Fortunatly, fond memories I've found can sometimes rebound. The complete digitally remastered BBC six part series of " the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy " availablle
on DVD from AOL Time Warner. And I'm sure it took some kind of
big fat lady ad her big fat lady ass to sit on this DVD in order to
close the case cover. It's just that jammed packed fulla extra bonus
stuff.
As far as things being badly screwed up, I'd have to say that's pretty
much guaranteed. The movie's screenplay was writen entirely by Douglas
Adams prior to his early demise in 2001. And the inside buzz says the
script remained tinkered free from then throughout final production.
But then you have to remember who we're dealing with here. In taking
the story from it's oringinal birth on BBC radio (audio CD available as
well) to it's first rebirth on BBC television. Douglas intentionally
went about hacking up his story to get it to look as close as he could,
to looking like a real professional hack had hacked it. Then came an
even more daunting task With the series a success on the BBC, and then
across the pond on Americas PBS it well received enough, to the point
that there were even rumors of people willing to sit through an entire
"Pledge Break" waiting for part 2 of that evening broadcast. Douglas
then found himself gasping for air and drowning in a vast ocean
of one question. " How come we can't find the original book?", "is it
out of print?", "Do you have a copy?", "Can I borrow yours?" The fact
was, There was no book. But to the rapidly growing cult of fanatical
fans. Facts were not an option. "where's the book?" was the only
option. "why won't you tell us?". "What are you hiding?" So to
apease his fans. ouglas was forced into a lucritive book deal.
And so he began the chore of un-hacking the story back from TV to
radio. And then onto un-hacking into minus decimals in order to arrive
at the original story as told in the book that never was.
And now all these years later, the long awaited movie deal comes
through. So now this poor man has to re-hack the original book back to
the original radio script. Re-hack it back to the point that a
story should be hacked by a professional hacker for TV. And all
of this only to face the overwhelming challenge now of having to
hack flawlessly to the major outmost extremes in order to get a
screenplay of such perfection and quality as to be suitable enough to
meet the demands for production by a real big time Hollywood major
motion picture studio. And, Walt Disney, Touchstone major motion
picture studios at that. And it was there, not long after he had
acomplish what no other writer throughout the annuls of history
had ever done or attempted or would even ever consider giving the
slightest thought of thinking about attempting. He Had
Hacked......(please see above) It was there. In Hollywood. In
his Hollywood hotel room. In 2001. At the age of 51. Douglas Adams died
of a heartahacked.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Douglas_Adams.htm
I Miss Him
Cinsidy
ps. Things That May Be Considered Screwed.
Zaphoid Beetlebrox will for the most part have only one head.
(i know i was bummed too).
Ford Prefect is an Afro-American.
Trillion is now an empowered women of the 21st. century and not a dingy dumb blond slut.
(i know i was bummed too).
A big fan of John Malkovich, Doug wrote in an entirely new character for him.