The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 2005 Cover Art
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
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| Directed by | Garth Jennings |
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| Based on | The Hitchhiker'due south Guide to the Galaxy past Douglas Adams |
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| Cinematography | Igor Jadue-Lillo |
| Edited past | Niven Howie |
| Music by | Joby Talbot |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
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| Running time | 109 minutes[i] |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $45–fifty 1000000[2] [iii] |
| Box office | $104.5 million[2] |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way is a 2005 scientific discipline fiction one-act picture show directed by Garth Jennings, based upon previous works in the media franchise of the aforementioned name, created by Douglas Adams. It stars Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Neb Nighy, Anna Chancellor, John Malkovich, and the voices of Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren, Thomas Lennon, Richard Griffiths, Ian McNeice, Bill Bailey and Alan Rickman. Adams co-wrote the screenplay with Karey Kirkpatrick but died in 2001, before production began; the film is dedicated to Adams. The moving-picture show grossed over $100 meg worldwide.
Plot [edit]
Ane Thursday morning, Arthur Dent discovers that his house is to be immediately demolished to make style for a bypass. He tries delaying the bulldozers by lying down in front of them. Ford Prefect, a friend of Arthur's, convinces him to go to a pub with him. Over several pints of beer, Ford explains that he is an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse, and a announcer working on the Hitchhiker'due south Guide to the Galaxy, a universal guide book. Ford warns that the Globe is to be demolished later that day by a race called Vogons, to make style for a hyperspace bypass.
Equally the Vogon fleet arrives in orbit to destroy Earth, Ford rescues Arthur by stowing aboard ane of the Vogon ships. The pair are soon discovered and thrown out an airlock, only to be picked up by the starship Center of Aureate. They find Ford's "semi-cousin" Zaphod Beeblebrox, the newly elected president of the Milky way. He has stolen the ship forth with Tricia "Trillian" McMillan, an World woman whom Arthur had met previously, and Marvin the Paranoid Android, a clinically depressed robot.
Zaphod seeks the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything to match with the disappointing answer given past the supercomputer Deep Thought: "42". He believes that the respond lies on the planet Magrathea, only accessible using the Middle of Gold 's improbability drive through trial and error.
On one attempt, they arrive at Viltvodle 6, where Zaphod's opponent, Humma Kavula, resides. Kavula offers the coordinates for Magrathea in commutation for Zaphod recovering the Point-of-View gun, a gun created past Deep Thought that makes anyone information technology blasts temporarily see things from the shooter'southward perspective. Trillian is captured by the Vogons as they depart, and the three mount a rescue effort on the Vogon homeworld. Before her rescue, Trillian learns that Zaphod signed the order for the destruction of Earth, thinking that the Vogon with the permission form just wanted his autograph.
The group escapes the Vogons, followed past Galactic Vice-President Questular Rontok and the Vogons. They go far at Magrathea, only trigger its automatic missile defence force systems. Arthur re-activates the improbability bulldoze to transform the missiles into a bowl of petunias and a whale, assuasive them to land safely on the planet. Zaphod, Ford, and Trillian enter a portal to go far at Deep Thought, though Arthur and Marvin are stranded outside the portal. They learn from Deep Idea that afterward coming up with the Respond "42", its creators had Deep Thought design another computer to come upwardly with the Question, that being Globe. They recover the Indicate-of-View gun, though Trillian uses it on Zaphod to show him her resentment for his accidental destruction of the Earth. They are captured by unknown entities.
Meanwhile, on Magrathea, Arthur is met by Slartibartfast, one of the planet builders. Slartibartfast takes Arthur to a pocket dimension within the planet where he shows that a new version of Earth is near completion. Slartibartfast takes Arthur to his recreated home, where inside, the others are enjoying a banquet provided by the pan-dimensional beings who commissioned Arthur's original Earth, and who resemble a pair of mice. With Arthur, who was on World upwardly until the last minutes, the mice think they can notice the Question past removing his brain. Arthur manages to escape and beat the mice under a teapot; they disappear without a trace.
