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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science-fiction movie based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adams. Shooting was completed in August 2004 and the movie was released on April 28 2005 in the UK, Australia and New Zealand; and on the following day in the USA. It was rolled out to cinemas worldwide during May, June, July, August and September.

The screenplay was begun by Adams and completed by Garth Jennings and Karey Kirkpatrick after Adams' death.

Cast

Martin Freeman
as Arthur Dent
Mos Def
as Ford Prefect
Sam Rockwell
as Zaphod Beeblebrox
Zooey Deschanel
as Trillian
Bill Nighy
as Slartibartfast
John Malkovich
as Humma Kavula
Anna Chancellor
as Questular Rontok
Jack Stanley
and Dominique Jackson as Lunkwill and Fook
Steve Pemberton as Prosser
Albie Woodington as the barman
Jason Schwartzman
as Gag Halfrunt
Simon Jones
as "Ghostly Image"
Mark Longhurst as "Bulldozer Driver"
Su Elliott as "Pub Customer"
Terry Bamber as "Technician"
Kelly MacDonald as "Reporter"
Helen Mirren
as the voice of Deep Thought
Bill Bailey as the voice of the whale
Thomas Lennon
as Eddie the Shipboard Computer
Warwick Davis
as the body of Marvin
Alan Rickman
as the voice of Marvin
Stephen Fry
as the voice of The Guide
Ian McNeice
as the voice of Kwaltz, a Vogon
Richard Griffiths
as the voice of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz
The League of Gentlemen (Mark Gatiss
, Reece Shearsmith
and Steve Pemberton) as the voices of the Vogons

Production

In a Slashdot interview , Robbie Stamp, one of the film's executive producers, noted the following about the cast of the film:

The hardest character to cast was "the voice of the Guide itself and in the end came back to somebody who was one of the people Douglas himself had wanted, namely Stephen Fry
."
"Douglas himself is on record as saying that as far as he was concerned the only character who had to be British, indeed English, was Arthur Dent."

Stamp also commented on how much role the studio and the other screenwriters (other than Adams that is) had on the film:

"I think that a lot of fans would be surprised to know just how much of a free hand we have been given in the making of this movie. I know how easy it is to see every decision to cut a scene as 'studio' pressure but it was always much more to do with pacing and rhythm in the film itself."
"The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote....All the substantive new ideas in the movie...are brand new Douglas ideas written especially for the movie by him....Douglas was always up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie."

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