American broadcaster Hulu works on a new adaptation

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is to be made into a TV series again – this time for the US market.

The Hulu on-demand service is developing a new adaptation of  Douglas Adams’ comedy sci-fi classic, Hollywood website Deadline reports.

It says the show will be overseen by showrunner Carlton Cuse, who previously worked on Lost, with writer Jason Fuchs, whose credits include Wonder Woman and  Ice Age: Continental Drift.

Rights to the story of Arthur Dent are owned by Disney, which made the 2005  movie starring  Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, John Malkovich, Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman that received a mixed critical reaction.

No other details of the new adaptation – including casting   – were given.

Originally a radio comedy broadcast on Radio 4 in 1978, it has alsoe been adapted into stage shows, novels, comic books, a 1981 TV series – starring  Simon Jones, David Dixon, Mark Wing-Davey and Sandra Dickinson – and a 1984 video game

Published: 25 Jul 2019