The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Garth Jennings
Produced by	Douglas Adams (posthumous credit) Derek Evans Robbie Stamp
Written by	Novel: Douglas Adams Screenplay: Karey Kirkpatrick Douglas Adams
Starring	Martin Freeman Mos Def Zooey Deschanel Sam Rockwell Bill Nighy Anna Chancellor John Malkovich
Music by	Joby Talbot
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	April 28, 2005 April 29, 2005
Running time	110 min.
Language	English
Budget	$45-50,000,000 (estimate)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy film 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. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 404 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (509 × 755 pixel, file size: 101 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Movie poster for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy distributed by Touchstone Pictures. ... Hammer & Tongs is the pseudonym of promo and movie director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith, as well as the name of their production company. ... Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... Robbie Stamp was born in 1960 and had his career in producing television documentaries when he met Douglas Adams, with whom he formed a great friendship. ... Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... Karey Kirkpatrick is a screenwriter. ... Martin Freeman (born September 8, 1971) is an English actor. ... Mos Def (born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.), is an American rapper and actor. ... Zooey Claire Deschanel (born January 17, 1980) is an American actress. ... Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... Bill Nighy (IPA: ; born December 12, 1949) is a Golden Globe and BAFTA-award winning English actor. ... Anna Chancellor as Questular Rontok in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Anna Chancellor (b. ... John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. ... Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Ireland. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 119th day of the year (120th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... The cover of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, from a late 1990s US printing. ... Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The screenplay was begun by Adams, and completed by Garth Jennings and Karey Kirkpatrick after Adams's death in 2001. Hammer & Tongs is the pseudonym of promo and movie director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith, as well as the name of their production company. ... Karey Kirkpatrick is a screenwriter. ...

Plot

The movie begins with the narrator (voiced by Stephen Fry) explaining that dolphins, the second most-intelligent mammals on Earth (humans being the third), have been trying to warn mankind about the impending destruction of Earth. Their backflips and swimming patterns, according to the Guide, are their way of communicating with humans. Considering their mission a failure, the dolphins decide to leave, after passing their final message So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker, journalist and television personality. ... This article is about the dolphin mammal. ... Orders Subclass Monotremata Monotremata Subclass Marsupialia Didelphimorphia Paucituberculata Microbiotheria Dasyuromorphia Peramelemorphia Notoryctemorphia Diprotodontia Subclass Placentalia Xenarthra Dermoptera Desmostylia Scandentia Primates Rodentia Lagomorpha Insectivora Chiroptera Pholidota Carnivora Perissodactyla Artiodactyla Cetacea Afrosoricida Macroscelidea Tubulidentata Hyracoidea Proboscidea Sirenia The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals primarily characterized by the presence of mammary... This article is about Earth as a planet. ...

One morning, waking to the sound of bulldozers encroaching upon his house, Arthur Dent realizes that his home is going to be destroyed to build a highway bypass. He tries to prevent the destruction of his home by lying in the path of the bulldozers. His attempts are interrupted by his friend Ford Prefect, who persuades Arthur to accompany him to the local pub, where he reveals that he is actually an alien (and not from Guildford after all). Information Species Human Gender Male Age 30 (approx. ... Mos Def as Ford Prefect (left), along with Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent (right), from the 2005 film adaptation. ... Pub redirects here. ... , For other places with the same name, see Guildford (disambiguation). ...

Ford and Arthur are "tortured" by Vogon poetry.

When Ford first came to Earth, he thought that cars were the dominant life form and tried to shake a moving one's hand. Arthur pulled him out of the road before he was run over. As a favour for saving his life, Ford rescues Arthur from certain death when the Earth is demolished by the Vogons to make way for a hyperspace bypass. The duo hitchhike aboard a Vogon ship, where they are thrown into empty space after being tortured by listening to the Vogon Captain's poetry (the third-worst in the universe). Image File history File links Vogon_poetry2. ... Image File history File links Vogon_poetry2. ... The Vogons are a fictional alien race in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams: Heres what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: Forget it. ...

They are rescued by the Heart of Gold. The ship was stolen by Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox, accompanied by Tricia McMillan, now calling herself Trillian, and Marvin the Paranoid Android. Heart of Gold is a fictional spaceship in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ... Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, from the TV adaptation. ... Zooey Deschanel as Trillian from the film adaptation. ... Information Species Android Gender Male Age Thirty-seven times older than the Universe itself Occupation Servant Created by Douglas Adams In the BBC TV series, the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot [like Marvin] as Your plastic pal whos fun to be with. Marvins...

