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US developing new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams’ comedy sci-fi classic is headed stateside at Hulu.

Douglas Adams’ comedy sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is headed to American television.

Deadline reports Hulu is developing a series adaptation of the novels from prolific showrunner Carlton Cuse (Lost, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Locke & Key) and feature writer Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman, Ice Age: Continental Drift).

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy originated as a comedy radio series and became a hugely successful series of novels that has been translated into more than 30 languages and has become essential reading for high school students around the world. BBC produced 6 episodes in 1981 starring Simon Jones, David Dixon, Mark Wing-Davey, Sandra Dickinson and Stephen Moore.

The series follows the intergalactic adventures of Arthur Dent, a hapless Englishman, following the destruction of Earth by the Vogons, a race of unpleasant and bureaucratic aliens.

8 Responses

  1. Wonder if episode will be exactly 42 minutes long? Can’t be as bad as that movie was and hopefully they stick closer to the books than both the movie and the original series did.

      1. Why??!! The existing UK version is hardly definitive. Sure, it has some amusing performances, but it was also produced on a limited budget that wasn’t able to do justice to the story, even within the technical constraints of the time. Given the leaps in CGI over the past 15 years, a new production could be really impressive, even on a relatively modest budget.

  2. I love that I’m scrolling down the TV Tonight page and stumble across a photograph that looks like it was taken yesterday but takes me instantly back to my childhood.

    Oh and this adaptation will be shit.

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