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[kingandy]

A new Hitchhiker trailer is up at UGO (which I'm reliably informed is nothing to do with the collectable card game of similar name).

Fry is excellent. I'm actually not too happy about Alan Rickman, entertaining though he is, because he's not Marvin. There's absolutely no reason in the world why they couldn't have dug up the actor who's played the part in every other incarnation of the story. Why mess with perfection?

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[myki.livejournal.com]

I don't know. He might be alright - I'm going to reserve judgement until I hear him say "I just thought you'd want to know, I'm feeling very depressed" or complains about the diodes in his right/left side

Very good trailer though

[myki.livejournal.com]

But he played Pickles in Knightmare... How cool is that!

[jfs.livejournal.com]

There's absolutely no reason in the world why they couldn't have dug up the actor who's played the part in every other incarnation of the story. Why mess with perfection?

Because the presence of a name that people recognise will draw people in that might not have gone otherwise?

[phyrbyrd.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I think Rickman will make a great Marvin. He plays utter cynicism perfectly well in Dogma, doesn't he?

Wax on, Wax off

[myki.livejournal.com]

It's just not Pickle from Knightmare though is it?

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[annabellelaw.livejournal.com]

Pickle? Knightmare?

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[myki.livejournal.com]

Pickle Knightmare

http://www.knightmare.com/pictures/cast/treguardpickle2.jpg

[derooftrouser.livejournal.com]

Hello there. Friend of a friend and all that.

I think you meant to link to Stephen Moore (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601891/) for Marvin definitiveness, rather than David Lerner, who was just inside the costume for the telly version.

Moore does have a cameo as the Magrathea hologram (filmed in 3D, fact fans) in the movie, but you're quite right. He should have been Marvin.

I'm more concerned about Stephen Fry as the Book, really. If you hear Peter Jones, you think "That is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". If you hear Fry, you think "That is Stephen Fry." Someone distinctive but unknown would got my vote. But, as with Rickman, if it gets people into the cinema, I'll cope.

Anyway, there's a big version of the new trailer here (http://www.totta.nu/guiden/default.aspx?pageid=58). (Second one down, avoid the 'UK trailer' it's a slightly more rubbish one along the same lines)

[kingandy]

Ahh, of course. I did wonder, Pickle doesn't have at all the same voice. I am a fool!

damn

[johnleach.livejournal.com]

damn, you beat me to it.
here I am, brain the size of a planet...