Of a sudden, Questular and the Vogons go far outside the habitation and open fire. The group takes shelter in a caravan, just Marvin, left solitary, uses the Point-of-View gun to make the entire Vogon strength besides depressed to continue fighting. The Vogons are taken away, while Zaphod reunites with Questular. Arthur decides to explore the milky way with Ford and Trillian, allowing Slartibartfast to finalise the new Earth without him. The Heart of Gold crew decides to visit the Eating place at the Finish of the Universe.
Cast [edit]
- Martin Freeman equally Arthur Dent, a human being who gets roped in Zaphod'southward quest.
- Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox, the President of the Milky way. In this film, his 2d caput is tucked under his cervix.
- Mos Def as Ford Prefect, the "semi-cousin" of Zaphod.
- Zooey Deschanel equally Trillian, an World woman.
- Pecker Nighy as Slartibartfast, a planet builder.
- Warwick Davis as Marvin, an android who is clinically depressed.
- Alan Rickman equally vox of Marvin
- Anna Chancellor equally Questular Rontok, the Vice-President of the Galaxy who is sectional to the film.
- John Malkovich every bit Humma Kavula, Zaphod's opponent from the planet Vildvodle Half dozen.
- Nib Bailey every bit the Spermwhale, summoned into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
- Helen Mirren equally voice of Deep Thought, a super-computer.
- Stephen Fry as Narrator/vocalization of the Guide
Richard Griffiths voices Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, the leader of the Vogons. Thomas Lennon voices Eddie the shipboard reckoner.[4] Simon Jones, who portrayed Arthur Dent in both the BBC radio and television adaptations of Hitchhiker's, makes a cameo appearance as the "Ghostly Image" (the Magrathean defense organization's recorded announcement).[5] Comedy troupe The League of Gentlemen provided additional voices for the Vogons, while i of its members, Steve Pemberton, appears every bit Mr. Prosser, the construction boss. British film director Edgar Wright (of Shaun of the Expressionless and Hot Fuzz fame) cameos as a Deep Idea technician. Kelly Macdonald plays a TV reporter.
Pre-product and production [edit]
Preparations for the premiere of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Leicester Square.
Bringing The Hitchhiker'south Guide to a theatrical version started as early on as the 1970s, as documented in The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made by David Hughes. Douglas Adams had been approached by ane unnamed producer and separately by the American Broadcasting Company network during the 1970s to turn the book into a film, just Adams refused both offers, every bit he feared they wanted to turn the work into "Star Wars with jokes".[6] In 1982, Adams signed an option for the film with producers Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck, and Michael C. Gross, and completed three scripts for them. As part of the rewrites, Medjuck and Gross offered the idea of bringing in either Neb Murray or Dan Aykroyd to play Ford Prefect. However, Aykroyd separately proposed a different story to Reitman, which led to this project becoming the footing for Ghostbusters. This left Adams flustered about the film's development in making sure there was the necessary commitment to the project. Even so, the outcome did serve the idea of making Prefect an American as to better draw in that audition.[vi]
Movement on the picture show was repose until around 2001, when director Jay Roach, using the clout he had gained from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Come across the Parents, secured a new deal with Adams and product through Disney.[6] Adams wrote a new script, and Roach sought talent similar Spike Jonze to straight, Hugh Laurie to play Arthur, and Jim Carrey as Zaphod, but then Adams died on 11 May 2001. Neither Roach nor the film's executive producer Robbie Stamp wanted to see their work become for naught after Adams' death. Roach brought in Karey Kirkpatrick to complete the screenplay based on Adams' final draft, submitted merely before his decease. Kirkpatrick used what notes Adams had left, finding that Adams was willing to go off the book's narrative to adapt to the film. He considered his screenplay something in the spirit that Adams had set out based on the whole of Adams' work.[6]
Some time after Adams' death, Roach decided to drop out of the project, and, on recommendation from Fasten Jonze – one of several directors asked to practise the motion picture – Roach turned to director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith, collectively known as Hammer & Tongs, to take up the work.[6] [vii]
In a Slashdot interview, Robbie Postage, 1 of the film'south executive producers, stated the following near the bandage of the picture show:[8]
- The hardest graphic symbol to bandage was "the vocalism of the Guide itself and in the terminate came dorsum to somebody who was one of the people Douglas himself had wanted, namely Stephen Fry."
