Q: IMDb.com mentions that Joby Talbot is doing the score for the film - can you describe how that's going, if it's adding an integral part to the film or just keeping itself alongside and not intruding on the film?

Garth: I think Joby Talbot is the greatest composer in the world. Hearing him play me demos on his piano is one of the best bits of the job. He's already been to Prague to record a temp score with a bloody huge orchestra. It was extraordinary stuff. I cannot wait to do it for real. You'll love it. I'll never forget asking him if he'd like to write the score for the movie. I said, "it's the Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy, do you know it?" "Know it?" he said. "The last 3 times I read the book, I read it out loud to my entire family!"

Nick: Joby has been amazing so far, we now like to get him along to whenever we decide a review a cut, because he always has so many ideas, without ever being intrusive. In a few areas of the film we have actually started with a score in my mind and then filmed or edited to that, so I would definitely say integral. Joby is also now working with Nigel Godrich on creating a specific sound of music for the Guide itself.

Mild-mannered Englishman Arthur Dent's house is slated for destruction to make way for a new superhighway coincedentally the same day that the Earth is slated for destruction to make way for a new galaxy throughfare....

Fortunately, one of Arthur's friends, Ford Prefect, is a researcher for a universal help guide known as the [insert title of movie here]...

Meanwhile, The President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox and his lovely partner Trillian have stolen a space ship that runs on an Improbability Drive...

Through some misadventures involving Vogons and fried eggs, Zaphod and Trilian (and Marvin, the manically depressed robot), manage to rescue castaways Arthur and Ford, and thus the adventure of discovering the answers of the universe ensue....

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Originally posted by joan hue:
Can anyone tell me what this movie will be about. Please??? Thank you.

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Life, the Universe and Everything, of course.

Dylan

NP: The Last Emperor (Sakamoto)

Biography for Joby Talbot

In 2003 Joby Talbot was recognised by The Evening Standard (London), Broadcast and Campaign magazines as one of the `UK's hottest new artists' working in visual media. He began writing and performing in the early 90s, joining Neil Hannon in the UK pop phenomenon, The Divine Comedy. The successful partnership produced seven albums for The Divine Comedy, Ute Lemper's critical masterpiece, Punishing Kiss and a live collaboration with Michael Nyman, which was awarded the Edinburgh Festival's Critics Choice in 1997. Now highly in demand as a pop arranger, Talbot went on to work with artists such as Travis, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney and producer Nigel Godrich. In 2000, Joby's score to the primetime comedy The League of Gentlemen won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Title Music and a series of high profile commissions followed from BBC television. In the same year The British Film Institute asked Talbot to compose a new score for Hitchcock's silent classic The Lodger, and the film together with the new score is performed regularly across Europe and in the States. As a classical composer, Talbot has worked with all the major UK orchestras and has been commissioned by the prestigious BBC Proms Festival. His music is performed on an international platform by artists such as percussionist, Evelyn Glennie and The King's Singers. Recently he formed his own performing ensemble who showcased work from his new album The Dying Swan : Music for 1-7 Players at the London Jazz Festival. John Schaefer from New York's Radio WNYC voted the album No. 2 in his Top 10 albums of 2003. Following the tradition of the great British composers before him, Talbot now records full orchestral scores for film and television. Robbie the Reindeer in legends of the Lost Tribe, produced by the BBC was shown on television in the US (CBS) and the UK (BBC 1) on Christmas Day 2002 and his score to the BT Broadband 'Burst Pipe' advertisement has been nominated by the MPA for Best Commissioned Music in an adverting campaign. In 2004, Classic FM appointed Joby Talbot as the radio station's first ever 'Composer in Residence'.

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