Green Wing and Free Agents star Stephen Mangan is to play the lead role in BBC4's adaptation of the late Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
Mangan will be joined by Darren Boyd as his sidekick Richard MacDuff and Cold Feet and Friends actor Helen Baxendale, as MacDuff's girlfriend Susan.
Adapted by the Bafta-winning writer Howard Overman – who is also behind Misfits, Vexed and Merlin – Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency follows the exploits of Adams's chaotic character as he uses his unusual methods to solve crimes.
Mangan said: "I've been a fan of Douglas Adams ever since the Hitchhiker's radio series which I used to record as a child and listen to over and over again in my bedroom. It's such a thrill to now be playing one of his brilliant characters.
"Dirk is a chaotic, anarchic force of nature with a totally unique take on the world. He is described as 'lazy, untidy, dismissive and unreliable'. I've absolutely no idea why they thought I'd be right for the role."
The Dirk Gently books have formed the basis of a play and a BBC Radio 4 series but have never before been filmed for TV.
Adams's agent, Ed Victor, said: "For all the years I represented the late, great Douglas Adams, the most substantial frustration for both of us was that we couldn't get films made either of Hitchhiker or Dirk.
"Douglas once said, memorably, that 'getting a film made in Hollywood was like trying to cook a steak by having a bunch of people come into the room and breathe on it'. Well, we did eventually get a film made in Hollywood of Hitchhiker and, tragically, Douglas didn't live to see it. Nor will he see this adaptation of Dirk – but it's worth bearing in mind that Douglas always thought Dirk would make a better film than Hitchhiker and I feel sure that this new TV drama with a terrific script by Howard Overman will prove his point."
Shooting begins this week in Bristol on the 60-minute drama, which is being made by ITV Studios in association with the Welded Tandem Picture Company.
The Dirk Gently production is to be directed by Damon Thomas – who also directed BBC4 drama The First Men in the Moon – and will air early next year.
谭耀文还不错。
KC不做对家做同场；庭审与勾心斗角得个样。脉络散乱不成章，气势未聚过早泄。最有趣处实则应在方生的小手段和智叔的大决意，但最大篇幅却落点于相互勾结的阴暗处。阴暗并非不足道，但起势凶得仿佛要谴责些什么，还不如闭嘴好好做戏。戏如人生，戏没做好，谈什么人生？
二星半，挺平庸的，因为廖启智遗作，所以加半颗星。
富家女被杀，凶手是地下情男友（正在选议员），穷人家孩子被诬陷，有钱有势的人只手遮天，证据被毁灭，证人被伤害，警察👮被收买，在看守所的被诬陷者也被各种殴打，一切似乎没有转机，个人的力量毕竟无法硬碰硬，最后只能做点擦边球的事情，伪造了一份文件，有个肯牺牲自己为女儿的父亲，不然应该也不会有真相出来吧
-冲着智叔最后一部电影
一定不要看国语版的 那个观影体验直接能给你拉到底
感觉好久没有看过这么精彩的法庭戏了。而且还是智叔的遗作。
方中信还是那么帅，张强还是那个常胜将军，不过这个案子的反转来的太过突兀，不够合理。但最后张强的话还是很令人动容。
公义要靠非法手段实现，每个人都为实现公义付出代价，这是法制的悲哀，公义与法制间矛盾这种早已拍滥的题材，依然一直有人拍，而这种对法制的不信任，试问又是因何而成？
看着富人碾压穷人就像降维打击，看得人难受的很。一个父亲为女儿愿意付出一切，一个父亲愿意为了一切牺牲儿子，虽然这些都不是高尚的人。律师感觉也是高危职业啊。。看得人还是蛮慌的。
本来勉强打个三分，但爱了这句话：“我是害怕究竟带她来到一个怎样的世界” 这个世界不是非黑即白，但是我们应当追求正义和分辨是非，而不是拿这些话去劝人权衡利益。
智叔遗作，一看到主角阵容就容易想起之前tvb经典的律政剧《律政强人》。东方李察基尔方中信确实很适合演律师，睿智的眼神，正气的形象很贴合。我看的粤语版，也算原汁原味吧，看国语配音版就比较吃亏，会嫌弃。谭耀文这次不再演坏人了，而一路向西的男主咋看都是坏！整体剧情还是有点不足，结局那一番正义凛然的发言应该就是能过审的原因吧，正能量满满呢！
有权的人的儿子杀了有钱的人的女儿，让穷人家的儿子去背锅。（人穷不老实也泡夜店），律师不屈服权贵剑走偏锋做了一份假的证据，让有权的和有钱的双方私下自相残杀解决。最终帮穷人打赢官司。这是什么狗血淋头的剧情啊。
走马观花的推理过程，感情转折都很刻意，如果结局不拉扯进来一个强大的势力是不是就没得打了？大团圆结局有tvb感觉，肯定的是方中信与智叔的演技，收放自如，张建声也可圈可点。
还不错的故事，但是爱民党没有被查就跟难受了
老戏骨演得好，剧本麻麻地了，警察的角色太单薄，太突然。
剧情没有什么悬念，给方中信一颗星，还是那么有型。
这个电影很有意思，用比较弱的故事讲非常深刻的立意，加上一众演员的表演都较为出色，能对故事起到一定支撑和推动作用。电影主线就是一起凶杀案，之所以观感有些索然无味，与呈现顺序有一定关系。当然案件的侧重点在法律精神不是法证探案，所以反派出场就能锁定凶手身份，让前半程的悬疑感尽失。后半程的绝地反击完全属于燃烧个人魅力，无疑廖启智智叔大杀四方，其背后方中信的手段虽不光彩，行为却赢得了尊重。
法庭戲太弱了，漏洞也多，應該打電話處理的事非要留下語音信息，一個不誠實證人讓案件早早失去懸念，導致兩位律師立場轉變生硬。
本片顯然具有香港本土色彩，在大陸長達三年才通過的審查得以在網絡平台播放，又得以在香港上映。該片由富商女兒被殺的案件開始，從中牽連了地產商，政党，新聞媒體以及腐敗的警察等，主要針對是隻手遮天下的在建政黨的野心，編導武戲文拍，用大義凜然的姿態批判了司法界的僵化，如今看來滿是唏噓，透露了香港多年來政商的微妙關係，容易對號入號。
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