Hey folks, Harry here and this sounds like a wonderful trailer... and I want to see it right now! Using the Guide to be self-referential and irreverent to the very concept of trailers is so very Douglas Adams that it fills me with glee. Now... if only they had workable Guides as promotions. That's what I want!
Greeting from another S.F. WonderCon attendee!
I don?t know if anyone has mentioned this or not, but another Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy trailer debuted at WonderCon last Saturday.
It was basically Stephen Fry (as the book) narrating what the Hitchhiker?s Guide had to say about movie trailers. It listed the elements that a good trailer should include such as explosions (several stock footage of explosions are shown), beautiful women (stock footage of a woman in a bikini), and an announcer that sounded as if he?d been smoking cigarettes (Stephen Fry?s voice changes to a much more traditional and deeper voice). It then when on to include lots of new footage including footage of a very dejected Marvin whose voice (Alan Rickman) we actually hear in this trailer. I only saw it once and I was laughing so hard that It?s hard to recollect more of the specifics.
I walked in on the panel at the very end, so all I caught was the trailer and a brief Q&A session. The paddles, which whack our heroes in the face at the end of the second trailer, were explained in the Q&A session as being the driving evolutionary force for the Vogon?s upturned noses.
T.
