A screenplay was begun by Adams & completed by Garth Jennings and Karey Kirkpatrick after Adams' death.

Cast
Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent Mos Def as Ford Prefect Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox Zooey Deschanel as Trillian Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast John Malkovich as Humma Kavula Anna Chancellor as Questular Rontok Jack Stanley and Dominique Jackson as Lunkwill and Fook Steve Pemberton as Prosser Albie Woodington as the barman Jason Schwartzman as Gag Halfrunt Simon Jones as "Ghostly Image" Mark Longhurst as "Bulldozer Driver" Su Elliott as "Pub Customer" Terry Bamber as "Technician" Kelly MacDonald as "Reporter" Helen Mirren as the voice of Deep Thought Bill Bailey as the voice of the whale Thomas Lennon as Eddie the Shipboard Computer Warwick Davis as the body of Marvin Alan Rickman as the voice of Marvin. Stephen Fry as the voice of The Guide Ian McNeice voices Kwaltz, a Vogon Richard Griffiths as the voice of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz Mark Gatiss - Vogon voice Reece Shearsmith - Vogon voice Steve Pemberton - Vogon voice

Production
Inside the Slashdot interview [http://slashdot.org/articles/05/04/26/1952248.shtml?tid=97&tid=133&tid=214], Robbie Stamp, one of the film's executive producers, noted a below all about the cast of the film: A hardest character to cast was "the voice of the Guide itself and in the end came back to somebody who was one of the people Douglas himself had wanted, namely Stephen Fry." "Douglas himself is on record as saying that as far as he was concerned the only character who had to be British, indeed English, was Arthur Dent." Stamp likewise commented in how else very much role a studio & a more film writer (otherwise Adams that is) wear the film: "I think that a lot of fans would be surprised to know just how much of a free hand we have been given in the making of this movie. I know how easy it is to see every decision to cut a scene as 'studio' pressure but it was always much more to do with pacing and rhythm in the film itself." "The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote....All the substantive new ideas in the movie...are brand new Douglas ideas written especially for the movie by him....Douglas was always up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie."

Soundtrack

A complete motion picture soundtrack was released as an iTunes Music Store exclusive on 12 April 2005, two weeks prior to a scheduled Video release. A iTunes Music Store as well has 2 farther exclusive sets of tracks related to the picture show: A Marvin Mixes come remixes of the recently version of Reasons to become Miserable, on text performed by Stephen Fry, as well as the fresh vocal & a recently subservient track for Marvin, too performed by Fry. Stephen Moore had recorded the vocals of two tracks inside 1981. The Guide Entries are new spoken "Hitchhiker's Guide" entries, completely see by Fry, using accompanying music by Joby Talbot, who wrote a film score.

A soundtrack Video was freed in 26 April 2005, by Hollywood Records, a section of The Walt Disney Company. A Video hwhen a equivalent 33 tracks as a last iTunes Music Store release. A enclosed brochure includes acknowledgements from either Joby Talbot & notes on the creation of the song & so Long and Thanks for All the Fish, written by Garth Jennings.

Plot

A pic follows a general plot of last versions of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' though, as with previous incarnations, there have been changes for this version. Virtually all luminary come a sections on the planets Viltvodle VI & Vogsphere. As well a romance between Arthur & Trillian is emphasized & additional fully developed in that motion picture than former renditions.

Waking to the healthy of dozer encroaching upon his home, Arthur Dent tries to prevent a destruction of his front yard by stack away the path of the dozer. His tries come interrupted by his friend Ford Prefect, who convinces Arthur to accompany him to the local public house. On this text Ford reveals that he is actually an alien (& non from either Guildford) and as the favour is planning to save Arthur from either certain dying after a Globe is demolished to produce way for a hyperspace bypass in the next couple minutes. Fallowing hitchhiking aboard one of a orbiting Vogon ships, a duo come captured per Vogons, forced to listen to the Vogon Captain's poetry (a third worst in the universe), and so discarded an air lock, in which (against completely probability) it is rescued per Heart of Gold, a starship stolen by Astronomical President Zaphod Beeblebrox, and accompanied by Tricia McMillan, now calling herself Trillian (whom Arthur it used to be that met at the person) & Marvin the Paranoid Android.