- "Douglas himself is on record every bit saying that as far as he was concerned the only character who had to be British, indeed English language, was Arthur Paring."
Postage stamp too commented on how large a role the studio and screenwriters other than Adams played in making the film:
- "I call up that a lot of fans would be surprised to know just how much of a free hand we accept been given in the making of this movie. I know how easy information technology is to see every decision to cut a scene as 'studio' pressure merely it was always much more to do with pacing and rhythm in the moving picture itself."
- "The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote... All the substantive new ideas in the film... are brand new Douglas ideas written peculiarly for the movie by him... Douglas was e'er up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some grapheme evolution and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie."
Shooting was completed in Baronial 2004, and the movie was released on 28 Apr 2005 in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and on the post-obit day in Canada and the United States. The pre-title sequence of the film was shot in Loro Parque, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife.
Marketing [edit]
The film trailer featured vocalism over work by Stephen Fry as the Guide, describing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 's entry on pic trailers.
An audio drove called "Additional Guide Entries", read by Stephen Fry, was released to iTunes to promote the film. The entries were ready to music by Joby Talbot and written by Tim Browse and Sean Sollé (with the exception of the How to be Cool entry, which was besides co-written past Yoz Grahame).
The "Hitchhiker's Guide to Technology" claims that if yous brand yourself a cup of tea and try to get an object working and the tea goes common cold before you finish, you are dealing with technology. Other guides include the Hitchhiker'southward Guide to Blogging, the Hitchhiker'southward Guide to Deadlines, and the Hitchhiker's Guide to How to exist Cool which discusses how an individual can truly be cool, instead of by following crowds, but concludes by suggesting the listener attend a showing of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Guide to Websites, which only appeared on the official UK motion picture website, described a website equally "a wonderful new invention that allows people y'all neither know nor intendance virtually to inform you lot what they had for breakfast this morning, without all that slow mucking well-nigh in the postal system". The Guide to Fanboys, written by Touchstone Pictures' copywriters as part of their promotion of the movie, simply ever appeared as website text. Though released at the same time as the iTunes entries, it was never intended to be recorded and is otherwise unconnected with the Fry/Talbot/Scan works.
Reception [edit]
Critical reaction [edit]
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 60% of 200 surveyed critics gave the motion-picture show a positive review; the boilerplate rating is 6.09/x. The site's consensus reads: "A frantic and occasional funny adaptation of Douglas Adams' novel. Nonetheless, information technology may accept those unfamiliar with the source textile scratching their heads."[9] Metacritic gives it 63/100, indicating "by and large favourable" reviews.[10] Audiences polled past CinemaScore gave the film an average grade "B-" on an A+ to F scale.[11] Empire magazine rated the motion-picture show 4 stars out of five and said it was a "very British, very funny sci-fi misadventure that'southward guaranteed to win converts".[12]
Roger Ebert gave the flick ii stars out of 4:
You will find the movie tiresomely twee, and notice that information technology obviously thinks it is being funny at times when y'all do not have the slightest clue why that should exist. You will hear dialogue that preserves the content of written sense of humour at the price of sounding as if the characters are holding a Douglas Adams reading ... I do not get the joke. I do non much want to become the joke, but maybe you will ... To me, information technology got old fairly apace. The movie was more than of a revue than a narrative, more about moments than an organizing purpose.[13]
Manohla Dargis called it "hugely likable" with a story arc structured "more or less" as "a long beginning so an ending"; she calls Jim Henson'south Creature Shop's Vogons "beautifully constructed" and noted that Sam Rockwell'due south performance is "sensational, ... riffing on Elvis and the current President George Bush-league".[7] Peter Bradshaw gave the flick iii stars out of v and said, "The film is no disgrace, and honours the Guide's gentle, low-tech BBC origins. Only it doesn't exercise justice to the open up-ended inventiveness of the original. The inevitable Anglo-American accommodations of casting have muddled its identity and the performances of the new American stars tin can be uneasy. It somehow seems heavier-footed and slower-moving than Adams's concept; the gravity is stronger... The enjoy and flavour of the Adams original, its playfully ruminative feel, has been downgraded in favour of a jolly but less interesting outerspace romp."[14]
