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.
睡前看一遍 做梦梦一遍 好耶 明天可以准时被吓醒了！ PS：这个片子太意识流了 很猎奇很邪典 能看出来有反战的意思 批判西方永不止息的战争和愚蠢 但是几乎没有剧情和对白的电影注定小众 对我来说花了这么多年做出来这部电影真的让我回想到八九十年代和20世纪初美国电影的生命力、开创性和匠心 不像现在充满了工业流水线的风格 片中的景象和我做的梦一样 一个压抑恐怖又绝望的地狱 一堆无意识的话语 一群诡异而残暴的生物 一片疯狂并且野蛮的人类
定格/粘土动画做成这样已经很牛逼了，作为猎奇向的动画也非常出类拔萃。
奥古斯丁说，“不要因为追求理解而失去了祂”。值得一看，但基本没看懂。以下是胡说：一种令人作呕的人文主义关怀（？），以通天塔的坍塌作为开篇，然后把整个故事放在《圣经》（或《神曲》）的故事框架中，让一个无名小卒去炸毁地狱，以这个小人儿（但丁）的视角勾勒出地狱的场景。地狱，是一个朋克到极致的工业社会，阎王爷是电脑里的娃儿（《喜马拉雅星》？），然后管理者是睾丸变成乳房的四腿哺乳动物，受惩罚的当然是由💩幻化而成的打工人了。打工人命如草芥，因工伤而死也无人问津，还时不时要去听一听巨婴领导的训话（？）。后面就没看懂了…..龙纹身的女孩儿把婴儿大蛞蝓献祭给了格格巫，格格巫又用魔药创造了宇宙，最后不忘像《太空漫游》致敬一下，砖头一样的iPhone在看着你，诞生出了尼采的超人～大致的意思是“毁灭吧，世界！”。
前半段还挺震撼的，观感又新又老，上回看这么不知所云的片子还是《迷墙》
很重口 简直了 这片子真的简直了 想说些什么 但啥也说不出来
它不一定好看，但是你找不出跟它一类的作品。肮脏潮湿无序混乱，这个作品其实更像是《Heavy Metal》杂志的一次动画化，它不一定属于这个时代，但是它只能在这个时代被实现。时钟跳动那一段我是在困倦无比半梦半醒的状态下看的，非常带感，仿佛是但丁再一次游览地狱。
当然也可以简单的理解为
如果是游戏cg，这款游戏我肯定会玩，但问题是电影，实在难以理解里面内容，跟装逼电影一线之差，可里面的怪物造型和定格形式去表现还是可以，看得出有想法...
在我眼里真的不能再垃圾了！
很顶，四舍五入有我的梦一半那么HiFi吧
邪典具象符号隐喻之作，血腥暴力的无限轮回。
好恶哈哈哈那块黑色长方体坠落到星球上，我们：2001太空漫游！😂
非常奇特的想象力，也很有视觉冲击力，但主题有些晦涩难懂。
人类世，以及我们所经历的，我们所吸收的，我们所窥见的，我们所幻想的，我们所践踏的，我们所扭曲的。War，war never changes，巴别塔到核冬天地下世界，草泥人到丑陋的枷锁巨兽，古埃及到特斯拉电弧，兵马俑到E.T.养殖，其实这个世界从古至今从未改变。飘着走的“瘟疫医生”有点《血源诅咒》里梅高的奶妈既视感（9.6/10）
这猎奇的风格，不适的画面，宗教的讽刺，性本恶，人是罪恶的，神也是。
定格动画的布景能做到这种程度令人惊叹。前30min还像是线性的故事，随后就真得就是一个无比诡谲多变的梦魇，试图从中去理解具体的意义本身就反意义，如同做梦一样，感觉大于内容本身。
很新颖的观影体验 定格cult 是很酷但这是在表达什么 与其说是电影 不如说是一部艺术设定集
观影前半段真的恶心到我了，血肉横飞毁灭重生，在这里，看到什么都不要觉得奇怪，深层的含义不想去想，单纯的过过眼瘾感受脑洞。
。。。用网文的思路去看顿时就好理解了，上古战争灭世，天魔横行奴役三界，为了推翻魔道人类不断派遣修士，结果被魔头挖出元婴，翻手间创世灭世（doge）
看得人都要疯了。一味的脏乱差，恶心人然后都不知道讲啥。
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