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.
7.5，近年来印度电影佳作频出，博采众长、表现出惊人的成长，逐渐摆脱“歌舞片”之刻板印象。两小时四十分的时长导致叙事略显拖沓，整体上情绪＞叙事，但胜在承继于歌舞片传统的情绪调动能力，情节数次反转之间情绪渐高。还有令人惊叹的主题承载：体制、媒体、女性主义、阶级、政治等等，更讶异的是各方主题完成度都算不错，并且与剧情融合极佳。
所以，这部阿三片看了十分钟，我以为又是探讨强奸问题的（毕竟，这已经是阿三们挥之不去的顽疾了）。看了一个小时，我以为是警察化身法外裁决者的爽片。但是，怎么可能？这部片子长达161分钟，一个小时过后，当我们以为了解了事情的来龙去脉的时候，后半段进入了精彩的法庭辩论，真相层层剥开，反转再反转，激荡人心的配乐，看得人心潮澎湃。短短161分钟的电影，涉及到了强奸、校园腐败、种姓制度、政治黑暗、媒体导向，也深刻的反省了法学理论中很重要的一个议题:实体正义和程序正义哪一个更重要？
总有人说，印度电影可真敢拍啊，韩国人可真敢拍啊，我有点怀疑，有没有一种可能，在某些地方拍片子并不需要那么多勇气，不需要克服什么恐惧感，也不存在什么敢或者不敢，人家只是正常拍个电影而已。
仿佛彼只需吼一些我们所不能言的口号，
落后的国家，落后的体制，竟然为了博取选民的投票而费劲心思操控司法和媒体，真是笑死我了，还好我在中国
突然觉得 很无奈
四星全给题材 如果不是题材 真的没办法给一部2个多小时的MV这么多星……
情绪被配乐塞得很满，慢镜头多到想两倍速，探讨的议题也不新鲜（我们拍不出不代表主题很新）。这片子更多的分都是打给“片子之外的共情分”吧，片子本身没啥意思。
为了反转而反转，剧情夸张，音乐夸张，但有一些台词写得不错。
基本叙事框架还没搭好就已情绪先行。
还是很好看的，比如舆论煽动什么的，然后那个副警官可能因为被政客耍了，让老警员举报自己玉石俱焚，然后辩护律师也是被那个政客坑的，来复仇的😂另外死的女教授还有律师的妻子都是穆斯林啊，南印是不是也很多穆斯林。。。
甚至无须作鞭辟入里的有力剖析表达，
一边跪，一边哭。
反转挺有意思…还是和之前我评论的另一部电影类似，像是抓住了一个社会典型现象的问题点，然后硬拓展出来的假想故事，还是有一些逻辑漏洞的…如果我们要靠编造完美切题的故事来影射一个社会问题中微小的点（舆论影响观念），然后蜻蜓点水地带上几个幕后剧（各种典型社会问题），这显得有一些过于取巧…
仅几部印度电影不断刷新深度高度……评本片，用警察总督对副手的那句台词：“这就是政治”！
7.9分左右。
权力滥用，民粹主义，体制之殇……
由性犯罪到学阀制下的学术垄断，抽丝剥茧却原来都是政治的筹码，法庭陈述还请诸位对照观看，看的我是无味杂陈、肝气郁结。是什么时候左邻与右舍开始甩开我们，叩问反思、揭露针砭，谁是宿敌？正义，还是tm的正义；人民，还是tm的人民！
前半一个多小时看得我又想笑又恶心，拥挤的音乐和疯狂的煽情填满了每一处空间，根本没有节奏可言，一段又一段的内容接连放送，没有剧情只有信息。后面我承认反转是令人震撼的，角色拉黑又洗白也是厉害，但片子真的信息塞爆，因此没有任何一个段落得到充分有效的发挥，角色也令人难以共情，甚至难以令人信服。多给一星纯粹是为了律师演员和男政治老师、死去女老师的颜，少量足够力量的台词，以及不少撕破摊开的印度黑幕。只可惜片子的主题在我看来，依旧只是几乎所有人都在为自己的私心服务。
题材大胆，多重反转，已经很好看了，秒杀如今的一众国产电影
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