The HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy Movie

I'm such a huge fan of Douglas Adams' work, especially The HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy and have been waiting so long for a movie version to be made.

Sure there is already a movie version, but it was done by the BBC back in the 1970's and the special effects are terrible. It is quite true to the books and quite enjoyable but it left you yearning for a remake with better special effects (I mean things like Zaphod's second head can be all CGI now).

For a bit of history into my love of THHGTTG we must go back a few years.

In the early to mid 1980's, I was in high school and became interested in computers. Our school was given about 20 Apple ][+'s and a few Apple //e's. I became hooked.

Amongst the games I played on the old Apple's were text adventure games by Infocom. Infocom is now owned by Activision but they have stopped selling their games. There are many web sites that keep the memory of Infocom alive.

Anyway, back to my memory lane...

Amongst the Infocom games was, or course, The HitchHikers' Guide To The Galaxy. Once I saw this game and started playing it (you can still play it on-line today via telnet - I use Idokorro's telnet client on my BlackBerry but any telnet client will work on any PDA, PC or Mac), I started my quest for the book. I was a bit late to the party because THHGTTG was a 70's hit and was nowhere to be found.

I eventually convinced a local book store to import them from England. They arrived after some months and I read the first book. Now I just had to get all of the books in the "Trilogy".

I read all 6 books in the "Trilogy" over the next few years (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, Young Zaphod Plays it Safe, and Mostly Harmless) and also the wonderful Dirk Gently books and during the 90's the word started to spread about a possible new HHGTTG film.

Rumors about Jim Carrey playing Zaphod (wouldn't that have been great!?) were posted on-line and I got really excited.
Sadly, Douglas Adams died in 2001 and I lost all hope of ever seeing a movie.

I am really happy that Disney is making this movie (although I still want to see Jim Carrey as Zaphod) and can't wait for it's release next year.