But of course, that doesn’t really explain the breadth of it. He needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from the universe that this guy, Todd Brotzman, played by Elijah Wood, is the guy to help him through this mystery. It’s about a holistic detective, which means he has this power to see connections between things that other people cannot see, and he’s trying to solve the mystery of a billionaire who gets murdered. When people ask you what this show is about, what do you tell them?īARNETT: You’re right, I have had to think about this a lot because a one-line description for this show is difficult to come up with. Max Landis has said that he went “full weird” with this show, which is clearly a great description, but it also makes it pretty impossible to describe to people.
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Dirk’s philosophy hinges on the interconnectedness of all things and, as a result, he believes that he and Todd Brotzman ( Elijah Wood), a bellhop at the hotel where the body was found, are destined to untangle the mystery together, even though Todd may not be as willing to embrace that notion.ĭuring this exclusive phone interview with Collider, British actor Samuel Barnett talked about this unique and bizarre world, why he thought this was such a brilliant script, feeling like he understood how to bring Dirk Gently to life, that show creator Max Landis told him where the entire season would be headed, how other people see Dirk compared to how Dirk sees himself, the experience of working with an acting partner like Elijah Wood, how this show is like an escape room, and that the possibilities for future seasons are wide open.
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Toward the end of his life he was a sought-after lecturer on topics including technology and the environment.The wonderfully weird BBC America series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, adapted from the novels by Douglas Adams ( The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), follows the fast-talking, eccentric Dirk Gently ( Samuel Barnett), who is hired to investigate the case of a murdered millionaire. His fans and friends also knew Adams as an environmental activist and a lover of fast cars, cameras, the Macintosh computer, and other "techno gizmos". A posthumous collection of essays and other material, including an incomplete novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002. Adams also originated the idea for the computer game Starship Titanic, which was produced by a company that Adams co-founded, and adapted into a novel by Terry Jones. His other written works include the Dirk Gently novels, and he co-wrote two Liff books and Last Chance to See, itself based on a radio series. In addition to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams wrote or co-wrote three stories of the science fiction television series Doctor Who and served as Script Editor during the seventeenth season.
He was known to some fans as Bop Ad (after his illegible signature), or by his initials "DNA". The series has also been adapted for live theatre using various scripts the earliest such productions used material newly written by Adams. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician.
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