underworld. Perhaps he will be better in this one. ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/90 "2004-02-06T20:54:39Z")
I used to picture Zaphod as Chong (fro cheech and Chong). That alwaysed seemed right…and then a friend said he always imagined Zaphod as Howard Stern, and that somehow seemed to me to be better. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/91 "2004-02-07T06:27:56Z")
If you look at the other HH thread, it seems the major roles (Arthur, Trillian, Ford, Zaphod, Marvin, and Slartibartfast) have now been cast. Seems like they went for non-major stars, which could be a big advantage. There’s also a new trivia point on IMDb that says Jim Carrey was indeed attached to play Zaphod before Douglas Adams died (with Hugh Laurie as Arthur and Nigel Hawthorne as Slarti), but it fell apart eventually. I’m on the “anybody but Carrey” bandwagon, so I’m cool with that. I haven’t seen any of his major work (I did see Galaxy Quest but don’t have much of an impression of him, which was the point of his character), but I’m surprised to find myself saying this: he looks right for the part. I didn’t know that could be true of anybody with one head and two arms, but he has a craziness in his eyes that I like. Would have been very pleased if Bruce had gotten the part, but I’m more than able to cope with what I’ve heard so far. I do wish I knew whether Warwick Davis was playing Marvin’s body or his body AND voice. If it’s the former, I’d still like to have Alan Rickman do the “lugubrious” robot. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/92 "2004-02-07T07:33:49Z")
Does there exist a radio production or a book-on-tape version where Douglas Adams reads the text of the Guide? If so, I think it’d be excellent to have the Guide’s voice in the movie be Adams himself. It may not be the best from a dramatic or timing standpoint, but it would be a great homage. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/93 "2004-02-07T16:42:30Z")
Sam Rockwell was bloody brilliant in **Confessions of a Dangerous Mind**. I have high hopes for Zaphod. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/94 "2004-02-07T18:24:35Z")
I think that Mel Gibson would be a good Zaphod. It would be nice if they could use the Eagles music that was the theme for the Radio and Television productions. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217/95 "2004-02-07T21:17:46Z")
They’ve totally screwed with my mental image of Marvin with this bit of casting. I have nothing against Warwick Davis, but I always thought of Marvin as, well, TALL. Tall and skinny. Still, I’m willing to wait and see. I guess I’ll have to withdraw any complaints about American actors if Adams said the only one who HAD to be English was Arthur. Still, it just doesn’t seem quite right. I’m both excited about, and somewhat dreading, this movie. It could be a disaster in so many ways, but if they do it right, it could be fabulous. Oh dear. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-movie/221217.md?page=4)