| Reviews: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005) with Trailer Mar 15th 2012, 05:00 You're here : Home » All Movies » The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005)...  - IMDb page: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
- Rate: 6.6/10 total 82,085 votes
- Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
- Release Date: 29 April 2005 (USA)
- Runtime: 109 min
- Filming Location: Beehive Pub, Hare Street, Nr Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Budget: $50,000,000(estimated)
- Gross: $104,478,416(Worldwide)
- Director: Garth Jennings
- Stars: Martin Freeman, Mos Def and Sam Rockwell
- Original Music By: Joby Talbot
- Soundtrack: So Long & Thanks for All the Fish
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS
- Plot Keyword: Galaxy | Spaceship | Alien | Friend | Planet
Writing Credits By: - Douglas Adams (book)
- Douglas Adams (screenplay) and
- Karey Kirkpatrick (screenplay)
Known Trivia - The movie was first optioned in 1982 by producers Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck and Michael C. Gross. Douglas Adams wrote three drafts for them per his contract. During this time, Medjuck and Gross were considering Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd to play Ford Prefect, but then Aykroyd sent them his idea for Ghostbusters and they did that movie instead.
- Douglas Adams's head appears as a planet during Slartibartfast's tour of the galaxy.
- This film was in "Development Hell" for over twenty years. At one point, Douglas Adams insisted it would be made "sometime before the last Trump". Just prior to his death, a deal was almost in place with Jay Roach directing and starring Hugh Laurie (Arthur), Jim Carrey (Zaphod Beeblebrox) and the late Nigel Hawthorne (Slartibartfast).
- John Malkovich's character, religious leader Humma Kavula, was created especially for the movie by Douglas Adams. He does not appear in any previous version of the story.
- This is the ninth version of the "Hitchhiker's Guide". It has previously appeared as a radio series, two record albums, novels, a television series (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy), a computer game, a stage show, a comic book, a video game (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and a towel. (The game version is not, in fact, a video game, but was an Infocom "interactive fiction" {text only} game, plotted/scripted by Douglas Adams, programmed by Steve Meretsky, which has been available to play free on the BBC Radio 4 website since 2005.)
- The note that Ford uses in the pub to buy six pints "and keep the change" is a £50 Bank of England note with the engraving of Sir John Houblon on the back. In the original 1978 radio version and in The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, it was "a fiver".
- After Jay Roach decided to pass on directing the movie, he brought the property to Spike Jonze. Jonze also passed, but suggested Nick Goldsmith and Garth Jennings (also known as Hammer and Tongs, also soon-to-be former music video directors), who accepted.
- Jack Davenport was considered for the role of Arthur Dent, but in the end it was decided he was simply too good-looking for the role of the ultimate everyman Dent. Douglas Adams had originally wanted Hugh Grant to also play Arthur, but the idea was nixed.
- A painting of Douglas Adams and his wife Jane Belson appears on the Heart of Gold. Other Adams cameos include a few handles on some cupboards in Humma Kavula's office being shaped like Adams' nose.
- The car that Ford Prefect "introduces himself to" is actually a Ford Prefect, from whence Ford got his "Earth name". Despite being a Ford, the car was never manufactured or sold in the United States, but produced in Ireland, the UK, Malaysia and New Zealand, and sold in Europe, Asia and Australia between 1938 and 1959.
Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Arthur is speaking to Trillian ( Plot: Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Full summary » | » Story: Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast…but for a man named Arthur Dent, this goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth's impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is exploded to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that's not enough, throw in being wanted by the police, Earth II, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you've got the greatest adventure off Earth.Written by radioactive Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database  | |