Aboard the ship, Zaphod reveals his intention to visit the planet Magrathea using the Heart of Gold, which he stole for this purpose. He introduces the other characters to the story of the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, via a Magrathean data archive cube. Long ago, the people of Magrathea built the ultimate supercomputer, Deep Thought, to learn the Ultimate Answer. After several millennia of pondering, the computer declared that the Answer was "forty-two", and explained that the Ultimate Answer didn't make sense to them because no one knew exactly what the Ultimate Question was, an even more mysterious truth that even Deep Thought wasn't powerful enough to figure out. Deep Thought then told the people about an even more advanced computer which could be built which could ask the Ultimate Question. The recording ends, however, before the new computer's name could be announced. This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...

They take the ship to Viltvodle VI, home of the Jatravartids and Humma Kavula, who was Zaphod's opponent in the election for President of the Galaxy. Kavula has a small red cube that contains the coordinates to Magrathea, and offers it to Zaphod in exchange for a gun (the Point-of-view gun) that can be found near Deep Thought. Kavula requires a "hostage" in order to ensure that Zaphod will complete the quest, and removes Zaphod's second head (which is turned into a hula dancer bobblehead). This is a list of races, fauna and flora featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... The Point-of-view gun is a fictional device created by Douglas Adams for the movie version[1] of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and does not appear in any of the previous versions of the story. ... Deep Thought may refer to: Deep Thought, a fictional computer in the book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Deep Thought, an IBM-produced chess computer, named after the Hitchhikers Guides Deep Thought Deep Thought, a chatterbot made to work over IRC, named after the Hitchhikers... Hula kahiko performance in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Hula is often performed as a form of prayer at official state functions in Hawaii. ... A bobblehead doll is a type of collectible doll. ...

Ford, Arthur, and Zaphod attempt to save Trillian on Vogsphere.

During their departure from Viltvodle VI, Trillian is captured by the Vogons and brought to their homeworld, Vogsphere. Arthur, Ford, and Zaphod go to the Vogon homeworld and try to rescue Trillian. Upon stepping off their ship they briefly encounter subterraneous fauna that attack people who exhibit original thought, which they manage to evade once they reach an urban area. The excessive bureaucracy associated with many governing bodies is parodied when they are confronted by the amount of red tape that they must forge through to rescue Trillian. Image File history File links Ford-Arthur-Zaphod. ... Image File history File links Ford-Arthur-Zaphod. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      This article is about the sociological concept. ... Red tape (or sometimes paperwork) is a derisive term for excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making. ...

As Trillian is processed, she learns of the destruction of the Earth, which Arthur had not told her about. She also learns that Zaphod was the one who absent-mindedly signed the demolition order for Earth (thinking it was an autograph request, he signed it "Love & Kisses, Zaphod"). Arthur, Zaphod, and Ford manage to fill out the appropriate Presidential Prisoner Release forms to have Trillian released just before she is fed to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.Then the crew escapes Vogsphere. This is a list of races, fauna and flora featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...

Throughout the film, the Vogons remain in pursuit of Zaphod and the Heart of Gold, at the behest of the Galactic Vice-President Questular Rontok who wishes to "rescue" the President from his abductor (Zaphod abducted himself when he stole the Heart of Gold). The Heart of Gold heads for Magrathea. Zaphod, Trillian, and Ford meet Deep Thought and learn that the computer which could tell the Ultimate Question was in fact Earth itself, with the actions of all the creatures upon it part of the calculation. Arthur meets a man named Slartibartfast, and learns of Earth's true origin and how Slartibartfast worked for a company where planets like Earth were custom made, and even won an award for building the coasts of Norway. While touring the Magrathean Planet Factory Floor, Arthur is introduced to the Earth Mark II, a backup copy. He is eventually led to a perfect recreation of his home in England. There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ... There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...

Meanwhile, beneath Deep Thought, Zaphod, Trillian, and Ford find the Point-of-view gun, the object sought by Humma Kavula. According to the Guide, it was built by Deep Thought for a council of angry housewives who were tired of ending arguments by complaining to husbands that "you just don't get it, do you?" When fired, the Point-of-view gun causes the target to experience the point of view of the wielder. Trillian uses it to make Zaphod understand her conflicting feelings about their relationship. Perspective in theory of cognition is the choice of a context or a reference (or the result of this choice) from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience, cohesively forming a coherent belief, typically for comparing with another. ...