These are at this point that a plot begins to vary from either last versions of the story. In that version, Zaphod is already caring of the Go after the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, and desiring a Wonder for himself he stole the Heart of Gold sustaining a intent of utilizing it to visit a planet Magrathea. These are a Magrathean information archive cube that reveals a story of Deep Thought, but not a identity of the computer built to discover the "Ultimate Question." Besides therewithin version, a Vogons remain in pursuit of Zaphod & a Heart of Gold throughout, at a behest of the Astronomical Vice-President world health organization wishes to "rescue" him from either his abductor (Zaphod abducted himself whilst he stole a Heart of Gold).

A Improbability Cause will require a ship to Viltvodle VI, front yard of the Jatravartids and Humma Kavula, who was Zaphod's opponent in the election for President of the Galaxy. Kavula has a little red cube that contains the co-ordinate to Magrathea, & offers it to Zaphod around exchange for a gun (the Point-of-view gun) that can be uncovered touching Deep Thought. Kavulthe takes a "hostage" sequentially to assure that Zaphod might complete a quest, & removes Zaphod's 2nd head.

When you took their departure from either Viltvodle VI, Trillian is captured per Vogons & brought to their homeworld, Vogsphere. My heroes return a Vogon homeworld & try to rescue Trillian. Upon stepping off their ship it briefly encounter subterraneous animal that attack humans world health organization exhibit original thought, which it handle to evade when it email an populated area. A excessive bureaucracy associated with numbers of organisation is parodied whilst it is confronted per total of red tape that they must forge across to rescue Trillian. When Trillian is filtered, she learns of the destruction of the Globe, which Arthur got non told her astir (fallowing he got been threatened on the subject by Zaphod). She too learns that Zaphod was a a single world health organization absent-inattentively autographed a demolition the correct sequence for Globe (by signing "Love & Kisses, Zaphod"). Arthur, Zaphod, & Ford handle to fill out a appropriate Presidential Prisoner Release forms to stand Trillian freed upright prior to she is fed to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal and the crew escapes Vogsphere. Even when a Vogons come astir to give pursuit, a claxon sounds, & it delay the chase as it require an hour polish off for dejeuner.

A Heart of Gold heads for Magrathea, in which a company is separated - Zaphod, Trillian, & Ford meet Deep Thought, when Arthur meets Slartibartfast, and learns of Globe's origin. When touring the Magrathean Planet Factory Floor, Arthur is introduced to the Globe Mark II, a backup copy. He is one of these days led to his home inside England, at present restored.

Meanwhile, below Deep Thought, Zaphod, Trillian, & Ford locate a Point-of-learn from gun, a object sought by Humma Kavula. Based on data from a Answer, it was built by Deep Thought for the council of angry woman of the house world health organization were disgusted ending arguments by complaining to married man that "you just don't get it, do you?" Whilst fired, a Point-of-watch gun induces a target to own household budget a point of view of the wielder. Trillian utilizes it to produce Zaphod realize her conflicting feelings just about their relationship.

Back at Arthur's home, Arthur is reunited by having Ford, Zaphod & Trillian, world health organization come occupy enjoying the shower meal provided per mice. A meal even so has been laced by having sedative drug, & consequently Arthur finds his iii companions falling sound asleep. These are a trap to enable a mice to restrain Arthur & extract his brain (existence a virtually all recent component left from either a Globe fallowing its demolition, & so required to complete the Globe's programme). Faced using his dying, Arthur eventually expresses his love for Trillian. Prior to the mice handle a extraction, Arthur breaks loose from either his restraints, & squishes a mice by having a teapot.

A heroes leave a recreation of Arthur's home, lone to exist as confronted by the heavy total of Vogons. When Zaphod tries to work Arthur's "spaceship" (which is as the matter of fact merely a caravan), Arthur and Trillian try to retrieve a dropped Point-of-review gun, however come forced to apply a caravan when handle from either a hail of fire a Vogons direct at the children. Marvin attend catch higher by having the rest, remarking that Vogons come a worst marksmen in the universe, however he is hit in the back of the head by a Vogon blast & collapses.

