Perhaps I’m just out of touch and everyone already knows this, but I just found a new Hitchhiker’s trailer which is far more entertaining and in the vein of the book than the previous generic-blah trailer. Some nice bits of irony AND we hear Marvin speak. (I only checked the Quicktime versions.)
My only diappointment so far is that the book does not, in fact, appear to have the worlds “Don’t Panic” inscribe in large, friendly letters on the cover. Whisky tango foxtrot…how hard would that be to include?
Anyway, enjoy, except those of you who just want to rip in and tear the thing about for the search sadistic pleasure of increasing the amount of misery in the world, for whom it is my sincere hope that you are strapped down to a Poetry Appreciation chair and forced to listen to Vogon verse. Oh, and I hope they take your digital watch away, too.
Stephen Fry: Trailers also normally employ –
Don LaFontaine: a deep voice that sounds like a seven-foot-tall man who has been smoking cigarettes since childhood.
I say we get together to buy the copyright to the action theme from Aliens, the opening titles to Batman Returns, and the battle music from Last of the Mohicans and then never, ever, allow them to be used in another movie trailer.
They’re using the first one in the HHGTTG trailer if you’re wondering.
HA… that’s was great :D. Very amusing and seems very Hitchhicker’s like. Though hopefully a lot was tongue in cheek and we don’t see a love story between Arther and Trillian… though I’m sure we won’t.
This type of trailer just indicates that the screenwriters and director just gets what makes the books so great :D.
“Though hopefully a lot was tongue in cheek and we don’t see a love story between Arther and Trillian”
Unfortunately, yes. But early reviewers have said that, well, it may be stupid and predictable, but… well damn, it is sort of stupid. And predictable. Trillian would never be interested in Arthur.
Link to link. Check Amazon for “The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide” which has all the Hitchhiker’s stories in one inconveniently large and unwieldy volume, suitiable for absorbing repeated blasts from a Kill-O-Zap pistol and protection against unintentionaly missing the ground.
Also, there used to be a PDF of the first book online, but I can’t find it. I always assumed it was legitimate, but perhaps not. Anyway, you can look around for it.
Now that I’ve realized that the actor playing Zaphod is indeed who it sounded like (from the trailer), when I watch this thing, I’m going to keep thinking of Zaphod this way… dammit.
“Red-thingy moving toward the green-thingy. I think we’re the green-thingy.”
and
“Wait, don’t open that. It’s an alien planet! Is there air? You don’t know!”
and
“…you have a last name.”
“DO I?!! DO I??!!! For all you know I’m just Crewman Number Six!”
I always associate Sam Rockwell, the guy playing Zaphod, from the Green Mile. That was such a crazy character.
Anyway I noticed they have a new site for the movie. Its pretty cool. They have a good section where they introduce all the characters and their voices.