All right, maybe this is old news, but I just found out...
Alan Rickman is voicing Marvin. I am now officially wetting my pants in anticipation.
I've already been blown away by the casting, but this is the most perfect choice yet....
just a couple of months....
[ February 13, 2005, 01:37 PM: Message edited by: Jim-Me ]
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
There choice for Ford however, has me a bit nervous... the rest of the casting looks awesome.
According to IMDB:
quote: Martin Freeman .... Arthur Dent Mos Def .... Ford Prefect Sam Rockwell .... Zaphod Beeblebrox Zooey Deschanel .... Tricia McMillan ("Trillian") Bill Nighy .... Slartibartfast Warwick Davis .... Marvin the Paranoid Android Stephen Fry .... The Book (voice) rest of cast listed alphabetically Polly Jane Adams Bill Bailey .... The Whale (voice) Mason Ball .... Vogon Minion Jane Belson .... Extra Jerome Blake .... Vogon Guard Anna Chancellor .... Questular Rontok Richard Coombs .... Vogon High Command Barry Dowden .... Stunt Builder Phillip Eason .... Vogon High Command Jane Garnier Richard Griffiths .... Jeltz, Vogon Captain (voice) Brian Herring .... Vogon Minion Mark Jefferis .... Vogon High Command Simon Jones .... Magrathean Announcer William Todd Jones .... Vogon Captain John Malkovich .... Humma Kavula Ian McNeice .... Vogon Kwaltz (voice) Steve Pemberton .... Mr. Prosser Nigel Plaskitt .... Vogon High Command Alan Rickman .... Marvin the Paranoid Android (voice) Katherine Smee .... Vogon James Thrift .... Extra Robert Tygner .... Vogon High Command Patrick Walker .... Vogon Guard
Why would they cast a rapper as Ford?? Hmm... well from his pic on IMDB he looks like he could fit the part. If he can act well... Anyone seen this guy in anything?
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
Mos Def has some acting chops. I'm not worried.
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
I loved Zooey Deschanel in Almost Famousand Elf.
[ February 13, 2005, 11:44 PM: Message edited by: Beren One Hand ]
Posted by fil (Member # 5079) on :
Mos Def was widely hailed for his performance in the Pulitzer Prize winning play with Jeffrey Wright (another cool actor) a couple of years ago Topdog/Underdog . He is the #1 cast member on people's list of concerns with the movie but I think he could be a good choice. My bigger concern is Zaphod Beeblebrox. I LOVE Sam Rockwell but he just doesn't seem to fit my personal vision of Zaphod. But, I supposed he is just this guy, you know...
And I love Zooey in Elf, as well...though it would be more fun to have more Brits in what is a very British storyline. We will have to see.
[ February 13, 2005, 02:23 PM: Message edited by: fil ]
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
I've seen the acronym for this movie written as H2G2 several times lately but shouldn't it be HG2G?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
They're considering "hitchhiker" to be two words.
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
I always imagined Ford and Zaphod as American for some reason, even though Ford is described passing himself off as coming from Guildford. But I think it might be just a little weird that Arthur is the only English person from England, they could have found someone from Britain to play Trillian. But hey, I don't think it'll make any difference really and it does look like a really good cast. I just hope that no-one tries to do the accent. Dick Van Dyke, I am looking at you. Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
*reads the castlist*
Nope, no one there I've heard of. Except John Malkovich. His name was in a movie title. I haven't seen the movie, but I've heard of it. No clue who any of those other people are.
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
Simon Jones has a cameo! Awesome.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
I get to see (or rather, hear) Steven Fry again. Hooray!!
And my wife will come to any movie with Alan Rickman in it, so we'll both be there. Funny how our favorite people will be playing voices.
I wish DNA had been around to oversee this. I still have some hopes. Of course, that'll make it that much more painful when I'm betrayed. At least I'll have a couple good months of anticipation.
Posted by fil (Member # 5079) on :
Verily the VERY Younger, apparently! :-) I thought Trillian was American, actually. Wasn't there a reference to that? In the book? Maybe? I could see Zaphod not being Brit...he isn't anything as he is alien and all. Ford, though...have to agree that English is how I imagined him (and heard him of course on the radio show).
Did anyone listen to the new HHGtG radio shows? They brought most of the original cast back to do the voices (isn't Fry passed on? Did he do the original voice? They did some cool stuff to account for that in the new show, at any rate). I did one episode and it was okay but not nearly as fun as the original show. Douglas Adams has a cameo in it, actually. They use his voice for one of the characters but I can't remember which one.
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
Stephen Fry isn't dead. He is however, a very nice man who, when my friend wrote him a fan letter, wrote back within days answering all her questions and thanking her profusely. If I remember rightly, Douglas Adams played Agrajag, the soul that Arthur kills accidentally again and again throughout the books. I think one of Agra's incarnations might have actually been the Whale.
The original voice of the book was Peter Jones.
And yes, when it comes to Hitchhiker's, I am a fangirl. Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I am going to name my son Slartibartfast....I love it....
quote: I think one of Agra's incarnations might have actually been the Whale.
No......he was the pot of petunias that said,"Not again!" as it rocketed towards its doom......the whale was just a whale......and a very funny whale at that......
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
Oh, the petunias! I love the petunias. Gotta go read the book again...
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Veriily... if you;ve seen any of the Harry Potter movies, Alan Rickman is Snape. He's given much better performances elsewhere...
Posted by fil (Member # 5079) on :
Ah, Peter Jones is the one that passed on. So was Stephen Fry on the new radio shows? He was pretty good if I recall. Peter was so distinctive, though, it was hard to get over the change.
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
fil, you may be thinking of Stephen Moore, who played Marvin.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I can't find the radio show on CD or the scripts im book form........do I just have bad luck?