Even as it seems that it is doomed, Marvin reactivates & picks higher a nearby Point-of-review gun. He fires, hitting 100% of the Vogons & it is contaminated to his perspective in life; it entirely instantly be improbably depressed & collapse.

When a depressed Vogons come taken away & a final touches come applied to Globe Mark II, Slartibartfast asks Arthur in case there exists anything that a newly Globe can wash forgoing & Arthur replies, "Yeah, me." A picture show finishes using Arthur & his companions allowing a fresh "rebooted" Globe & reboarding a Heart of Gold, by using a meant destination of Milliways, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Differences
A story is largely monovular to a earliest versions until the characters arrive on the Heart of Gold, the virtually all notable changes existence the introduction of Trillian earliest, & a motivation for Ford rescuing Arthur existence given.

Zaphod's motivation for locating Magrathea is changed somewhat - he already knows of a Ultimate Guide, & tries the computer that Deep Thought designed for the Ultimate Wonder. Still, his underlying motivation, to be rich & celebrated (despite a fact that he already is) remains a equivalent.

A sub-plot involving Humma Kavula is newly (a Jatravartids were antecedently lone mentioned), a Heart of Gold originally running directly to Magrathea. In a former versions a Heart of Gold & Zaphod Beeblebrox come originally pursued per Galactic Police, non a Vogons, although a Vogons afterwards run catch higher sustaining the Heart of Gold, sequentially to stamp out Arthur & Trillian.

A character of Vice-President Questular, a belief that a president has been "kidnapped", & a capture & deliverance of Trillian come newly for the film.

A climax of the action is largely fresh. Around sooner versions a Galactic Police confronted a characters in Magrathea - in a pic a Vogons look at the characters in the Globe Mark II, when these are however existence worked on. A mechanism for treating sustaining a children (a Point of Watch gun) is freshly in a motion picture, however its application (Marvin exposing the Vogons to his point of look at, hence stimulating the children to collapse) is similar to the book version, in which Marvin flushed the Galactic Police by networking by having its computer stimulating it to get depressed, commit suicide, & fold the Policemen's life trend lines rules. At the super prevent of a film, the 2nd Globe is rolled out, & Arthur Dent chooses to remain a hitch-host. Nothing analagous happens inside last versions - although a Globe does re-pop up inside So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - it turns out, inside Mostly Harmless to be for wholly different reasons.

A romanticistic triangle between Trillian, Zaphod & Arthur is hinted at in the last versions, however never went anywhere. This plot thread was other developed in the flick. In a opening scenes, Arthur explains his encounter to Trillian at a person to Ford, introducing the character of Trillian earliest. Trillian is portrayed when Western in a flick, when by owning the television series. In the radio series & the books she has a British accent.

Them mice, Frankie & Benjy, were flushed by Arthur Dent, who hit the babies by owning the bowl. So a mice never experienced a risk to report to the galaxy their version of the Ultimate Wonder: "How many roads must a man walk down?"

Late, i personally buy that Zaphod is keeping news of Globe's destruction from either Trillian, & Trillian yet dumps Zaphod when she discovers he is responsible inadvertently signing papers authorizing the destruction of the Globe, thinking that a fan was request for an autograph. This is similar to the way the Frogstar Captive Relations Officer tricked him into signing a statement saying that he was put in the Total Perspective Vortex of his own yours free! might in the radio series. Withwithin the few earliest versions he got been taking part in a conspiracy to kill Globe.

Although occasionally of a changes attracted criticism from either either fans in various Internet message boards, the makers of the film were fast to point out that all the changes originated from Adams himself. Despite his getting died trey years prior to the film was produced, andy skinner was however given a screenwriting & an executive producer credit on the moving-picture show.