Back at Arthur's house, Arthur is reunited with Ford, Zaphod and Trillian, who are busy enjoying a lavish meal provided by the mice. But it is a trap to enable the mice to restrain Arthur and extract his brain, as it was one of the only components left from the Earth after its demolition, and is believed to have the Ultimate Question in it. Faced with his demise, Arthur finally expresses his love for Trillian, and Arthur breaks free from his restraints, and squishes the mice with a teapot. The flattened mice morph back into the representatives of the builders of Deep Thought before fading away.

The heroes exit Arthur's house, only to find themselves surrounded by a battalion of Vogon soldiers, who try to kill them. While Zaphod attempts to operate Arthur's "spaceship" (which is in fact just a caravan), Arthur and Trillian try to retrieve the dropped Point-of-view gun, but are forced to use the caravan as cover from the wild hail of fire the Vogons direct at them. Marvin goes to catch up with the rest, but he is hit in the back of the head by a Vogon blast. Just as it seems that they are doomed, Marvin reactivates and picks up the nearby Point-of-view gun. He fires, hitting all of the Vogons and exposing them to his perspective on life; they all instantly become incredibly depressed and collapse. Symbol of the Austrian 14th Armoured Battalion in NATO military graphic symbols This article is about the military unit. ... Utility trailer A Trailer is generally an unpowered vehicle pulled by a powered vehicle. ...

As the depressed Vogons are taken away and the final touches are applied to Earth Mark II, Slartibartfast asks Arthur if there is anything that the new Earth could do without; Arthur replies, "Yeah, me." Earth's life cycle is restarted just as it was before the Vogons demolished it, and the movie ends with Arthur and his companions, Rontok in tow, reboarding the Heart of Gold, bound for The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Cast

Principal cast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent: An "ordinary Earthman", from England, who winds up travelling the galaxy in his pyjamas, house robe, and carrying a towel.
• Mos Def as Ford Prefect: A researcher for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". He saves Arthur from the destruction of Earth because Arthur had saved his life years earlier.
• Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox: President of the Galaxy, who has kidnapped himself and stolen the Heart of Gold to pursue his own selfish schemes.
• Zooey Deschanel as Tricia McMillan: Who shortens her name to "Trillian" (because it's "something a little more spacy"). She ran away from Earth with Zaphod Beeblebrox just before most of the events in the movie, but over the course of the movie, she comes to dislike him.
• Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast: A coastline designer who reveals the real history of Earth to Arthur Dent.
• Warwick Davis as Marvin the Paranoid Android: Part of the equipment on the Heart of Gold. He is voiced by Alan Rickman.
• John Malkovich as Humma Kavula: A religious leader on the planet Viltvodle VI, and Zaphod's vanquished opponent in the recent Presidential election. This character was devised by Adams as the villain for an additional subplot of the movie, not present in previous incarnations of the story.
• Anna Chancellor as Questular Rontok: Vice-President of the Galaxy, she has allied with the Vogons to track down Zaphod
• Jack Stanley & Dominique Jackson as Lunkwill and Fook: The two people in charge of asking Deep Thought to calculate the Answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything
• Steve Pemberton as Prosser: The builder in charge of demolishing Arthur's house
• Albie Woodington as The Barman
• Jason Schwartzman as Gag Halfrunt
• Simon Jones as "Ghostly Image"
• Mark Longhurst as "Bulldozer Driver"
• Su Elliot 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 The voice of Eddie the Shipboard Computer
• 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: Leader of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
• Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton (The League of Gentlemen) as The voices of the Vogons
• Garth Jennings as The voice of Frankie Mouse
• Zoe Kubaisi as The voice of Benjy Mouse

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Production

In a Slashdot interview, Robbie Stamp, one of the film's executive producers, noted the following about the cast of the film:^[1] Slashdot, often abbreviated as /.[1], is a science, science fiction, and technology-related news website owned by SourceForge, Inc. ... Robbie Stamp was born in 1960 and had his career in producing television documentaries when he met Douglas Adams, with whom he formed a great friendship. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

• 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."

Preparations for the premiere of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Leicester Square

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• "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."

