What is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything? To find out, you can watch Hulu’s upcoming TV adaptation of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
The new show is coming to us via Lost showrunner Carlton Cuse and Wonder Woman co-writer Jason Fuchs, per Deadline. Hitchhiker’s Guide follows the intergalactic adventures of hapless Englishman Arthur Dent, who’s set adrift in the universe after Earth is destroyed by a race of extremely unpleasant aliens called the Vogons. But really, no logline can describe how terrifically strange this series is. There are super-intelligent dolphins, self-obsessed two-headed aliens, a restaurant at the end of the universe, and on and on and on.
The series is prone to tangents, which has made it hard to adapt. The 2005 movie, for example, was…okay…but it had to be a movie at the end of the day, which meant it couldn’t flow as freely as Adams’ prose demanded:
There was also a British TV version from the ’70s, but it was lacking in funds:
Longform TV seems like the best place for a Hitchhiker’s Guide adaptation, especially now, when networks are willing to spend good money on genre shows. Cuse and Fuchs are both fans of Hitchhiker’s Guide, so hopefully this take will do justice to Douglas Adams’ wild and wonderful vision.
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We don’t know anything about casting or a release date yet. So long and thanks for all the information.
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