Much like the Lord of the Rings, the movie will be aimed at a more general audience than the cult of people devoted to the books, since they know the fans will go, love it or hate it. Hence, you'll get some story simplification and lose some details that will make the fans cringe. I found that the Hitchhikers series went down hill the longer it went on. One of the great joys of the books were the absurdities that were left hanging (like what the newly created pot of petunias thought as it plummeted towards the ground). When things like that were explained in the latter books they were much less satisfying than the idea that life is absurd that I got from the first couple of books. Getting back on the subject of the list, thats one of the best things I've found about the Dragerea books is that even when one question gets answered, another one shows up. Or that the series went where it needed to, even if it left some plot lines hanging. Because real life leaves some plot lines hanging. --Andrew