Hulu Developing HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY TV Series

Are you someone who really knows where your towel is?

Deadline has revealed that the Hulu streaming service is developing a television series based on Douglas Adams' beloved comedic sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

According to the article, the series "follows the intergalactic adventures of Arthur Dent, a hapless Englishman, following the destruction of Earth by the Vogons, a race of unpleasant and bureaucratic aliens."

Carlton Cuse and Jason Fuchs, both fans of Adams' five Hitchhiker's novels, will write, executive produce and serve as showrunners for the proposed series, a modern updating of the story.  The project is now in development at Hulu via ABC Signature and Cuse’ Genre Arts.  Fuchs is writing the pilot script.

Created by Adams in 1978, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy originally began as a BBC Radio series, with the first four parts adapted by Adams as a novel one year later.  The novel became extremely popular, with Adams writing four additional novels in the series -- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.  A sixth installment, And Another Thing..., was published in 2009, eight years after Adams' death, and written by Eoin Colfer with the support of Jane Belson, Adams' widow.

The novel was first adapted as a BBC TV series in 1981, with six episodes starring Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, David Dixon as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Sandra Dickinson as Trillian.  In 2005, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film adaptation was released, with Adams co-writing the screenplay before his death in 2001.  The film starred Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, Mos Def as Ford Prefect, Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Zooey Deschanel as Trillian.