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Ok, so this is a weird question.

I am a big fan of Douglas Adams "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and I think the recent movie was done very well given the intensity of the book(s) (a trilogy in five parts). I do think they should have endeavoured to reproduce the whole thing rather than the fragments that they wove together to produce a storyline that actually makes a kind of sense. They should have stuck to the fact that it doesn`t really make sense and that was the beauty of it. It`s the extreme escapism.

Ok, so my question is this, why shorten an insanely wild, not to mention lengthy book(s) into one film when "Dirk Gently`s Holistic Detective Agency" written by the same author, conveniently fits into one book and would probably be easier to translate into a film and still manage to make as much sense as the original book did?

I love "Dirk Gently`s Holistic Detective Agency", its genius.

Because Dirk Gently (and the following books) are, if possible even further out there than HHGTTG and have a less of a devoted and inbuilt audience.

You could rationalise some of the stuff in HHGTTG to make it reasonably coherent, but I dont think you could do that with Poltergeists, Time Travelling dorm rooms and Electric Monks.

It would almost certainly flop on its arse and Im sure no studio would touch it as it would require too much of a re-write.

Although, as you said, I`d like to see them try!

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Because Dirk Gently (and the following books) are, if possible even further out there than HHGTTG and have a less of a devoted and inbuilt audience.

Not to mention that most of it was recycled from DA`s Doctor Who stories City of Death (the one with all the Mona Lisa`s) & Shada (Unfinished due to BBC strike, released on VHS in incomplete form & finally redone as a webcast for the BBC with Paul McGann).



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This item was edited on Friday, 21st October 2005, 13:47