Philip French, after describing the Vogons as "a species resembling Laughton'due south version of Quasimodo" and writing it is "not, except in its financing, anything resembling a standard Hollywood production", called the motion-picture show "slightly old-fashioned (few things engagement as rapidly as science fiction and our view of the future) and somewhat commonplace through its embracing familiar special furnishings. The jokes have to compete with the hardware and the actors executing them often exude a feeling of desperation... It'southward funnier, and obviously cleverer, than Spaceballs, Mel Brooks'due south puerile spoof on Star Wars, but a skilful bit less engaging than Milky way Quest."[xv]
Commercial box office [edit]
The picture was released on 28 Apr 2005 in the United Kingdom making GB£4,200,000 (equivalent to £6,411,296 in 2020) in its commencement week. It was released a day later in North America, making U.s.$21,103,203 (equivalent to $29,279,840 in 2021) in its opening weekend, opening in first place. In the The states, the movie remained in the box office top 10 for its first 4 weeks of release. The movie's total box function gross was $104,478,416 worldwide.[2] According to Freeman, the moving-picture show would be unlikely to merit a sequel; he stated "I institute that out from the equus caballus'due south mouth, [manager] Garth Jennings. I had dinner with him and he said [the first one] just didn't do well plenty."[16]
Awards [edit]
The movie was nominated for seven different awards and won 1. Information technology won the Golden Trailer Award under the category Most Original.[17] It was nominated for: the Artios award from Casting Society of America, United States under the category All-time Featured Film Casting-Comedy in 2005; the Empire Awards from Empire Awards, Uk under the categories All-time British Moving-picture show and Best Comedy in 2006; the Gold Trailer from Golden Trailer Awards nether the category Best Vocalization Over; and Teen Choice Award for Pick Movie: Activeness and Choice Rap Creative person in a Movie: Mos Def.[18]
Soundtrack [edit]
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
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| Soundtrack album by Stephen Fry, Joby Talbot | |
| Released | 12 April 2005 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Label | Hollywood |
The complete movement moving-picture show soundtrack was released as an iTunes Music Shop exclusive (in the Us and the United kingdom) on 12 April 2005, two weeks before the scheduled CD release. The iTunes Music Shop also has two further exclusive sets of tracks related to the movie:
- The Marvin Mixes are remixes of a new version of "Reasons to be Miserable", hither performed past Stephen Fry, also equally a new song and a new instrumental track for "Marvin", likewise performed by Fry. Stephen Moore had recorded the vocals of both tracks in 1981.
- The Guide Entries are new spoken "Hitchhiker'southward Guide" entries, all read past Fry, with accompanying music by Joby Talbot (with further orchestrations by Christopher Austin), who wrote the pic score.
The soundtrack CD was released on 26 April 2005,[ citation needed ] by Hollywood Records. The CD has the same 33 tracks as the previous iTunes release. The enclosed booklet includes acknowledgements from Joby Talbot and notes on the cosmos of the vocal "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish", written past Garth Jennings.[ commendation needed ]
The rail "Huma's Hymn" on the soundtrack is notable for the fact that it was sung in St. Michael's Church in Highgate, London by members of local church choirs along with a congregation consisting of members of the public. The recording was open to anyone wishing to nourish, and was publicised on the cyberspace, including in a post to the Usenet grouping alt.fan.douglas-adams.[xix]
The offset version of the song "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" is a Broadway-style, lively version sung by the dolphins before they leave World. The 2d plays over the end credits and is in the style of polish jazz. The vocal was written past English language composer Joby Talbot, conductor Christopher Austin, and director Garth Jennings and performed by the Tenebrae Choir. Neil Hannon, founder and frontman of the Irish pop group The Divine Comedy, of which Talbot is a former fellow member, lent his vocals to the version of the song played during the catastrophe credits. The song, in its "bouncy", opening version, was translated into and performed in Spanish for the Latin-American Region 4 DVD release.
