They say you should never meet your heroes.
Always meet your heroes, David tells EW.
When we adapted the play, we changed the plot [of the first book].
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I said to him very timidly afterward, Is that okay, that we changed it?
And he went, Oh, you fixed it.
David went on to work for Adams production company before starting his own.
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Dirk discovers that holistic detectives can have more than one past and more than one childhood to spark nightmares.
We wanted to reintroduce the character, and comics seemed like the most natural medium for that.
1and borrows from Adams unfinished novel of the same name.
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The Salmon of Doubtwas so not meant to be the last Dirk Gently novel.
The big thing thats in it that I found really compelling is Dirk comes to America.
We always knew that we wanted to bring Dirk to America, butThe Salmon of Doubtgave us posthumous permission.
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That was such a great metaphor for what Dirks ability is.
Dirk is a thinking human, so he suffers from doubt.
So heisa salmon of doubt.
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David says this duology within the character is the key to translating Gently into all multiple mediums.
He has this essence of kitten-like inquisitiveness and fearlessness, but also a very sensitive side.
You have to get both of those things right, says David.
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He has no friends or family.
How many alternate timelines are there?
How do we tie those together so theres cohesiveness or interconnectivity between all the versions of Dirk?
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Theres tons ofDoctor WhoandHitchhikersEaster eggs buried in there as well.
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