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.
7.0/10 舞台剧改编电影，我的观感和看了舞台剧没太大差别。只是画面更精致，机位更多样，但这并不意味着沉浸，第四堵墙依旧存在。好几处歌舞突兀得好笑。并且，为什么不改编下文本，与时俱进好吗。
文本本身吧放在现在看就挺无聊的。改编做的音乐歌舞部分是OK，但选角挺不行的，男女主表演都不太行，配角还都比较出彩。
尽管剧情老土，我对西区故事观感还不错因为它舞蹈的比例还挺高……其实刨去男女主的话算好看，前半部有喜闻乐见的大场面歌舞，配角们的表演也确实不错…啊？今年颁奖季领跑的女配Ariana DeBose居然是sy第六季的一轮游惹…第八季的jesse也算有多句台词和单人镜头，gaby和无比大两个冠军镶边群演…（可能因为jet的群演戏份确实比sharks多）但谁叫男女主是男女主，女主好歹能唱，男主啥啥都不行，还因为丑闻以及和女主的体型差而贡献了炼铜既视感，最后的生离死别，对不起无情笑场。
哭了四次（？ 死皮真的牛 前两幕的调度和质感我每首歌都在快站起来鼓掌的程度（虽然ansel唱成这样很下头哈也不知道芭蕾舞是不是女朋友补课的腿没有专业的打的直 但是太爽了 基本上都是六十年代末的厂拍歌舞片的荧幕语言和打光方式 所有让我出戏的都是过于现代的特效加强和剪辑方式 make 60s great again!!!!! 桑爷credit出来全场鼓掌尖叫 wish you could have seen this day 😭
哪儿都好，就是故事不行，有这主创团队，用心原创个剧本绝对会成为传世经典
妈呀写完短评更气了想打1星呵呵哒
音乐非常一般。大概是我看过音乐剧里音乐最平的一部。看完完全记不住任何旋律。剧情而言，这样古典色彩的桥段放在现代框架背景下真的格格不入。好几次男女主深情对唱我都觉得好尴尬…主角也是完全不出彩。比较喜欢开头那一段边跳舞边搞破坏，既优雅又街头的感觉。
种族，性别，战争……女性角色全部化身情感的使者，告诉我们唯有爱能化解一切。六十年后再次问鼎奥斯卡的硬实力已经具备，但奥斯卡“守旧”的可能性并不大。
妈呀写完短评更气了想打1星呵呵哒
前半段舞蹈亮眼，後半段張力十足，很多細節很戳人，結尾觀眾大呼，what a great movie!
现代版罗朱 好过时的文本 舞蹈编排得挺流畅的 男女主演技都呆若木鸡
无论主角还是配角都没有老版中的形象那么生动，甚至是根本体会不到情绪，从另一方面来说斯皮尔伯格没有给动作的反应镜头或者没有向演员讲解情绪的重要性。
老斯是自己过自己的日子与世无争了，除了技法高光，其他的聊胜于无。
无论主角还是配角都没有老版中的形象那么生动，甚至是根本体会不到情绪，从另一方面来说斯皮尔伯格没有给动作的反应镜头或者没有向演员讲解情绪的重要性。
【2.0】对没看过旧版电影或是喜欢传统歌舞片的观众来说，这或许还是一部青春洋溢的餐后甜品式电影，然而不巧的是我对旧版和歌舞片都谈不上有多大的热爱，何况本片的演出节奏和调度相较于旧版都显然退步，观影实在很难说是愉快的。
Ariana DeBose的阿妮塔依然全片最耀眼，几场群舞的调度和编排也都相当漂亮。新老两版最大的变化其实就是将《Somewhere》这首重要的歌交给了老版阿妮塔，让这首歌多了一层悲剧的轮回之感。但无奈Ansel Elgort实在太过于灾难，一直到他戏份大幅减少的最后半小时才终于能够入戏，观感全都毁于他……
看到一半的時候，原本打算寫的是這版本 has excellent choreography and good cinematography, but that’s all it added, 而這樣的 remake 有何意義呢？但一路看下去，也還是受感動。（非常喜歡警局一幕。）然後我看了一個frame-by-frame 的原版及新版 America 對比，醒覺當舊版某程度上仍然是局限於舞台的時候，新版是真正的電影。juvenile delinquency及upbringing也處理得比原版更好（在我印象中）。 Ariana DeBose 非常出彩。看著Rita Moreno跟她兩個跨越六十年的 Anita同框也是另外一種感受。Bernstein 的音樂真的是永垂不朽。
★★★☆ 我對1961年的經典版其實就沒有那麼喜歡，《羅密歐與朱麗葉》的故事被改得很沒意思，而且拍得只見故事不見人，但是我喜歡這一版，讓我看到了些許人。你永遠可以相信Steven Spielberg的調度能力，將整個故事更加電影化，不僅是musical而且是cinema，在保留有黃金時代歌舞片味道之餘，又注入了活力，更加自由，更加輕盈，當然男女主角的選角和表現令人難以滿意，更可惜的是改編還是保守了些，沒能有更加當代的表達，不過即便有著各種不盡如人意之處，卻也是《愛樂之城》之後我最喜歡的一部歌舞片了。
整体的的带入感比61年的版本好了很多，歌舞和剧情结合的也合理了很多，大部分的音乐做到了有源。不得不说斯皮尔伯格还是目前这个世界上最会拍电影的导演，很多段落的设计都有奇观的感觉，让这个老套的故事有了新的活力！
可能实在太需要浪漫主义毒药了吧……连剧情狗血也不是很在乎
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