Whee! I’ve been itching to see this teaser – just unveiled at the San Diego Comic Con – so I was more than a little pleased to get an email this morning directing me over to CHUD, where they’ve apparently got bandwidth to burn. Yeah, there’s not much there in terms of footage, but the tone is perfect and the production values on this thing beat the total production expense of the entire BBC television show combined. Not that that would be difficult, really. Click here to view the trailer and here to check out the film’s website. I was mighty skeptical at first but it looks as though Douglas Adams’ masterpiece is finally getting the film it deserves … Thanks to Tracy for the heads up …
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The tone is perfect, and hilarious if you read the book(s?)… I think.
-Owl
You need the DivX codec to watch the teaser. It’s hardly worth the bother. The entire teaser is just graphics of space with taglines superimposed over them. Not a single character shot.
I am painfully aware of the shitness of dialup, believe me.
I’ve now tried watching the file with Media Player Classic and it still doesn’t work. I get the sound but the only picture is that of the text message.
You, sir, need a better internet connection. The teaser’s about a minute, minute and a half long.
there’s not much there in terms of footage
Is this meant to be code for “there’s nothing to see but the message saying the preview has been passed for all audiences”? Cos that was all the file I downloaded had. After 30 minutes download time, I am not amused.
Oops … dropped an ‘s’ … fixed now …
Link to the movie site doesn’t work. Correct link is: http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/main.html