Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at anybody at that moment he probably would have burnt his signature on them." In the 2005 movie adaptation, the gun has a sophisticated look. It is more of a white sphere that covers the hand and has a trigger on the inside. This version is wielded by Marvin. The Point of View Gun is a device created by Douglas Adams for the movie version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; it does not appear in any of the previous versions of the story. According to the film, the gun was created by Deep Thought prior to its long
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) the other characters. He made this character an alien and, remembering an idea he supposedly had had while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria in 1971, decided that this character would be a "roving reporter" for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a pan-galactic encyclopaedia and travel guide. Recollections by his friends at the time indicate that Adams first spoke of the idea of "hitchhiking around the galaxy" while on holiday in Greece in 1973. As the first episode's writing progressed, the "Guide" became the central focus of his story, and Adams decided to base the whole series