ABC Studios will create a new series based on Douglas Adams’s “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” “trilogy in five volumes”. We already know the producer and writer of the new series!
The story of Arthur Dent traveling the galaxy after the Earth was destroyed giving way to a new intergalactic highway will get another screen adaptation! ABC Studios is working on a new series that will air on the Hulu channel.
We already know that the executive producer of the series will be Carlton Cuse (best known for his work on the series Lost ) and the screenwriter is Jason Fuchs (he was involved in the screenplay of the films Ice Age 4: Journey of the Continents and Wonder Women , and also plans to work on new film about Lobo).
Recall that the humorous series of books “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, commonly known as the “trilogy in five volumes”, consists of the following items:
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , 1979
- 1980 ‘s End Universe Restaurant
- Life, universe and all the rest of 1982
- Hi and thanks for the 1984 fish ,
- Basically harmless from 1992.
In addition, the ending of the story is And one more … Eoin Colfer, created in 2009, that is, on the 30th anniversary of the first part of the “trilogy”.
The first series based on the novel was made in 1981 thanks to BBC television. Arthur Dent was then played by Simon Jones, and his alien friend who saved Arthur from Earth was played by David Dixon.
In 2005, a full-length film directed by Garth Jennings was also released, in which Martin Freeman played the main character.