Nods to BBC productions
the original Marvwithwithin prop from either a 1981 TV versiin of the story may be seen in a single scene, in a queue on Vogsphere, albeit by having orangish eyes, instead of the original red. A theme tune for the BBC radio & TV series, "Journey of the Sorcerer", composed by Bernie Leadon and originally recorded by The Eagles, is used. the music is heard within the film in a freshly arrangement by Joby Talbot. "What A Wonderful World", sung by Louis Armstrong, wwhen used as background music for the film's teaser trailer. This song was as well utilized at a guide of a number 1 radio series & at the guide of the BBC TV series, each assault prehistoric Globe. Simon Jones, world health organization played Arthur Dent in the radio & TV series, makes the brief cameo appearance. He is the "Ghostly Image" that appears once a Heart of Gold approaches Magrathea, & warns a babies that the planet is presently non open for business. While it prove my point approaching a planet, he reappears & courteously informs the babies that deuce thermonuclear missiles are headed towards a ship, & their (presumptively impendent) deaths "may be recorded for training purposes."

Characters
Arthur Dent, an "ordinary Earthman," from either Engl&, world health organization winds higher travelling the galaxy around his pajamas & dressing gown, and carrying a towel. Ford Prefect, a researcher for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". He saves Arthur from either a destruction of Globe because Arthur got kept his life years earliest. Tricia McMillan, who shortens her title to "Trillian" (because "It sounds spacy"). She ran out of Globe by using Zaphod Beeblebrox good prior to virtually all of a cases in the picture, however on top the course of the moving picture, she comes to dislike him. Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of a Galaxy, who has stolen the Heart of Gold to pursue his own selfish schemes. Slartibartfast, a coastline designer world health organization reveals the very history of Globe to Arthur Dent. Humma Kavula, a religious leader on the planet Viltvodle VI, & Zaphod's vanquished opponent in the recent Presidential election. This character wwhen devised by Adams as a villainside for even more, an extra subplot of the pic, non present in last incarnations of the story. Marvin, the Paranoid Android, section of the devices on the Heart of Gold. Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, leader of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.

Box Office earnings

The motion picture mass produced $21,103,203 in the USA in its opening weekend, opening in foremost place.

The motion-picture show remained in the The states pack professional top x for its number one 4 weeks of release.

The flick's aggregate pack professional gross was $98,484,416 worldwide (as of early September 2005).

Home video releases
A flick was freed in DVD (Regiin Two, Crony) in the UK on Five September 2005. Two the standard double disc edition & the UK-exclusive "Gift Set" edition were freed on this date. A standard double disc edition features: Making Of Hitchhikers Conclusion To The Galaxy Extra Resolution Entry Deleted Scenes Really Deleted Scenes (scenes that were never intended to become in the motion picture) Sing A Long Audio Commentaries Placed Top Games Marvins Hangman ''Don't Crash'' (UK scoop "making of" infotainment) A "Gift Set" edition includes the copy of the novel using the "movie tie-in" handle, & collectable prints from either the film, packaged around a reproduction of the film's version of the ''Hitchhiker's Cure prop.

Individual disc widescreen & good-screen editions (Area One, NTSC) were freed in the USA and Canada on 13 September 2005. It have a different handle, however contain a equivalent favorite features (except a Don't Crash'' documentary film) when a UK version.

Individual disc releases in the UMD format for the PlayStation Portable were also freed on the several dates inside these trio countries. The VHS release has non been announced.

Trivia

In a period of the Heart Of Gold's final improbableness transformation, a go form a ship will require is the face of Douglas Adams. Adams makes ii more "appearances" - a planet in a shape of his head might briefly become seen in the period of the Magrathean Planet Factory Tour sequence, & the entrance to the Temple of the Dandy Green Arkleseizure in Viltvodle VI is in the shape of his nose. Deep Thought has the logotype for Apple Computer just to the right & above its electronic eye (which may be seen around closeups whilst Ford, Trillian & Zaphod come speaking to the computer). Ford's last name is never mentioned within dialogue in a film, though the character is employed when "Ford Prefect" whenever foremost introduced in the screenplay & whilst used in the credits. Likewise, Ford is known as Ix by Zaphod when it meet on the Heart of Gold, which is Ford's previous nickname, & is the number one instance in any format that this happens. In a flashback scene once Arthur saves Ford from either existence hit by the car, the car was an actual Ford Prefect. A animations of the book were processed per UK-based project studio [http://www.shynola.com/main.htm Shynola]