mostly harmless...

aside from the recent rash of horrible covers and crap-ass remakes, there is one project that i have been looking forward to for some time now, and it's almost here. i am, of course, talking about the big budget movie version of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. this was one of the first books i truly fell in love with when i was about thirteen. it makes me giggle aloud reading it to this day- which i plan to again very soon, to refresh my memory for it's april 29th release. the fact that the story itself has survived several incarnations, from a bbc radio production, to a made for bbc tv movie, and then to a book , makes me less worried than normal about what a large budget will do to the original idea. after watching the trailer nine times or so, i can safely speculate that there is some amount of unaltered content that should appease die-hard fans of the book. as for the remainder of the film, we shall see. alan rickman is doing the voice of marvin the paranoid android so how off could these people be? i know that up until his death in 2001, douglas adams had a major hand in the process, so i have faith it will all go well, despite the fact that it is a buena vista production. when things get that close to the mouse, i get a bit itchy. i'm sure i will love it. the odds of my not enjoying it, at any rate, would be very, very improbable...