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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. They totally screwed up the book when making the film.
Douglas Adams must be spinning in his urn. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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You are either joking or ignorant.

Douglas Adams wrote the script before he died and one of the few things he wished for before he died was the film got made as he tried numorous times with no success to sell the script - ironically it was probably his death which was the tipping point for it being picked up.

He also wrote the books, radio show and TV show and was clearly a big fan in adapting and changing his work for the media it is shown in.

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Nevertheless. the story was changed after his time to turn it into a love story.
The people who made the final film forgot it was meant to be a comedy.

Just a side point, I heard the radio program when it first came out and also read the books when they came out.
The BBC TV version was not just similar to the radio program - it was identical, word for word.

The differences between the books and the radio program (second season) are obvious. However, they are a different story.
The film is meant to be the SAME story - which it clearly is not.