Differences from preceding versions

Main article: Differences in versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The sequence of events in the film generally resembles the story in prior editions. Although the radio series, books and TV series are famous for their inconsistencies, they each describe the same story until the characters get to Magrathea, except for some narrative rearrangement. The movie also rearranges the narration, but to a far greater extent than any of the other media. Not only are scenes omitted and reworked, but entire new storylines, characters and locations are introduced. The film also received some criticism for substantially reworking several of the most famous scenes, to the point that many of the most famous quotes from previous versions were omitted. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has appeared in nine different versions since its original radio series in 1978. ... This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...

Soundtrack

The front cover of the booklet included with the soundtrack to the Hitchhiker's movie.

The complete motion picture soundtrack was released as an iTunes Music Store exclusive (in the US and UK) on 12 April 2005, two weeks before the scheduled CD release. The iTunes Music Store also has two further exclusive sets of tracks related to the movie: Scan of the front cover of the CD booklet included with the soundtrack for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (movie). ... Scan of the front cover of the CD booklet included with the soundtrack for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (movie). ... In film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into ITunes. ... is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• The Marvin Mixes are remixes of a new version of Reasons To Be Miserable, here performed by Stephen Fry, as well as a new vocal and a new instrumental track for Marvin, also performed by Fry. Stephen Moore had recorded the vocals of both tracks in 1981.
• The Guide Entries are new spoken "Hitchhiker's Guide" entries, all read by Fry, with accompanying music by Joby Talbot (with further orchestrations by Christopher Austin), who wrote the film score.

The soundtrack CD was released on 26 April 2005, by Hollywood Records, a division of The Walt Disney Company. The CD has the same 33 tracks as the previous iTunes Music Store release. The enclosed booklet includes acknowledgements from Joby Talbot and notes on the creation of the song So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, written by Garth Jennings. Music sample Reasons To Be Miserable (file info) Problems? See media help. ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker, journalist and television personality. ... Audio sample Marvin was a single released in 1981 by Marvin, the Paranoid Android. ... Stephen Moore (born December 11, 1937) is a British actor from Brixton, London. ... The Guide Entries are four sound recordings available on the iTunes Music Store, read by Stephen Fry, and written by Fry and Joby Taylor (with the exception of the How to be Cool entry, which was also co-written by Tim Browse). ... Joby Talbot (born 1971) is a British composer. ... Christopher Austin (b. ... A score is a set of musical compositions written to accompany a film. ... Hollywood Records is a record label owned by Disney. ... Disney redirects here. ...

The track "Huma's Hymn" on the soundtrack is notable for the fact that it was sung in St. Michael's Church in Highgate, London by members of local church choirs along with a congregation consisting of members of the public. The recording was open to anyone wishing to attend, and was publicised on the internet, including in a post to the Usenet group alt.fan.douglas-adams.^[2] View of Highgate, John Constable, 1st quarter of 19th century. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Box office earnings

• The movie coincidentally made 4.2 Million in its first week in the UK.
• The movie made $21,103,203 in the USA in its opening weekend, opening in first place.
• The movie remained in the US box office top ten for its first four weeks of release.
• The movie's total box office gross was $104,478,416 worldwide (as of December 2006).^[3]

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Releases

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The movie was released on DVD (Region 2, PAL) in the UK on 5 September 2005. Both a standard double disc edition and a UK-exclusive "Gift Set" edition were released on this date. The standard double disc edition features: Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...

• Making Of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
• Additional Guide Entry
• Deleted Scenes
• Really Deleted Scenes (scenes that were never meant to be in the movie)
• Sing A Long
• Audio Commentaries
• Set Top Games Marvins Hangman
• Don't Crash (68 minute UK exclusive "making of" documentary, directed by Grant Gee)

The "Gift Set" edition includes a copy of the novel with a "movie tie-in" cover, and collectible prints from the film, packaged in a replica of the film's version of the Hitchhiker's Guide prop. Grant Gee is a film director most noted for his documentary about the britpop rock group Radiohead, Meeting People Is Easy (1999), which followed the band on their tour for their highly acclaimed third album, OK Computer (1997). ...

Single disc widescreen and full-screen editions (Region 1, NTSC) were released in the USA and Canada on 13 September 2005. They have a different cover, but contain the same special features (except the Don't Crash documentary) as the UK version.

