The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [2005] (1 disc)

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• This film has been in "Development Hell" for over twenty years. At one point, Douglas Adams insisted it would be made "sometime before the last Trump". Just prior to his death, a deal was almost in place with Jay Roach directing and staring Hugh Laurie (Arthur), Jim Carrey (Zaphod Beeblebrox) and the late Nigel Hawthorne (Slartibartfast).
• Ford's last name (Prefect) is never used. The joke, according to Douglas Adams, was lost on American readers because the Ford Prefect was never available in the United States.
• Belgium (which, according to the original radio series, is the most unspeakably rude word there is) can be heard in the movie three or so times.
• When Ford and Zaphod first great each other on the Heart of Gold, Zaphod calls Ford "Ix" and then quickly corrects himself. In the novel, "Ix" was a nickname that Ford's childhood schoolmates gave him.
• The car that Ford Prefect "introduces himself to" is actually a Ford Prefect, from whence Ford got his "Earth name". Despite being a Ford, the car was never manufactured or sold in the US, but produced in Ireland, the UK, Malaysia, and New Zealand, and sold in Europe, Asia, and Australia between 1938 and 1959.
• Bill Murray was also considered for the part of Zaphod Beeblebrox, along with Will Ferrell and Robert Downey Jr., but after Sam Rockwell's audition, director Garth Jennings immediately chose him.
• Douglas Adams' face appears as a planet during Slartibartfast's tour of the galaxy.
• Use 3-D glasses for the Magrathean message.
• As the Heart of Gold Spaceship travels through "improbability" it quickly transforms into many strange shapes (including a rubber duck) in the very final transformation at the end of the film it quickly transforms into the face of author/creator Douglas Adams
• The old lady sitting at the street side table oblivious to or uninterested in what's going on around her is Douglas Adams's mother. The director didn't give any acting directions to her or anybody else in the scene for what they were suppose to do, to simulate chaos, so she just sat there reading a newspaper.