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They released a trailer at ComicCon. There's a few places Online you can download it (check slashdot article for mirrors).

Should be sweet http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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For the love of whatever major diety will listen please don't let this movie be butchered and ruined by those in control to make money!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

I'll go download the trailer http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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So far all i've seen is that Marvin, as opposed to the tv series where he is a 6 foot tall robot, is a little robot (much like an aibo) played by the same guy who did wicket the Ewok.

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Can you post a link to the article. I'm having trouble finding it.

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I always read yahoo movies for movie news.

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&id=1808404419&cf=prev

couldn't find the original Marvin picture I saw but I found the Douglas Adams site page. It has a picture of Warwick Davis wearing the Marvin suit.

http://douglasadams.com/movie/


Edit: oh, and here some pages with the trailer link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2642384
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F1816600?thread=453545

Edit(2): which doesn't work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif .

[ July 28, 2004, 05:57: Message edited by: Randallw ]

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For the moment, you seem to be able to get it here. It lacks footage from the actual movie. Or, at least, it lacks footage of people or people-like things from the movie and that dissappoints me somewhat.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Can hollywood keep itself from butchering ANYTHING?!?!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well the links I supplied point out that the trailer is more of a ....can't think of the word....you know, sort of introduction but without any footage.
Narf, what did Hollywood butcher?. Marvins size?.

Edit: Is it just me or does Marvin now look like a midget Stormtrooper?. They must have made a mistake when they grew the clone.

[ July 28, 2004, 09:17: Message edited by: Randallw ]

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I see no way for this to end well.

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Sorry?. Is the thread going in the wrong direction. Did I bring up something bad http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well the links I supplied point out that the trailer is more of a ....can't think of the word....you know, sort of introduction but without any footage.
Narf, what did Hollywood butcher?. Marvins size?.

Edit: Is it just me or does Marvin now look like a midget Stormtrooper?. They must have made a mistake when they grew the clone. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It changes the whole feel. As I just thought, 'Ompa loompa'. I may be really pessimistic and jumping the gun, but I don't think this is something they should or can really change anything of without messing things up. They should get the guys who did the comic Version of it to do the movie. That had the exact same feel, as far as I can tell and while they cut stuff, the stuff they left was word for word, as nearly as I can tell.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"> <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think we're all being rather cynical because popular sci-fi turned to movies are always butchered and turned into a $$$ fest. Very rarely does a sci-fi succeed when the hollywood producers wrap their grimy hands round it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

EDIT: AIIIIIIIIIIIEEEE!!!! I just saw the new marvin suit!!! What have they done!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif I had some glimmer of hope for this, now i can't see any at all.

*clutches his hitchhikers guide to the galaxy books close to him and sobs* http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

[ July 28, 2004, 10:36: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

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I have the episodes on tape and Marvin is a big silver robot with a perpetually grumpy face that fits his voice. Now he will look like an overweight midget stormtrooper. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Disclaimer: when i call him a midget I am in no way attempting to be derogatory of Mr Warwick, I just can't think of a better way to describe the new Marvins (the robot, not the actor's) size.

Edit: When the inevitable toy comes out you could tear off his beach ball head and put a Clone helmet on him. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ July 28, 2004, 11:08: Message edited by: Randallw ]

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHY?!?! That link with the marvin costume is evil! Why did you post it? WHY?!?!

Be calm... Don't Panic. Have a Pan Galactic Gargle BLaster.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">*Takes the Pan Galactic Gargle BLaster and drinks it in one quick gulp!*

"I need this!"

*RD passes out to forget the clonetrooper/oompa lumpa abomination!*

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What!! That's what Marvin is going to look like???

ARRRGGHH !!!

That couldn't be Douglas Adams' idea! Sadly, he is not around anymore to make things better... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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*Regians some sense of sentience, hands kamog a Pan Galactic Gargle BLaster and then falls asleep*

I hate to see what else they are going to do...

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In the Marvin picture, there's a hand holding a huge white sphere above the actor dressed in the Marvin costume. Is that big white globe Marvin's head? It seems disproportionately too large. And where are his eyes, mouth, etc?

I wonder what Zaphod is going to look like. I can't imagine how they could possibly make a two-headed guy look good.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">yes, the white sphere is his head. I'm not sure if its a white ball or like pacman with no eyes.

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You know, I think it would be a lot funnier if Marvin delivers his "Here I am, brain the size of a large planet, and I'm delegated to opening doors" lines when he has a tiny "head", or even a relatively normal sized head. But the big head just makes it look insanely stupid, and that's not DNA's style of humor. I don't like it.

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As I said earlier he looks like that little black and white robot they make in Japan that walks down stairs. Perhaps they are trying to make him look like a modern robot, but some executive thought "wouldn't it be funny if he had a big head, you know because he's so small........and it'd be even funnier if he had a beergut"

Edit: just tried looking for more pictures of the midget stormtrooper and found this site. The image is a step up from the tv Version (which was good enough) and way better than the movie one.

Edit: first edit makes more sense if I bother to actually give the link
http://www.kodie.demon.co.uk/marvin.htm
and I finally found the original picture I mentioned. his head IS like pacmans without eyes.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjs2000/protomarvin.htm

[ July 30, 2004, 04:09: Message edited by: Randallw ]

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Paint him blue and he looks a bit like megaman...

GET EQUIPPED WITH TOP SPIN!

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The "new" Marvin doesn't bother me. I loved the old Marvin from the TV series but I'm prepared to have faith in whoever made the decision to design Marvin like this. After all, someone had the sheer brilliance to cast Martin Freedman as Arthur Dent. And that's an encouraging thought, surely.

The thing that amazes me most is that we've been discussing a book-to-movie conVersion for two whole pages now and no one has mentioned Starship Troopers. I mean that's how these threads normally go isn't it?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">you say that like it qualifes as a conVersion

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Of course now you mention it.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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The new Marvin looks like the Japanese cartoon character Kogepan.
http://www.rebsig.com/kogepan/