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Bill Bailey and Alan Rickman in Hitchhikers Guide

By James Wray Jan 7, 2005, 18:19 GMT

BBC Radio 1The voice of Marvin will be Alan Rickman and Bill Bailey will play the whale.Rickman needs no introduction but for those who have not heard of Bailey he is a popular UK comic, who's eclectic mix of music and comedy is well worth a look.Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out of work actor Together this dynamic pair begin their journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitch Hiker's Guide "A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have" and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers.Zaphod Beeblebrox - the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out to lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ball-point pens he has bought over the years. Further details on the movie in our database.You can read more about Bill Bailey on his official site and M.J. Simpson's on his site.

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US Release: 2005-04-29
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