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An interview with the producer and director of the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film.

Jim: When you were first approached to do the movie, what was your reaction?

Garth: “‘What an awful idea.’ We thought that it would be the typical, Hollywood, ruin-everything thing and we actually told our agent not to send us the script. Frank, being a very good agent, sent it anyway. So it sat on our desk for approximately two weeks and we kept just looking at it, thinking, ‘Oh, they’ll have ruined it. We’re not going anywhere near it.’ We had actually started making our own film and had already begun the casting process. Then one day Nick said, ‘Look, you should read this. I’ve just read it.’ He was very quiet about it, he said, ‘Just have a read, see what you think.’