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.
我太喜欢了 我真的好羡慕导演能写出这样的对话内容 可能就是情色和色情的区别 我想到了火口的两人 这没有什么可耻的。最后那一幕很妙 或许只有女主自己才能取悦自己。“我很高兴你来了”
重构庞杂的信息和情感，在灾难带给新发地的聚会
I'm an islander. 纽芬兰岛Gander小镇。喜欢女机长的故事，原型是 Beverley Bass, the first woman captain for American Airlines. "And the one thing I loved more than anything was used as the bomb" 真是听着很让人心痛。
弥补去年被退票的现场，挑在911二十周年上线也很合时宜，主题嘛，来自陌生人的最大善意
好真诚的话剧电影，男女主的化学反应很妙，对白和互动让人数度落泪… 女性意识觉醒之后的自信和自爱真的会发光~ Leo这样的Public Service上哪儿领？
原来还有这样一段历史。演员都好出色，音乐都很好听。哎还是希望love & peace吧
本以为就是个探讨两性话题的话痨片，结尾突如其来的大尺度属实惊到了
没有宏大华美的布景，演员们都要分饰几角，所以舞台场景与角色转换做得相当精巧娴熟。基督徒、犹太教徒和牧斯林同时用各自旋律祈祷和声那段太动听了，还有回程时乘客过安检的慢镜头表演也是神来之笔。最后看到演员与真实人物的合影也非常感动
这部电影证明了我自己是一个卓越的女性。我的宝贝儿会是那个他吗？
是谁在刷CFA？是我。是谁在哭泣？是我。是谁在跟着唱？是我。是谁在跺脚？是我。啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊
you sound like a sex saint. are you real?hahaha
发现自己的美，享受愉悦感，承认高潮，从来不是什么羞耻的事情。她站在镜子前仔细的欣赏自己，我泪流满面
真的很工整！就算是女性性幻想又咋的啦？我们放开爽了就好了啊！（话说这样优质的鸭哪里找？）
工整的“踩点式”剧本，匠气重，让我想起《婚姻故事》的写法。男主从人设到表演都很端着。 影片整体中规中矩，故事发展全在人意料之中，但女演员结尾处获得高潮后发自内心的愉悦的笑容，及对着镜子与自己坦诚相见的样子，仍然令人动容。我们需要更多关注女性的电影。 （在一场性交易中，女性作为付费的一方，作为逻辑上的剥削者，却仍然下意识将自己放于被凝视的位置，担心自己会不会太老、身体会不会太丑。这是一个不比女性欲望轻松的女性困境。）
温柔。我：“也有点想尝试一下！”老婆：“我想这样的男性工作者是不存在的。”
▫️影片后半段两人的冲突，乍看觉得莫名其妙接受不了，细想其实也再自然不过，无法把情欲和亲密感情剥离，是女主循规蹈矩人生的一部分，对于这次“一生中唯一的冒险”也自然而然的想在这条轨道上运行。而“相互救赎”非要让男主也来个转变就实属鸡汤了。
▫️接纳自己的身体和欲望，停止对自己的刻薄，是每个人都应该摸索学习的，但是更多时候我们并不一定有这个机会。
这种灾难背后，芸芸众生所呈现的善意和温暖，怎能让人不喜欢。
一輩子有好多束縛，掙脫桎梏真的很難。看完覺得很感動，Emma和這個男生的化學反應出奇的不錯。｜和K，她說看完她甚至覺得性工作者真的應該合法化。我說，不，這只是電影，所以很理想很美好。真實的大環境下，合法化只會進一步加深對女性的剝削。
几个人，一个舞台，几把椅子，表演出了地球村的感觉，回到那个充满关怀和温暖的年代，美中不足是没有亚裔的演员，少了点什么
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
