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.
华美、糜烂与黑暗，风格化的叙事佐以复古音乐不要太迷人。
不敢相信是EW的作品，也许他接了个美恐剧场版的活。
好看 女主颜值高 女主拥抱60年代的同是到轮渡呢打拼的女孩，虽然一切已来不及。会帮助女主的是女人和黑人。
Solid storyline and acting. Such a quality thriller.
艾丽在伦敦/午夜伦敦 的恐男歌舞片 虽然略显廉价 但我还是觉得很不错！安雅这种风格也很好看
这反倒是好一阵子内看到的最好的犯罪惊悚片了。最后披露的真相倒是并不新鲜，甚至提前就能预感到，但是如今摄影、CG技术大大丰富了镜头语言的表现形式。各种不可能的长镜头成为可能，对镜子的精妙利用毫不输《黑天鹅》。
畅快淋漓的悬疑电影，一人穿梭在两个世界之间的视觉设计非常惊艳，关于角色身份设计的情节反转也做到了意料之外情理之中，有太多细节值得铺开叙述，我只能说已经有很长一段时间没看到如此精彩绝伦的悬疑电影。
Edgar Wright的嶄新嘗試口碑毀譽參半，劇情上較遭人詬病例如反轉後劇情無力承接命題，但囊括一眾很難會難看的元素（復古、迷影、霓虹）結合對鏡像的運用，Edgar Wright奉獻一次視覺和聽覺的盛宴。
视听配乐构图绝佳，就是节奏太快了，慢一点气氛会更强烈些。安雅太美了，眼睛完全离不开她～
实际上视听很赞。但是，女主的小男友丑到难以下咽，为啥选两个美极的女主，男的选角却如此随意。黑人完全没问题，但一定要选个嘴如此凸，牙如此大的嘛，万圣节Kiss那里，一裂开牙那我以为是恐怖剧的特效来着。后半段，太神经到以为是心理剧，却原来是神神叨叨的东西，太毁了。现实中如果有精神病家族史的人看到幻觉，请向专业医护人士求助，你就是病发不是看到鬼。
以恐怖悬疑片的形式，来包装一个怀旧片，满片的六十年代歌曲，像极一个大MV。而贯穿全剧的各种元素，就是一部可笑的大杂烩，更是令人生厌。片中有一句台词还不错：旧时代伦敦的味道，已经渗透到每一堵墙壁之中。确实。
一群死男人们活该
想给两星，太烦泥菩萨渡人了，虽然知道生活受挫的女主会更加想要帮助“她”，以获得勇气力量巴拉巴拉巴拉，但就是希望泥菩萨渡人之前先让现实之火将自己烧制成型，否则只能一起沉底了。（带对象去看的那条热评有亿点点好笑
超喜欢超好看！太对我味口了！画面，音乐，美术设计太舒服了，摄影和调度都很妙！演员都好美好可爱啊！情节还有反转，中途有问号，但是转到最后是我喜欢的！爱了爱了！
前半段很好，风格够足，中间部分全垮了，还好反转救场
恐男电影，剧本其实也就是九号秘事水平，视听语言是真不错。不过说实话，这部也太不埃德加赖特了，完全没了拍喜剧时候那些独特的视觉风格，好莱坞的制片模式对赖特来说是毒药啊...
此片能找出一堆对照，六七十年代用cult反哺黑色电影那些，冷血惊魂、魔女嘉莉，用金敏式转场，搞了个复古大拼盘，念旧的赖特。新东西是真的新（玻璃阶梯），套路也是真套路，主要是抻得太长了。有一个点：我对“男人们”的情绪仅仅是厌恶和反感，但要上升到恐惧感觉需要更多铺垫才行（可能是性别局限？），鬼影并未起到世界尽头外星人的作用，而这是中段唯一的逻辑点，厌男≠见到鬼影就跑。万圣节舞会这个设定（典型的魔女嘉莉场景）太顺拐了。总之鬼影恐惧点，对我来说不成立，也没意思，不过视觉效果挺不错的。对于个人精神错乱题材，A24在不断做新，赖特这种影迷型导演在做旧，是一种有趣的现象
以恐怖题材电影成名的导演拍了一部小妞电影，上一次我看到还是《见鬼》导演之一彭顺拍的《宅女侦探桂香》。我不知道这文本是埃德加赖特主导还是另一位编剧主导，但我相信如果把两位女主角的结局换一下叙述顺序，至少还可以再加一星。丁正勋的摄影手法和欧美电影工业体系还是融合得来的，也很大程度上保证了影片的观赏性，不过前提是不要和他和朴赞郁合作的《老男孩》《亲切的金子》《斯托克》比较
#venezia78 非竞赛展映。Edgar Wright真是一个excellent storyteller，可以把任何故事装在精美的潘多拉盒子里，故事层层推进，高潮时所有evil喷涌而出，打得观众七零八落。前面有一些熟悉的电影的影子，鉴于剧本是他本人写的，我把这看做致敬，因为Edgar绝不是一个缺乏想象力的艺术家。影片直到2/3处Thomasin McKenzie饰演的女主都不讨我喜，尖叫得有点生硬，但鉴于Edgar是个纯直男，在大决战干净利索完美处理并且明确点题后不得不接受他就是要这么简单粗暴直接了当的释放。有时我们对一个导演宽容，除了因为对他的喜爱之外，还有对他稳健自信的倾佩。女性题材以这样一种形式表达，虽不够思想深刻，但足够令人印象深刻。男人们在侵犯女性时，应该思考一下，到底谁之错。
华美、糜烂与黑暗，风格化的叙事佐以复古音乐不要太迷人。
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