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Links to previous productions

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• At the beginning of the film, Mos Def as Ford Prefect pushes a cart filled with cans of beer past a sign for the village of "Cottington" — a reference to the radio series.
• The original Marvin prop from the 1981 TV version of the story can be seen in one scene, in a queue on Vogsphere, albeit with orange eyes, instead of the original red. Arthur, while passing, does a double-take at this Marvin.
• The theme tune for the BBC radio and TV series, "Journey of the Sorcerer", composed by Bernie Leadon and originally recorded by The Eagles, is used. The music as heard in the film is a new arrangement by Joby Talbot.
• "What a Wonderful World", sung by Louis Armstrong, was used as background music for the first part of the film's teaser trailer. This song was also used at the conclusion of the first radio series and at the conclusion of the BBC TV series, both set on prehistoric Earth.
• Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent in the radio and TV series, makes a brief cameo appearance. He is credited as the "Ghostly Image", a floating head which appears when the Heart of Gold approaches Magrathea, and warns them that the planet is currently not open for business. When they continue approaching the planet, he reappears and politely informs them that two thermonuclear missiles are headed towards the ship, and their (presumably imminent) deaths "may be recorded for training purposes." He then grins and floats away.
• One of the planets in the Magrathean display case is Shada, from the uncompleted Doctor Who serial of the same name that was written by Adams in 1979.

• Adams makes four "appearances" in the film - a planet in the shape of his head can briefly be seen during the Magrathean Planet Factory Tour sequence; the entrance to the Temple of the Great Green Arkleseizure on Viltvodle VI is in the shape of his nose; he can be seen on the mural depicting the discovery of the Infinite Improbability Drive; and during the Heart Of Gold's final improbability transformation, the last form the ship takes is that of his face.
• Deep Thought has a logo for Apple Computer just to the right and above its electronic eye (which can be seen in closeups when Ford, Trillian and Zaphod are speaking to the computer). It is said Douglas Adams owned the first two Apple Macintosh computers to enter the UK and that Stephen Fry, who is the voice of the Guide, allegedly owned the third. (It is elsewhere reported that Adams owned the second Macintosh in the UK, while the first belonged to Fry.)
• Ford's last name is never mentioned in dialogue in the film, though the character is listed as "Ford Prefect" when first introduced in the screenplay and when listed in the credits. Also, Ford is called "Ix" by Zaphod when they meet on the Heart of Gold, which is Ford's previous nickname; this is the first time in any format other than the book that the nickname is mentioned, though it is without context in the film. (This corrects a continuity error of the previous formats, where Zaphod greets "Ford", despite the fact that this was a name adopted for use on Earth.)
• According to the DVD audio commentary, director Edgar Wright played one of Deep Thought's on-screen technicians. Wright had previously directed Hitchhiker's stars Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy in Shaun of the Dead and his new film Hot Fuzz features Freeman and Nighy as well, with the director of Hitchhiker's Guide,Garth Jennings appearing in an uncredited cameo role in Hot Fuzz as a Kalishnakov carrying crack dealer, which is shown in the behind the scenes features on the special edition DVD of Hot Fuzz.
• In the flashback scene when Arthur saves Ford from being hit by a car, the car was an actual Ford Prefect.
• The animations of the book were made by the UK-based design studio Shynola.
• In one of the trailers, as Arthur Dent wakes up and shuts off his alarm clock, it reads "7:42". The Alarm clock is sitting on a book by Kurt Vonnegut, whose own writings Adams' were compared to, and next to a BBC ID badge for Arthur Dent. This was not used in the actual movie.^[5]
• The theatrical release of the film includes references to the titles of every Hitchhiker novel, with the exception of Mostly Harmless. A scene that would have used the phrase was filmed, but cut before the movie's release. (The original novel did contain references to all of the titles). The deleted scene is available on the DVD's deleted scenes feature.
• The dolphin scenes at the beginning of the film were made at Loro Parque in Tenerife.
• During the panic scenes in the beginning of the movie several members of Adams' family participated. The elderly woman calmly reading a newspaper is Douglas Adams' mother.
• The scene where Arthur Dent and Trillian meet at the party contains a nod to Douglas Adams' interest in evolution. Arthur stands reading The Selfish Gene by Adams' friend Richard Dawkins, and Trillian is dressed as Darwin.
• Trillian's desire to visit Madagascar also relates to a trip Douglas took to study some of the vanishing species of the island for his book Last Chance to See.
• Su Elliot, credited as "Pub Customer", reportedly played Trillian in one of the stage adaptations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
• This PG-rated film was originally slated as a Hollywood Pictures release, but was instead released by Touchstone Pictures, because Hollywood Pictures was retired as a distributor.
• During Simon Jones' cameo appearance as the warning system at Magrathea, it appears as if it would become three dimensional with red/blue 3-D glasses, but it is only a gimmick. It doesn't actually become 3D, and if you look closely, he's only rimmed with red and blue. If it were a real 3D effect his whole face would be blurred with red/blue overlays.
• The song So Long and Thanks for All the Fish was considered for a possible nomination (coincidentally, out of a list of 42 songs) in the Academy Award for Best Song category for the 78th Annual Academy Awards. Ultimately, the song was not nominated.
• In the U.S. release of the DVD, in the second half of the Deep Thought scene, the computer's declaration that the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42 approximately coincides with the timer for the film reading 42:00.
• An Easter egg can be found on the DVD. Occasionally when pressing the "Improbability Drive Button" which takes you to random scenes on the DVD, the cartoon that Deep Thought was watching will come up and one can view it in its entirety. If played in Windows Media Player, this comes up as Title 52.
• In the scene when Arthur and Slartibartfast are in the place with the planet examples, right behind them is a display case with the doll from the wool scene of Marvin, can be seen.

