Mos Def to play Arthur Dent in Hitchhiker's movie

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also the dude from THE OFFICE!




Yesterday Dark Horizons was the first to publish the news and today it's confirmed by Variety: the actors assigned to the roles of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and Trillian have been signed, sealed and delivered for THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY film. Martin Freeman (from THE OFFICE) will play Dent; Mos Def will play Prefect and Zooey Deschanel will be Trillian.


While Variety's report made no mention of who's in the running to play the two-headed President of the Galaxy and all-around cool frood Zaphod Beeblebrox, Dark Horizons did say that Robert Downey Jr. had been the filmmakers choice -- until Downey asked for a number of changes to the screenplay and a deal for insurance coverage for the actor couldn't be worked out (allegedly.)

 

[avi]

oh man, Downey would be so great as Zaphod

 

[avi]

and your subject line is totally wrong

 

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hahah fuck.

 

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i should've just edited the body of the message to MAKE MY SUBJECT LINE TRUE.

 

[azal]

meh,
I don't think I'll go see this, since the picture in my head is made up of all white people. Prefect especially.

 

[FalseTodd]

Oh, but the BBC version was such a rousing success.

 

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with its eye-popping special effects, the BBC version was television's version of Star Wars and Citizen Kane rolled into one.

 

[FalseTodd]

My eyes totally popped out after seeing the special effects. Apparently Zaphod's second head was supposed to move, but it used up batteries so quickly that they couldn't even keep the animitronics going for an entire shot.

Honestly, faced with something like that, you really really have to consider not making the program at all. If one of your star characters is going to have a lifeless plastic head lolling around on his shoulder in every single shot, it's time to strike the set.