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.
曾经也有一份如电影般的五年恋情，也有不少细节段落特别有代入共鸣，但我依然认为从电影角度来说极其俗套普通。
皮克斯总能在最生活最平凡的地方，讲出最动人的故事。人生虽然会不如意的事十之八九，但是感受生活的每一天本身就可以是生活的目标。
既然“爱在”系列没有第四部，那么，我愿称这部电影为《爱在电车末班后》！
坂元裕二您继续勤奋耕耘吧，太喜欢这种碎碎念、热爱并沉浸于生活细节中的编剧了。日本要是有豆瓣，他肯定是重度依赖者，每天从豆友的广播中，不知窥探到多少温情的生活。
人生不可以只有一件美好事物。就譬如说爱情，如果一个人的生命中，爱情成为了唯一的美好。那么人是会痛苦的，因为能让你精神升华愉悦的事物太少了，爱情担负得太多了，你的大脑太一无所有了。
我和她，也是从大学，到工作，到磕磕绊绊，太多的相似，太多的共鸣，唯一不同的是，我们结婚，我们会一直在一起。超级超级共鸣的爱情电影。从未有一部爱情电影离自己如此之近。我想，我们很幸运，我想，要更加珍惜啊……
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小朋友看的很高兴，我也很喜欢！皮克斯真是强，又一次照顾到了所有观众群，甚至连最挑剔的爵士乐迷群体对这片的喜好也是五五开哈哈哈。
-我准备和它聊聊，但已经晚了
忙起来还是会吵架啊
恋爱和结婚两者对感情纯度要求差距真的太大了。原来没赶上终电可以做这么多事情，村花终于演上甜甜的恋爱了，另宝石之国，oor，黄金神威，蘑菇帝国，所以什么时候有人能陪我一起去看oor。如果smap没解散的话就不会分手吧，就很马鹿阿，用如果开头的句子都是假的。恋爱保鲜期耗尽了我们结婚吧，我还爱你，我只是不喜欢你了。6年后的奇迹是我和你一起出现在了谷歌地图参照物照片上，谢谢，再见。
是我被现实压弯了头颅吧，完全感觉不到导演想表达的，只觉得有点矫情😂
生活当然是不在别处的 但是假如22的trial life在非洲贫民窟 ta还是会留恋人生吗？
很多细节很戳人，“我的人生目标，就是和你维持现状”，听起来非常简单，但花束的保鲜期短暂。豆友们一朝成为社畜，再多的书影音共同爱好也抵挡不了996和琐碎的柴米油盐。可是，遇到了这么合拍的人，怎么可能舍得分开呢？
-她会不会只觉得我们俩聊得来
曾经我们步调一致，喜好一致，用影票当书签的习惯一致。后来我们追求不同，悲伤不同，出门时穿的鞋也不同。送了你颈挂耳机，我们却变成缠绕难解的耳机线。不满的司机尚可将货车开进大海，不爱的情侣要如何按下自助信号灯自救。停在卓拉领地的塞尔达，更新到十三卷的漫画，都无法延长恋爱花束般的限期。
-我今天认识了一个和我有一样想法的人
年龄大了，不再因剧中的人流泪而感动。原本不错地生活质感，因设计了太多巧合而割裂，体现在两人初遇时聊的话题，参加葬礼时交叉剪辑两人各自吐槽的话语，以及餐厅分手时正好乱入的学生情侣。这种设计并无不妥，但无法将影片整体思想拔高。最终也可见，影片没有抛出更多新的思考，只是讲了一堆再平常不过的大学情侣的破事。
就怕一个人没变，一个人已经变了
比較電視劇，可要做到如此高共鳴度不容易。感情變化的每個階段和衝突，不同階段的情節事件選擇（契合部分做的較誇張），很多很小的瞬間和反應，坂元的刀子一如既往的精準。/對比國產影視作品兩個問題，一是不關注戀愛雙方的精神交流（可能也看不上文藝青年），聊天內容幾乎不會涉及文學電影和藝術（很偶爾聊起來也不說人話）；二是不關注兩人自身在一段關係中的變化和矛盾，要不就是拉別人進來製造矛盾（如第三者、父母），要不就是千篇一律沒有細節變化的單一矛盾，且基本都關於物質（此片的二人矛盾也有涉及物質但反映的是價值觀的差別）/ ps，一切因押井守而起，沒時間去看《牯嶺街》時開始走下坡了，在戲院看《希望的另一面》兩人已徹底貌合神離了，阿基考里斯馬基翻了個白眼問：怪我嘍？楊德昌說：怪我⋯）
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