Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently Getting TV Adaptation From Chronicle Writer Max Landis — cinemablend.com

Landis will pen a script for Dirk Gently, though THR doesn’t make it clear whether he’s only writing a pilot or if he’s mapping out something larger. It’s also not obvious whether this will be a direct adaptation of 1987’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, its 1988 sequel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, or if it will be an entirely new story set in Adams’ wild and wonderful universe. I think I’d even be accepting if this series was a comedic case-of-the-week procedural, assuming Gently is the same quirky psychic he is on the page.

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