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Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
This is a quick one, but cool:
hi harry just a quick bit of news about the new hitchhikers guide to the galaxy film. i work at moorgate london underground station here in central london where they are filming the beginning of the new film. the filming will take place on 6th june at a disused "phonebase" shop that the underground owns. i spoke to the location scout and here is what the scene will be. the shop will be fitted to look like a television store with wall to wall t.v's showing news of the earth being destroyed but one t.v is showing a cartoon that the worker is watching. while outside all hell is breaking loose with people being blown to pieces. she said that the writers family will be in the scene as well (sorry have not read the book or watched the bbc programme). i am working nights on the saturday that they are dressing the shop so i will try to sneak in and get some snaps of the store and i might stay on the sunday get get some snaps of the action.
also one more quick bit of info a couple of weeks ago some at work saw a film crew around the corner filming some scenes for batman begins with gotham city cabs and gotham city police/swat cars. (seems moorgate is becoming filming centre of hollywood......or not)
hope this is some good shit, tasty, smooth
Zaphod’s Cooler HeadThanks, man. It is indeed tasty AND smooth.
"Moriarty" out.
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Dam... I haven't seen anything and I work just round the corner...
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Well, considering it's actually based on a famous series of books and not the BBC miniseries that was made from said series, I don't think you have to worry about it following in the steps of the "creepy" series and cheesy sets.
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I thought the destruction of the earth was almost instantanious. How would they have time to show it on tv?
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"most people in the uk judge the books by the tv series"
no they don't - they judge the books by the books. I don't even know anyone who's seen the tv series and not read the books.
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Like it or not, the TV show and now the film - will always be the definitive version in the eyes of Joe Public. Put it this way, every single fan (give or take) of the books will have watched the TV show, but they must be plenty of people who watched the TV show but never bothered to pick up the books.
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The TV miniseries was produced from the radio series, which was later expanded into a book, which then became two books and so on. They are all from the same creative mind and all share common events and/or characters. However, they're NOT adaptions. They are stand alone interpretations of a similar story. So you couldn't accurately compare the books to the tv show, namely because the tv show only covers the first book (and a bit). The same will hold true for the film. Which version you prefer is your choice. I personally like the book best.
"This isn't my towel!" -
I'm puzzled no one has mentioned that the original (and best IMO) Hitch-Hiker's Guide was a radio series broadcast on the BBC's Radio 4. It was (and still may be) the programme most often requested for repeat broadcasts. -- Martin
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Of course, while composing my message, CellarDoor posted his. So now two people have mentioned it was originally a Radio series. -- Martin
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I'm a big fan of Adams books ... but I do have a problem with one little thing ... how is it that the Earth (the great experiment to find THE ANSWER) is left totally unguarded or unwatched during its cycle. You'd think that the creators of this great experiment would keep a watchful patrol on our shiny blue marble in space so as not to allow an over-zealous construction Vogon to wipe it out!
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Jun 01, 2004 9:30:39 AM CDT
A notice about the Earths distruction has been posted in alpha c
by theginger twit
Bravo
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The moron who submitted the information should have kept it to himself until AFTER he took the photos. Now, just about everyone invovled with the filming will be on the look out for some loser trying to snap some pictures of the TV shop. Idiot!
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As a previous post said, he tends to be smug. He seems like a wannabe Monty Python crew member. While they were very funny there was a nasty, condescending edge to their humour I disliked. I preferred the TV series of HHGTTG to the books. The animated sequences and the voice of the book were just perfect. The opening titles rocked too.
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The destruction of Earth is probably the message from the Vogons, just jazzed up a bit. Or it could be a full Independence Day style thing. Who knows. The scene still sounds funny
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He _was_ a Monty Python cast member - but only in the fourth season (the one without John Cleese)
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BBC Radio 4 will shortly be broadcasting new episodes of Hitchhikers featuring surviving members of the original cast (sadly, Peter Jones who played the voice of the book died a few years ago). The new series will be based on the later books. Should be fun to see how they reconcile the very different continuity between the original radio, TV and book versions...
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Jun 02, 2004 10:57:28 AM CDT
Hasn't read the book or watched the program, but uses "Zaphod's
by cletus van damme
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They're probably doing some kind of Independence Day take on the earth blow up scene. The Vogons come breezing in close enough for people to see them and, of course, all of the mosquito-like press come hording in with cameras trained on both the UFOs and the reactions of the crowd. So, when the Vogons begin blowing up the earth, the cameras are already trained on the scenes of disaster and are already rolling tape, which is on a 5 second delay for satellite broadcast. The satellites would probably either be left intact (lazy Vogons) or destroyed as an afterthought once earth was completely destroyed.
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The radio series was the original and best although I enjoyed the books and the TV series. Maybe as I'm more mature I can appreciate the TV series as it was amazing for the time when it was produced. Douglas Adams was a lazy genius(One book finishes without a proper ending because the publisher had to steal the manuscript from him to hit a publishing date...). So yes it British(not English) and yes its Science Fiction so it can hopefully be intelligent and funny.....but we'll have to see...
PS: I assume you know the answer is 42? -
You all did hear that Arthur Dent is going to be portrayed by Keanu Reeves, who instead of being a Brit in a bathrobe, will be an American dressed all in black who kicks alien butt with his shotgun that's shaped like a cross. But rest assured, almost everything else will be the same as the story you are familiar with. Said Reeves after thoroughly researching the character, "Arthur Dent is like Dirty Harry in space."
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I know you're only 12 but....
Lord of the Rings not good enough?
I suppose JRR was an American was he?
Twat!
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