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.
想看恐龙崛起团结一致对抗人类，不想看什么和平共存的虚假温情戏码……最后几个人是趁两只恐龙打架之际逃走的也太好笑了😂
"I always come back."
【B–】平心而论，如果真从长线收官的角度出发，这片子甚至要好过《复联4》，至少也是在用剧作逻辑牵引新老两组主角的行为动机，各方面平衡的都挺好。更难得的是融梗能力一级棒，程序员大胖子是对老版1反派的复刻，克莱尔掉落雨林致敬老版3的开头，欧文戴故障耳机都能场外联线星爵，有闲笔但无废笔。最喜欢格兰特和欧文同时说“站着别动”然后一脸无奈，没受过老版本熏陶的中国观众可能真的get不到。
飞行员很酷，除此之外人类的部分能少犯点傻吗……关键时刻不还得靠霸王龙
第一次看恐龙片。前面好无聊坐立不安，中段追赶情节还挺刺激，但一直到后面就有点麻了。
3.5 感觉比第二部好一点，不如第一部。是不是don’t look up这片之后，大反派都照着苹果创始人老板搞的？这个生物科技公司怎么感觉有点孟山都公司的味道。粮食短缺也是紧跟时事了
这种流水作业的视觉爽片没啥好评价的。唯一想吐槽的是，演员被恐龙追杀时表现得太平静了。印象中“侏罗纪公园”系列中某一部因为女主尖叫太多被刻薄的媒体吐槽电影主题就是“恐龙来啦，大家快跑！”不知道这部的演员是不是受了先前评论的影响。但也太矫枉过正了。哪有被恐龙追一句尖叫都没有的，哑巴吗？
今年电影院的救市之作，娱乐性很强，是一部爽片，侏罗纪公园的老角色回归情怀满满，但是由于人物太多，剧情线有点乱，恐龙追车戏很惊险，结尾画面拍出了人与自然纪录片的感觉，IMAX版本音效逼真惊悚感十足
既然已经走了纯巨物/恶兽恐怖向的偏门，时不时塞进有一搭没一搭的难笑烂梗、无用转场、呆滞特写，又是在糊弄谁呢？
典型的毫无诚意吃老本大片。全是关卡式片段拼接，个别几段其实还有点意思，但合在一起就是灾难，这根本就没有剧本吧。库克销毁证据就是把文件扔回收站，而且还没清空……侮辱性极强。
恐龙更多了，特别是几只鸟龙很惊喜，但很可惜全都是配角。作为大结局玩了些情怀梗，还行吧。把马耳他拍得太美了，而意大利拍得我完全没认出来。
因为疫情，4个月没去电影院了，体验还行，分低了，3.5星，算是合格的爆米花大片，有几处剧情转折确实有点生硬，不能细想。前半部分恐龙融入到现实生活中还是有点意思的，后半部分又回到了侏罗纪公园的感觉，恐龙的声音还得是去好点的电影院体验更有感觉
这真的不是精灵宝可梦前传吗？看电影的时候时而觉得情怀还挺值钱的，时而觉得情怀还挺不值钱的。4
人太多了，为了情怀，搞得一大堆人窜来窜去，眼花缭乱。故事么弱智得不得了，分支情节太散且敷衍，恐龙打斗也实在太水，南方巨兽龙一秒就被戳死，完全没有第二部精彩。
靠封控期消化侏羅紀系列的新鮮記憶，在IMAX廳兜起五花八门的劇情梗。中、老年組紛紛合體撒糖。成年人忙著拯救自然，孩子急於了解自我。反派來來回回，吳博士及庫克或成最大贏家。侏羅紀拍出碟中諜效果，熟悉的恐懼與歡樂，正是此刻的我太需要的維他命。(和平IMAX賽高！
反派黑了一波库克，弱智的剧情，找回侏罗纪公园的主演来了一波情怀
或许因为过去的梦太美丽了，后面的坑越来越难填了，只能以这样的方式，与我们的侏罗纪告别。
可能是在家看小屏幕的缘故，感觉真的不怎么样。整个故事很无聊，角色过多导致情节线杂乱，而且这些角色都很工具化，在吸引人方面，这些人类角色加在一起甚至都不及小蓝母女可爱，而且大家演得好随意啊，松松垮垮地就把钱给挣了（Laura Dern的表演得还不如人家中学生演课本剧）。
作为一部恐龙电影如此平庸和无趣，看不到丝毫想象力，剧情也充满着生硬的推进与转折，就算把初代演员拉回来卖情怀搞致敬也难以挽尊。
两代主角聚首赚一点情怀，但其实剧情整体挺无趣的，非常俗套的好莱坞式套路，各种剧情拼凑感明显，说到底还是一部观众主导的续作，本来恐龙与人共存的概念挺好的，可惜沦为一个可有可无的背景，最后还是回归主题乐园式的情节，最大的看点就是看恐龙了，但是对于非恐龙迷来说确实兴奋不起来。7
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