A reworked version of the theme from the 1981 boob tube adaptation was also included in the score.
Domicile media [edit]
The movie was released on DVD (Region two, PAL) in the Britain on v September 2005. Both a standard double disc edition and a U.k.-exclusive "Souvenir Set" edition were released on this date. The standard double disc edition features:
- Making-of
- Additional guide entries (meet marketing, above)
- Deleted scenes
- Actually deleted scenes (scenes that were never actually meant to be in the picture, just for fun)
- Sing-a-long
- Audio commentaries
- Set Height Games: Marvin's Hangman
- Don't Crash (68-minute United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland exclusive "making of" documentary, directed past Grant Gee)
The "Gift Ready" edition includes a re-create of the novel with a "movie tie-in" cover, and collectible prints from the film, packaged in a replica of the picture's version of the Hitchhiker's Guide prop.
Single disc widescreen and total-screen editions (Region 1, NTSC) were released in the United states and Canada on 13 September 2005. They have a different cover, simply contain the same special features (except the Don't Crash documentary) every bit the Britain version.
Single disc releases in the UMD format for the PlayStation Portable were also released on the respective dates in these 3 countries.
The movie was made available as a paid download in the iTunes Store starting in September 2006, for the American market only. A region-complimentary Blu-ray Disc version was released in January 2007.[twenty]
References [edit]
- ^ "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (PG)". British Lath of Film Classification . Retrieved 24 May 2016.
- ^ a b c "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way". The Numbers . Retrieved 12 Feb 2015.
- ^ "The Lost Roles Interview with Tom Lennon". vulture.com. x January 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ "Last hitchhike for Galaxy veteran". news.bbc.co.uk. xix September 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Reynolds, Andrew (ix March 2017). "Star Wars with Jokes: The Hitchhiker'due south Guide to the Galaxy Pic". The Physician Who Companion . Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ a b Dargis, Manohla (29 April 2005). "The Way the World Ends, With a Shrug and a Grin". The New York Times . Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ "HHG2G Exec. Producer Robbie Stamp Answers". Slashdot. 26 April 2005. Retrieved iv June 2011.
- ^ "The Hitchhiker'southward Guide to the Galaxy (2005)". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ "The Hitchhiker'due south Guide to the Galaxy". Metacritic. Retrieved iv June 2011.
- ^ "Cinemascore". Archived from the original on 20 Dec 2018.
- ^ "Review of The Hitchhiker'south Guide to the Galaxy". Empire. Bauer Consumer Media. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (28 Apr 2005). "The Hitchhiker'south Guide to the Galaxy". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (22 Apr 2005). "The Hitchhiker'south Guide to the Galaxy". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ French, Philip (1 May 2005). "Future imperfect: The Hitchhiker movie is clever but adds trivial to the radio original". The Observer. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ Adler, Shawn. "Martin Freeman: No Sequel For 'Hitchhiker'south Guide To The Galaxy'". Yes. MTV Movie Blog. Retrieved two Feb 2014.
- ^ "Aureate Trailer Awards for 2005 at IMDb". imdb.com . Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ Total list of all accolade nominations for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way at IMDb.
- ^ Bulletin announcing the recording of "Humma's Hymn" on the news:alt.fan.douglas-adams newsgroup
- ^ "Expired". yahoo.com. 29 July 2012. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
Further reading [edit]
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way Britain Region 2 DVD Release, 2005. Includes commentaries by Garth Jennings, Nick Goldsmith, Martin Freeman and Pecker Nighy, and Robbie Postage stamp with Sean Sollé. Besides includes the documentary Don't Crash: The Making of the Moving-picture show of the Novel of the Radio Serial of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- Robbie Stamp, ed. (2005). The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Milky way: The Filming of the Douglas Adams Classic. Boxtree. ISBN0-7522-2585-5.
External links [edit]
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at IMDb
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at AllMovie
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at Box Office Mojo
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at Rotten Tomatoes
- "Hitchhiker Motion picture FAQ with FUA"
- Washington Post review
- New York Times review
- BBC Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Interviews with Robbie Stamp (exclusive producer), Garth Jennings (Managing director) and a visit to the movie ready [ permanent dead link ]
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