{"id":1769,"date":"2004-02-06T00:17:21","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T08:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/02\/06\/1769.html"},"modified":"2004-02-06T00:17:21","modified_gmt":"2004-02-06T08:17:21","slug":"hitchhikers-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/02\/06\/hitchhikers-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchhiker&#8217;s movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It appears that there's a <a href=\"http:\/\/douglasadams.com\/movie\">movie of <cite>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy<\/cite><\/a> in the works.<\/p\n<p>If that site can be believed, the cast-so-far is interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Martin Freeman (who played John in <cite>Love Actually<\/cite>&#8212;the male porn-movie stand-in) as Arthur<\/li>\n<li>Rapper\/actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0080049\/\">Mos Def<\/a> as Ford (I've seen him recently in <cite>The Italian Job<\/cite> and <cite>Bamboozled<\/cite> and <cite>Monster's Ball,<\/cite> but I like him best for his and Talib Kweli's <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=328713&selectedItemId=328705\">Thieves in the Night<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.virginia.edu\/jalexander\/public_html\/blackstar.thieves.htm\">lyrics<\/a>) (my favorite line: \"Your firearms are too short to box with God\")<\/li>\n<li>Sam Rockwell (Guy from <cite>Galaxy Quest;<\/cite> Eric from the first <cite>Charlie's Angels<\/cite> movie) as Zaphod<\/li>\n<li>Warwick Davis (Flitwick from <cite>Harry Potter,<\/cite> but probably better known as Willow from <cite>Willow<\/cite>) as Marvin<\/li>\n<li>And Zooey Deschanel (female romantic lead in <cite>Elf;<\/cite> she has a very nice singing voice) as Trillian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Original screenplay by Douglas Adams, with later drafts by others.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Garth Jennings, who's never directed a feature film before (at least not in the IMDB, at least not under that name), but who's apparently half of \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tongsville.com\/\">Hammer & Tongs<\/a>,\" which appears to be a British duo who direct music videos.<\/p>\n<p>Very odd.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jillian for the pointer.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there&#8217;s a movie of Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy in the works.If that site can be believed,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}