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.
看开头10分钟就知道要看一场无聊的电影了。不过在电影院还是好多次笑出声。
印尼拍出来的极具特色的metoo电影，对社会上贫富差距、宗教压抑和父权制度的批判。故事里面不少逻辑的欠缺很难忽视，让这个结局无法显得那么有力。
桑德拉和塔图姆木有火花，皮特是不是片酬太贵？丹尼尔演坏人不错。
这个狗剧情比琼瑶剧还精彩，前面一个半小时流水账，后面五分钟最精彩。整部电影台词已经cliche到我都能预测男女主下一秒要说什么。一分给依旧绝美的背景音乐，另一分给我听三部都不腻的英音。（并且Hardin好像又多了几个纹身，第四部建议可以纹个满背了
涉及到校园关系 主人公醉酒自拍而取消奖学金资格
感觉比第二部拍得还是要好一些 画面和剧情衔接也都行吧 男女主好不容易不吵了开始学会爱学会相互包容 结果上一辈的人开始狗血了 最后玩身世梗 佩服佩服 看第四部怎么圆了
好无聊…15分钟快进看完，感觉都浪费时间。
竟然还有tbc。。。而且我竟然还想看😅结尾那块配乐梦回vd就是说🤧
女性权益加现实主义，瑕不掩瑜，印尼在向正确的方向迈进。期待导演下一部。
Well can't say much.
又是个全明星垃圾，钱宁你就跟狗子混混不挺好
虽然剧情很傻逼 但是Hardin哭起来像个小狗狗呜呜呜 谁能不喜欢
嗯...一口气把俊男靓女谈三部恋爱看完了 现在咱就是说 对恋爱有点ptsd（男女主都有病 不敢相信还to be continued...god you must be kidding...）
能看的也就只有男女主的颜值了，剧情从第二部就开始跑偏了
虽然有想过男主的爸不是校长， 但是以他妈结婚前夜被儿子“撞到正”，真是太狗血了啊！
我还挺喜欢 结尾那边讲到哪来着 生父为他人 结合前面剧情我居然觉得还蛮合理的…
只能说还行吧，看题材是非常新颖的，看内容十分失望，就这么说吧，期望有多高失望有多大。
男主的腚应该是本片的亮点，别的部分真的一般般
与广大的豆瓣网友一样：这尼玛还有3？但我还是看了😂。更过分的竟然还有4!!!
这要是欧美拍的，画面一定更大胆，这要是攀龙附凤的话，还有点安东尼奥尼放大的意思，前面还非常好，女大学生剥茧抽丝从细节中找到真相，然后弱者挑战强权的情绪悬疑很到位，最后几分钟就没意思了，变成了metoo现场，个人非常讨厌metoo的活动，那不是权益保护，而是大型的厌男和厌性宣传活动，摸了下屁股，言语透露出想约炮，摸了下大腿蹭了下胸都控告什么性侵，太他么矫情了，生活在这个世界上，只要你长得正常且青春水嫩，你就要接受男人都想上你的事实，老天创造男人就这么创造的，你把男人对性的渴望和表达都看成罪恶，那是你的问题，渴望男性都变成没有任何性暗示的社会动物，不可能的
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