Trillian Talks ... Zooey Deschanel Spills on the Just Wrapped Hitchhiker's Guide
I have very, very mixed feelings about the coming film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I love the books. Hell, I adore pretty much every word Douglas Adams ever wrote. Thus, I really want this to be good. However I just can't expunge the memory of the BBC television version - which I loathe, or at least loathed when I saw it years ago - from my mind. People talked about Lord of the Rings being 'un-adaptable' but at least it had a linear story line. This? This has got missiles turning into whales and delivering lengthy monologues as they plummet to their doom. Brilliant, yes, but hard to make work on screen.
Calming my beating heart are the facts that everyone involved have been saying the right things; the teaser trailer captures the tone nicely; and the trio of images they've released at least demonstrate that the film's got a decent budget. Making me think even more happy thoughts is this interview with Zooey Deschanel, aka Trillian. Once you're done with that you can check the website for the film here and the teaser here.
