Green Wing and Free Agents star Stephen Mangan is to play the lead role in BBC4's adaptation of the late Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
Mangan will be joined by Darren Boyd as his sidekick Richard MacDuff and Cold Feet and Friends actor Helen Baxendale, as MacDuff's girlfriend Susan.
Adapted by the Bafta-winning writer Howard Overman – who is also behind Misfits, Vexed and Merlin – Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency follows the exploits of Adams's chaotic character as he uses his unusual methods to solve crimes.
Mangan said: "I've been a fan of Douglas Adams ever since the Hitchhiker's radio series which I used to record as a child and listen to over and over again in my bedroom. It's such a thrill to now be playing one of his brilliant characters.
"Dirk is a chaotic, anarchic force of nature with a totally unique take on the world. He is described as 'lazy, untidy, dismissive and unreliable'. I've absolutely no idea why they thought I'd be right for the role."
The Dirk Gently books have formed the basis of a play and a BBC Radio 4 series but have never before been filmed for TV.
Adams's agent, Ed Victor, said: "For all the years I represented the late, great Douglas Adams, the most substantial frustration for both of us was that we couldn't get films made either of Hitchhiker or Dirk.
"Douglas once said, memorably, that 'getting a film made in Hollywood was like trying to cook a steak by having a bunch of people come into the room and breathe on it'. Well, we did eventually get a film made in Hollywood of Hitchhiker and, tragically, Douglas didn't live to see it. Nor will he see this adaptation of Dirk – but it's worth bearing in mind that Douglas always thought Dirk would make a better film than Hitchhiker and I feel sure that this new TV drama with a terrific script by Howard Overman will prove his point."
Shooting begins this week in Bristol on the 60-minute drama, which is being made by ITV Studios in association with the Welded Tandem Picture Company.
The Dirk Gently production is to be directed by Damon Thomas – who also directed BBC4 drama The First Men in the Moon – and will air early next year.
漫威你给我好好去写X战警好吗别整这些有的没的了。
虽然没有范式规定漫威电影的风格，但起码叙事能力是要有的，赵婷还是想以自己那种苍茫大地的文艺影像来打破漫威爆米花的属性，的确拍出来没那么娱乐了，但和她理想高度相差甚远，甚至节奏都是乱的，困在硕大母题里的人物也含糊不清，女主全程苦大仇深，和我的观影心情保持一致。
漫威火了这么多年，粉丝爽点也越提越高，留给未来可走的路径越来越少，独树一帜的话很容易走偏，快要黔驴技穷了
其实还行吧，美术摄影真的很棒啊，仿佛还在nomad land，剧情弱和老套是意料之中了，期待赵婷多拍点啊
有很喜欢的点也有很不喜欢的点.. mixed feeling
用了一个多星期、分了四次终于勉强看完，看似史诗宏大，实际卡通幼稚，特效动作场面基本全是copy，这种烂大街了的故事主题怎么还在拍？漫威请赵婷来拍确实眼光独到，但怎么协调也是个超级难题。另外，朱莉最帅。
六眼巨人、末世、汪洋大海、来毁灭地球的使徒….致敬EVA？他们飞船里那红色的神雕像的身形就很EVA
一个中国国籍在美国电影让黑人夹日本私货，离谱
zz正确的打击是否纯属多想。科技永远是藏在历史逻辑背后的真实动因，神话是人类尚无法理解的可掌握的技术。爱和珍视是连神族都会艳羡的感受，有的神族也是卑微的打工人。科幻电影这样令人印象深刻以及大手笔地刻画外星人在地球文明留下痕迹，之前还是买拷贝的《变形金刚》系列
只能说，没想到这么ZZZQ，没想到这么流水账，更没想到朱莉竟然是配角，现在漫威宇宙在好莱坞这么香吗？
特效其实挺适合电影院的，不过漫威说不准进入广电黑名单了，蜘蛛侠应该也无了。
果然——烂番茄不喜欢，我就不讨厌。
但作为一个系列首部曲，一上来这么多角色没有拍乱也是很有功力的。动作很强摄影很美，画面风格迥异于复联和银护，有点期待后续的联动。
高华为啥这么喜欢在俯视角度进行道德批判，nc东西。
永恒族分别的地方不是特诺奇蒂特兰吗，怎么变成亚马孙了又……||五指山の诞生||看了一圈大家对永恒族的吐槽，大家光吐槽黑人看见广岛被核平抱头痛哭，但这一段剧情我很能理解。反而我觉得最有意思的剧情是萨尔玛·海耶克阻止大家干涉西班牙人攻打特诺奇蒂特兰，我简直要怀疑这个角色是故意找的墨西哥人来演了。
写神（非人）的故事真的好难，因为归根结底还是要写人，又太高高在上，太悬浮，无法与社会这个大幻想勾连起来。《X战警》是写非人争取人权，《蝙蝠侠》是写人与自身异化的对抗，都是很成功的超英。这个故事也有一个点“为什么拥有力量却不去阻止人类的自相残杀”，全能的人却陷入无能的困境，这本该是有戏可唱的
克洛伊赵作为一个中国人 有功夫心疼广岛被炸的日本人 不如多看看被鬼子侵略过的中华土地曾经怎样的满目疮痍
Hello haven’t seen you serval thousand years! Goodbye, see you another serval thousand years. It’s hard to make a commercial movies with literary way. Those artistic scenes were quite good though the comedic parts were not working. Guess no one wants to add those boring jokes in their art work. I will take that as a compromise.
有很多西方文化的基因。混合了东方的一些传说。作为殖民者。现在欧洲、美国总是妄图重新塑造世界。以西方的标准衡量全世界，衡量全宇宙。唯我独尊，不合我意的就要推倒重来，你们都是源于我的，都是我的低级附庸。
天神族捏小人儿捏得元素齐全：圣母亚裔女主，超人白人男主，宝莱坞印度搞笑男，基佬黑人科学家，大力亚裔男厨子，美艳白人女战神，残疾黑人少女，瘦高白人丑男。（Jon Snow还是know nothing。
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