The Independent - London, May 14th, 2001
THE SAD irony of Douglas Adams's early death, at the age of 49, is that he was finally doing something that he had wanted since he first began writing comic sketches for the Cambridge Footlights: writing a Hollywood movie script. It was a script for the film version of his The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the other irony is that it was the massive success of that hugely popular and highly influential creation that deflected him from his screenwriting ambitions for so many years.
"I've always wanted to write film scripts," he said. "I thought Hitch Hiker's would be the thing to take m...
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