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Awards

The movie was nominated for seven different awards and won one of them. It won the Golden Trailer Award under the category Most Original.^[6] It was nominated for: the Artios award from Casting Society of America, USA under the category Best Featured Film Casting-Comedy in 2005; the Empire Awards from Empire Awards, UK under the categories Best British Film and Best Comedy in 2006; the Golden Trailer from Golden Trailer Awards under the category Best Voice Over; and Teen Choice Award from Teen Choice Awards under the categories Choice Movie: Action/Adventure and Choice Rap Artist in a Movie: Mos Def.^[7]

Sequel

While members of the cast had been signed for a potential sequel, the movie's modest box office gross earnings, particularly in the United States, have made any prospects of a potential sequel movie very unlikely. Garth Jennings commented in May 2006, "There won't be a sequel. We were all signed up but it didn't make enough money." Later in the same interview Jennings jokingly added, "It might get dusted off - I might still be contracted to do it!".^[8]

Notes

References

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy UK Region 2 DVD Release, 2005. Includes commentaries by Garth Jennings, Nick Goldsmith, Martin Freeman and Bill Nighy, and Robbie Stamp with Sean Sollé. Also includes the documentary Don't Crash: The Making of the Film of the Novel of the Radio Series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
• Stamp, Robbie, editor (2005). The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Filming of the Douglas Adams Classic. Boxtree. ISBN 0-7522-2585-5. 

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External links

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Hitchhiker's Portal

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) at the Internet Movie Database
• "Hitchhiker Movie FAQ with FUA"

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Owners' sites

• Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Movie Site (UK)
• Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Movie Site (USA)
• Official Teaser Trailer

Interviews

• Interview with executive producer Robbie Stamp, from Slashdot
• Online chat with executive producer Robbie Stamp
• Online chat with director Garth Jennings

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Independent reviews

• Washington Post "...more than a pleasant surprise."
• San Francisco Chronicle "The movie hangs together and gets by with more than a margin of goodwill because the dazzle it offers is one of the mind."
• New York Times "...hugely likeable..."
• BBC - Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Don't panic - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is not as bad as I had feared. Then again, it is not as good as I had hoped."
• The Register "The film version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is faithful to author Douglas Adams' legacy. The trouble is it's simply not especially funny."
• Rotten Tomatoes Reviews by professional critics.
• DVD Review Of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
• YoursDaily.com Review of the movie in comparison with the book.

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Portal:Hitchhiker's	v • d • e The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By Douglas Adams
Books:	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 | Mostly Harmless | Young Zaphod Plays it Safe | The Original Radio Scripts | The Salmon of Doubt
Media:	Radio series (Phases 1 & 2, Phases 3, 4 & 5) | TV series | Movie | Computer game | Differences between versions | Cast lists
Characters:	Arthur Dent | Ford Prefect | Zaphod Beeblebrox | Marvin | Trillian | Slartibartfast | The Guide | Minor characters | Races and species
Places:	List of places | Total Perspective Vortex | Heart of Gold | Wikkit Gate | Starship Titanic | Galactic Empire | Whole Sort of General Mish Mash
Miscellanea:	The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything | 42 Puzzle | Babel fish | Bistromathic drive | h2g2 | Infinidim Enterprises | Infinite Improbability Drive | International Phenomenon | Notable phrases | Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster | Point-of-view gun | Somebody Else's Problem field | Sirius Cybernetics Corporation | Towel Day | Vogon poetry
See also:	Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion | Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams | Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy