Thumbing Up a Ride; Don't Panic! The Destruction of Earth Turns Out to Be Quite Funny; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Hitchhiker's relies on a Milky Way's worth of special effects to create, among other things, the destruction of our blue planet and spaceships capable of intergalactic flight. Nowadays, of course, these kinds of effects are created entirely on computers. Hitchhiker's is no different in terms of its space scenes but when it came time to create the film's supporting cast of aliens, the Vogons, director Garth Jennings (at the helm of his first feature) called upon Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Instead of lifeless digital blips on a green screen, the Vogons are actual creatures.

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Thumbing Up a Ride; Don't Panic! The Destruction of Earth Turns Out to Be Quite Funny; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

People have been combining things they love for centuries--chocolate and peanut butter, ham and cheese, drinking and driving. The 'late Douglas Adams combined his two ab...

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