The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) on Netflix
PG20051h 49mAdventureComedySci-Fi
Arthur Dent finds his house is to be demolished for a bypass. His friend Ford Prefect reveals he is not human, and that the Vogons have come to demolish the Earth.
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Plot summary
Bulldozers arrive outside Arthur Dent's house on a Thursday morning, and he lies down in front of them; the house is coming down for a bypass. Ford Prefect talks him into the pub instead and there admits that he comes from a planet near Betelgeuse and writes for a universal guide book. He warns that the Earth itself is scheduled for demolition that day, to clear room for a hyperspace route. When the Vogon fleet appears, Ford gets himself and Arthur aboard one of the ships. The planet is destroyed. A passing vessel, the Heart of Gold, then takes them in, and its crew includes Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian and the android Marvin.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Douglas Adams refused film offers from an unnamed producer and from the ABC network during the 1970s, fearing they wanted to turn the work into "Star Wars with jokes". He signed an option with Ivan Reitman in 1982, but Aykroyd proposed a different story to Reitman, which became the basis for Ghostbusters.
- Movement on the film was quiet until around 2001, when director Jay Roach secured a new deal with Adams and production through Disney. Roach sought Spike Jonze to direct, Hugh Laurie to play Arthur and Jim Carrey as Zaphod, but then Adams died on 11 May 2001.
- The track "Humma's Hymn" was sung in St Michael's Church in Highgate, London by members of local church choirs and a congregation of members of the public; the recording was open to anyone and was publicised in a post to the Usenet group alt.fan.douglas-adams.
- Simon Jones, who portrayed Arthur Dent in both the BBC radio and BBC television adaptations of Hitchhiker's, makes a cameo appearance in the film as the Ghostly Image.
- The total box office gross was $104,478,416 worldwide, but according to Freeman, Jennings told him the film did not perform well enough for a sequel to be made.
