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Friday 8 April 2005

It's also all in the Stars

Nice article in the Guardian today about the 20 years of obfuscation that led to the making of the Hitchikers Movie - one of the directors, Simon Jennings seems to have nicely tapped into Douglas Adams' methodolgy in creating the original radio series, before it was polished, analysed and re-written to make sense for the novels.

So it was like when you're a kid telling stories and you go, 'OK, and then a spaceship comes down and then ... Oh shit, how do I get out of this? OK, well then there's a button that you press and it's an improbability button and that means that you can get out of any problem.' And we've tried to keep all of that in the film.

Which is not to denegrate the master, of course.

Posted by dustbinman at 9:08 | Permalink

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Sounds like a perfectly sensible method to me; you have no idea how many trials I've won thanks to it!

PS: I love you. xx

Posted by: MJ

on April 8, 2005 01:36 PM