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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
The Big Screen. In 2005, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was made into a movie starring a number of well-known actors, including Mos Def, Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren.
Inspiration. Douglas Adams supposedly had the idea to write The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy one night while backpacking in Austria. Apparently, he was drunkenly falling asleep and thinking about the travel book he’d brought, The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Europe, when he decided it would be funny to write a guidebook for the galaxy.