Reports from Hitchhiker's Guide presentation

[Mr. Teatime]

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This past weekend <strong>Robbie Stamp</strong>, the Executive Producer on the <a href="http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/">Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film</a>,
was in Wondercon, San Francisco to do some promotion for the movie. He
showed stills and a new trailer that sounds completely different from
the <a href="http://www.duckandcover.cx/forums/viewt ... 11289">one that's been released</a> on the internet.


You can read reports from people who attended the event <a href="http://www.douglasadams.se/forum/viewto ... t=2970">on Douglas Adams Continuum</a>. Here's something from one of them:

<blockquote><em>
This was the trailer the true fans would have been wating for.. i'm
sure MJ would have loved it. It was a total parody on normal hollywood
trailers. It opens with the guide opening and says "This is what the
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy has to say about trailers..."




And from there its wonderful satire. a few of the aspects i can
recall are the "Often trailers contain a deep voice saying "IN A
WORLD...." and then they show the earth explode, and the guides voice
continues "But sometimes not."




Another great bit is in the middle they say something like. "And
then a random shot of a girl in a binkini" (non movie footage.) then
immediately after marvin hangs his head and says "That did absolutely
nothing for me."




It was uttlerly fantastic and had the audience cracking up the
entire time. It concludes talking about how most trailers conclude with
a montage usually set to rock music, and listing what it contains
"Action, heroes, villians, dolphins," etc. and even a brief shot of a
whale dropping from space.</em>







</blockquote>
Sounds pretty good to me, and much more in keeping with the style of
the books than the first trailer which was a bit too hollywood for my
liking.


It seems the people making the film are trying to please everyone, from
the hardcore fans to the people who have never read the books; even
going to the extent of releasing two radically different trailers, one
for each group. It's a strange strategy because it can be easily argued
that the books don't need to be glamourised to sell themselves.
Regardless, I am optimistic about the film's quality.
<p>Spotted @ <a href="http://www.douglasadams.se/">Douglas Adams Continuum</a></p>

[Fez]

Who gives a shit what the trailer looks like? The film can be awful or awesome despite the trailer. I'll wait until I hear some opinions of those who saw the film or see it myself first.

If they do ruin it I hope they bury the whole crew alive next to Douglas.

[Smiley]

This movie has to be good...

I mean, they can't all be bad, right?

...


Right....?

Otherwise we'll just have to raise our pitchforks and shotguns, and all march over there and do whatever pitchfork-and-shotgun/torch-wielding-ppl do..

[St. Toxic]

We can build a farm and live like in the 70's. That'd be awesome.

[ApTyp]

Well here's the thing. Everyone knows trailers that look a hell of a lot better than movies themselves. So why should a bad trailer be an indicator that the movie will suck?