Edit: Does anyone know for sure what the rating will be? It'll either be R or PG-13, but I'm not sure. Does anyone else know?
[ February 13, 2005, 08:52 PM: Message edited by: SteveRogers ]
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Possibly more appropriate to this, Alan Rickman played "Dr. Lazarus," the disgruntled Mr Spock parody on Galaxy Quest.
Posted by fil (Member # 5079) on :
narrativium, thanks! It was Jones I was thinking of, though. I looked him up. He died in 2000. He was the voice for the book in the radio show and the tv adaptation. I do agree that the original Marvin's voice was extremely well done, too. I think Rickman will nail it, though.
As for rating, it honestly could be PG. It isn't racy at all, there is little foul language (the word "Belgium" being the worst, if you will excuse my language) and the violence is pretty surreal more than anything. Sure, planet blowing up and all but... If it is R I will be very suspicious.
[ February 14, 2005, 01:03 AM: Message edited by: fil ]
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
Alan Rickman also played the evil bad guy from Die Hard. How can you top that?
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
fil- Have you read the book? There is more than a little language, drugs, sex, violence, and all around controversial stuff. I am pretty sure it will be at least PG-13......
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Martin Freeman playing Arthur Dent is a stroke of genius. There's nobody on the planet made to play him like Freeman.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Since Verily was "the younger" I went for recent history. Hans Gruber is an all-time great baddie, I agree, Strider.
But can't you just hear Rickman saying "I'm not getting you down, am I?"
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Oh, for Christ's sake, people. When "the Younger" is appended to someone's name, it does not mean that person is a child. It means nothing more or less than that they were born later than a relative with the same name.
My use of the phrase was just a playful little way of connecting myself to OSC's work, which I figured would be appropriate for this forum. The implication was supposed to be that I was a descendant of Verily Cooper and was named for him. Pliny the Younger was fifty years old when he died--not bad, for that era--and yet he is still so called in order to distinguish him from his uncle, who was also named Pliny.
Have none of you ever heard of William Pitt the Younger? Hans Holbein the Younger? Seneca the Younger? Or had you heard of them, but simply assumed they spent their entire lives in swaddling clothes?
Posted by fil (Member # 5079) on :
Steve, yah I read them all. Compared to most pop culture material it is pretty tame. I could see PG-13, though. There is talk of sex like in the discussion of defining words such as "sass" which of course means "to know, be aware of, meet, have sex with" but no one has sex in the books that I can remember, especially not the first one. There is a lot of alcohol consumption so that alone would probably put it at PG-13, I suppose. And I can see the protests now if they do any of the "proving god doesn't exist" bits! Won't change the rating but it will give the CAPAlert guy a heart attack.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
not swaddling clothes, no... I'm mean I picture them toilet trained, ya' know?
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote:Have none of you ever heard of William Pitt the Younger?
Thanks to Black Adder, my knowledge of history has become quite extensive.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
Black Adder rocks. Just... rocks. I love it. And I love Monty Python. And HHGttG. Brit comedy is the best
I can't wait for this movie. Alan Rickman is gonna kick butt as Marvin, and you guys have assuaged my fears about some of the other actors. I can't wait for the movie now Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
This might make some feel a bit better about the casting choices. I don't trust Harry's reviews for anything, but Quint and Moriarity tend to be a good gauge.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Yes, well, I've been toilet trained for quite some time now. I'm twenty-four. Still young compared to many people here, but I'm hardly what you'd call a child. You don't need to restrict your references to things that happened in the last few years in order for me to understand them. In fact, since my interests usually lie with older things, such a strategy can usually backfire. I have no interest in Harry Potter, but I am more than old enough to have seen "Die Hard".
. . .
Not . . . you know, not that I've seen "Die Hard". Just that I'm old enough to have seen it if I had wanted to. My lack of familiarity with the names of actors comes, not from my youth, but from my considerable lack of interest in movies. I'm just not really into movies.
I've seen plenty I liked, sure, but I'm not the kind that can just go to a theater and watch a movie because it's there, or because everyone else is. I only go to the movies if there's some specific movie that has, for whatever reason, grabbed my attention. And I almost never rent movies (though I know I should do so more often), and I don't watch television enough to just happen to catch them very much.
(Though I did see a couple on TV over the weekend when I was laid out with illness. "Mad Love", which sucked, and "Sleepless in Seattle", which sucked somewhat less. But that's rare. I usually go weeks at a time without seeing any movies at all.)
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
For those of you who would like a more intimate view of the actor playing Arthur Dent (and who like BritComs), I HIGHLY recommend renting the DVD's for Season 1 & 2 of The Office, and the specials. Martin Freeman plays "Tim," who's a fantastic straight man. Very endearing.
The Office is absolute and utter brilliance.
[ February 14, 2005, 09:48 PM: Message edited by: Ralphie ]
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Hey, in case none of you all have noticed yet, they're playing the new (non-teaser) trailer on the front page of Amazon.com. Check it out. Now.
[ February 16, 2005, 09:01 AM: Message edited by: Speed ]
Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
It actually looks pretty good. I can't wait!
Posted by ghost of dkw (Member # 4046) on :
It all looks so . . . real.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Hmm....
Interesting...
However, I am still wary.
Heart of Gold looks nothing like I expected.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Anybody else think it funny that they used music from Men In Black?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*bounce*
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I'm going to name my children Slartibartfast and Fenchurch................
[ February 16, 2005, 04:18 PM: Message edited by: SteveRogers ]
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
*twitch* Not. Soon. Enough.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
They also used some from Aliens.
And Douglas Adams was very unhappy with Men In Black. When he tried to get the Guide made, they studios said, "No one likes movies that mix sci fi and comedy."
Then MiB came out. And Adams found some things very....
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