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.
李相日还是有两把刷子（演员不评价了，选角一开始就不看好
镜头叙事很美（横滨流星演家暴男蛮有感觉的🥵
什么杰宝玩意儿啊，这崩了啊，这就感觉上一部是John Wick第二部直接变Neo了啊，感觉完全没明白第一部能火的爽点在哪里......
打戏堪比扎导版的超人，设定类似漫威的变种人，剧情还行，打的不错，就是特效有点抠钱了。
拖这么长，有必要吗…明明100分钟可以解决的故事硬生生拉到两个半小时，叙事结构对不起卡司这么尽力的表演…难得看到主要演员全员状态在线的戏
为本就不佳的剧本雪上加霜，亢长的剧情，一味疯狂CG，不太行的演技，仿如在看“特效有点一般的暮光之城”第一部动作戏的镜头设计和节奏优势在这部完全没了…唯一值得称赞的是世界观在逐步扩展，但与此同时并不期待下一部…另，具子允一个镜头都能完胜
特效有点尴尬了啊 魔女1号真的好有表现力啊 那单眼皮的双眼就是最厉害的！
动作不够动作
李相日还是一如既往地慢，加上这次没看过原作也不知道他又自作主张改了多少剧情，反正我是没看懂到底想说什么……世人的偏见和误解吗？其实男主并不是炼铜癖只是X无能？……村长真的辛苦了，愿裸贷早日还完（× 但是摄影是真不错，OST也特别好，尤其丝丝大街奔走插叙河边分别情绪拉满。片尾滚字幕那段好像星际探索的says，留意了下曲作是原摩利彦。ps：听说流星ins掉了3w粉，就离大谱。樱花妹好好珍惜你日还敢于突破自我挑战DV男这种渣设定的人气若手吧（也没有说他演得多好的意思），本熊猫妹马上去关注。
给男女主披上难言之隐也不能改变这就是个略狗血的爱情故事 太小家子气了
全片充斥的破碎感就像他们的人生一样……更纱还是勇的，人还是忠于自己更重要，与人为善，既然改变不了这个世界，那就选择流浪，生活在一个个新“世界”！就是慢镜头，长镜头太多了，可能想营造意境吧，但是反而感觉牺牲故事了……
两个半小时，犹犹豫豫、拖拖拉拉，角色单薄暧昧。丝丝有突破但还欠点火候，眼波流动还是很灵！其他两位，就脸谱化瞪眼睛。
饿看完我怎么就同情不起来呢，不知道是不是电影拍摄的问题，这俩人第二次相遇明明可以避免事态发展成这样，但是豆任由事态往最坏的方向发展发展，特别是女主，对广濑丝丝无感，她的演技总给我一种灵魂出窍置身事外的感觉，子役演的就自然多了
韩国版超能力者 那几个韩国人就别装中国人说话了吧听的好难受啊明明说的是中国话我这个中国人都听不懂啊啊啊啊啊 打架也要戴口罩这是对中国人有什么误解吗。。来看金多美的结果就最后出来客串一下解说吗？？？打斗比第一部还开挂装比好几倍
就挺好笑的 蹩脚的中国话和流利的英语形成鲜明对比 一星给队长姐姐
以创作而言，从李相日自己的《恶人》到《禁室培欲》，关于共情斯德哥尔摩症侯群的合法性，来反衬“正常”生活更泯灭人性已经不算新鲜的主题了，因而此次的两个半小时里李相日明显塞入了过多的讨论内容，同时看到愤世嫉俗、原生家庭苦难、苦恋抓马，甜甜恋爱。事实证明，近几年“流行”的长篇电影绝非适合每个导演，李相日就暴露了他的煽情、矫情属性。表达主题的失焦看似最后都“合理”收尾在男主的疾病上，但这一处理，加上片尾的闪回段落，又是在普世价值边缘作死的任性，稍微理解偏差，就会滑向在为恋T洗白，而男主疾病本身，不但有着隐含的Y具崇拜“合理性”，且还落入了“真正的好男人就是去势的男人”这一刻板印象，猎奇有余，对于理解人物却是在强说愁了。《怒》的短片拼盘点到为止就恰到好处，要让李相日出好作品，还是得限制他的时长。
除了横滨流星打女人以外没什么好看的。希望丝丝以后能再多露一点
跳出电影，假如男主是一个猥琐男，我还能代入他们之间的情愫以及羁绊吗？我想我不能。阿文真的对更纱没有任何企图吗？一个如此信任他的小女孩，可以说是任他摆布，他为何好像一点都不“见色起意”，简直不像一个正常的男人。
铺满音乐的镜头充斥空洞，还是太轻巧了，连李相日擅长的多线叙事都完全崩坏，多部未华子的角色可有可无，当角色可有可无时，注定是无聊的，《怒》的音乐掩盖了李相日剧作的大多数问题
这能力有点变态了，东方凤凰琴吗，还是喜欢第一部动作戏的飒爽感，起码还是人类的打斗
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