The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Giftpack

Starring: Martin Freeman, Mos Def Original UK Premiere: 2005 Dvd Release: 5th September, 2005 Number Of Discs: 2 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English

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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams that debuted as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Since then it has been adapted to other formats, slowly becoming a multi-media phenomenon over a span of several years. Adaptations have included stage shows ; a series of five books first published between 1979 & 1992, ; a 1981 TV series ; a 1984 computer game ; & three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels, published by DC Comics between 1993 & 1996. There have also been a series of towels that are considered by some to be canonical, as they include text from the first novel. A Hollywood-funded film version, produced & filmed in the UK, was released in April 2005 & adaptations of the last three books to radio were broadcast from 2004 to 2005. Many of these adaptations, including the novels, the TV series, the computer game & the earliest drafts of the Hollywood films screenplay, were all done by Adams himself & some of the stage shows debuted new material written by Adams. Posters Of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

Dont panic! After twenty years stuck in development , The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has finally been turned into a movie. Following the radio play, TV series, commemorative towel, & books, this latest installment in the sci-fi-comedy franchise is based on the screenplay & detailed notes by Douglas Adams. For those unfamiliar with the story, everyman Arthur Dent wakes up one morning to discover that his house is set to be demolished to make room for a bypass. Little does he know the entire planet Earth is also set to be destroyed for an interplanetary bypass by the Vogons, a hideous & bureaucratic race of aliens realized in the film by Jim Hensons Creature Shop. Whisked off the planet by his best friend, alien-in-disguise Ford Prefect , Dent embarks on a goofy jaunt across the galaxy accompanied by his trusty Hitchhikers Guide, which looks like a really fancy PDA. The guide itself provides some of the funniest bits of the movie, little animated shorts that explain the ludicrous life forms & extraterrestrial phenomena our heroes encounter. Along the way Arthur meets the two-headed party animal/president of the galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox & develops an unrequited crush on fellow earthling Trillian . The creatures & sets are inspired & answer to the sci-fi fans primal need to see lots & lots of cool stuff. Where the story stumbles is in the telling, as books, the Hitchhikers Guide was foremost about goofy & brilliant ideas that raised questions about our place in the universe while getting a laugh. The movie has enough trouble figuring out how to get the characters from one fantastical location to the next that Adamss funniest concepts often feel left in the dust. While the reverence the filmmakers felt toward Adamss legacy is apparent, one wonders what we could have expected had the creator of this science fiction universe lived to see it with his own eyes.

Mos Def is a Brooklyn -born rapper & actor, who actually began his performing career on The Cosby Mysteries in 1994. He switched to rap music & worked with De La Soul & da Bush Babees before releasing his own first single, Universal Magnetic which was a huge underground hit, he then became involved with Rawkus Records. Mos Def & Talib Kweli released Black Star, a full length album, in 1998, with DJ Hi-Tek as producer. Mos Def released his solo debut, Black on Both Sides, in 1999. After the collapse of Rawkus, Mos along with Talib signed on to Interscope/Geffen. An earlier generation of rappers, including Brand Nubian & De La Soul, had made some groundbreaking, thoughtful rap music. They had been replaced by gangsta rap though & Mos Def was one of the principal causes of a revival in such socially aware rap, which also involved Kweli, Common & others. He returned to acting in 2000 & has starred in Monsters Ball, Bamboozled, the 2003 remake of the The Italian Job & the 2004 film The Woodsman. Posters Of Mos Def

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