Way back, before a Chinese person left a fridge door open in a lab so we all had to work from home for two years, Carlton Cuse (Jack Ryan) started work on a reboot of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
It was to be a serialisation on Hulu.
He was partnered with Jason Fuchs (IT: Welcome To Derry), with both of them writing and executive producing for ABC Signature.
The, nothing happened.
Now the Emmy winner has said that the project is dead, because they simply couldn’t crack it. In an interview with Screen Rant, he said it defeated the writers room, who couldn’t make it work:
“That happens [sometimes when] you work on things. It was a worthwhile shot to take, because I love that story so much. Even though it didn’t come to fruition, it was really fun to get to think about it a lot, and to reabsorb myself in that story and that world, because it was so brilliant.”
Starting life as a BBC radio serial, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy then went on to be a series of novels and a highly regarded BBC television adaptation.
A movie adaptation was made in 2005 starring Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def and Alan Rickman. That is not so highly regarded, but it contains some good stuff.
