ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Movie</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#000000"> <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="580" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="280" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="4" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'The Hitch Hiker's Guide<BR>to the Galaxy'<BR></B>(The Movie)<BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">by Garth Jennings<BR>and Karey Kirkpatrick<BR><FONT SIZE="2"><BR>based on the novel and first screenplay by Douglas Adams</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="300" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="THHGTTG Pictures/THHGTTGMovie.jpg" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="152" ALT="THHGTTG Movie"></TD></TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> When Arthur Dent, a six-foot-tall ape descendant, wakes up one morning he is rather alarmed to discover that his nice house is about to be demolished to make way for a new bypass. However, this not insignificant problem soon becomes the least of Arthur s problems after his friend Ford Prefect tells him three important facts: one  Ford is not from Guildford after all, but is instead from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse; two  that he works as a writer for a best-selling intergalactic reference book called  The Hitch Hiker s Guide to the Galaxy ; and three - the world is about to end& <BR><BR> Martin Freeman (<B>Arthur Dent</B>), Mos Def (<B>Ford Prefect</B>), Sam Rockwell (<B>Zaphod Beeblebrox</B>), Zooey Deschanel (<B>Tricia McMillan ["Trillian"]</B>), Bill Nighy (<B>Slartibartfast</B>), Warwick Davis (<B>Marvin the Paranoid Android</B>), Stephen Fry (<B>The Book [Voice]</B>), Bill Bailey (<B>The Whale [Voice]</B>), Mason Ball (<B>Vogon Minion</B>), Jane Belson (<B>Extra</B>), Jerome Blake (<B>Vogon Guard</B>), Anna Chancellor (<B>Questular Rontok</B>), Richard Coombs (<B>Vogon High Command</B>), Barry Dowden (<B>Stunt Builder</B>), Phillip Eason (<B>Vogon High Command</B>), Richard Griffiths (<B>Jeltz, Vogon Captain [Voice]</B>), Brian Herring (<B>Vogon Minion</B>), Mark Jefferis (<B>Vogon High Command</B>), Simon Jones (<B>Magrathean Announcer</B>), William Todd Jones (<B>Vogon Captain</B>), John Malkovich (<B>Humma Kavula</B>), Ian McNeice (<B>Vogon Kwaltz [Voice]</B>), Steve Pemberton (<B>Mr. Prosser</B>), Nigel Plaskitt (<B>Vogon High Command</B>), Alan Rickman (<B>Marvin the Paranoid Android [Voice]</B>), Katherine Smee (<B>Vogon</B>), James Thrift (<B>Extra</B>), Robert Tygner (<B>Vogon High Command</B>), Ben Uttley (<B>Vogon Guard</B>), Patrick Walker (<B>Vogon Guard</B>), Ray Donn (<B>Humma Worshiper</B>)*, Rich Johnston (<B>Congregation</B>)*, Polly Jane Adams (<B>TBC</B>), Jane Garnier (<B>TBA</B>)<BR>*(Uncredited) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Garth Jennings <BR>Produced by Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman, Nick Goldsmith and Jay Roach <BR>Co-produced by Todd Arnow and Caroline Hewitt <BR>Executive Producers Douglas Adams*, Derek Evans and Robbie Stamp</B> <BR>*(Posthumous credit) <BR><BR>Adapted from the B.B.C. Radio series <BR><BR><B>Release Date:</B> <FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <BR>6th May 2005 <BR><BR><B>Notes:</B> <BR>*Featuring Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Tricia "Trillian" McMillan and Marvin the Paranoid Android <BR><BR><BR> <IMG SRC="THHGTTG Pictures/MovieCast.jpg" WIDTH="290" HEIGHT="236" ALT="Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent and Zaphod Beeblebrox"> <IMG SRC="PICTURES/1x1 Pixel.gif" WIDTH="20" HEIGHT="1" BORDER="0"> <IMG SRC="THHGTTG Pictures/Marvin.jpg" WIDTH="177" HEIGHT="235" ALT="What the heck have they done to Marvin?!?"> <BR><BR><IMG SRC="THHGTTG Pictures/MovieTeaser.jpg" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300" ALT="Movie teaser"> <BR><BR><IMG SRC="THHGTTG Pictures/MoviePoster.jpg" WIDTH="337" HEIGHT="500" ALT="Movie poster"> <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>