9. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Buena Vista PicturesYou might ask whether this film was part of a franchise at all. After all, despite five books in the series, we only got the first one as a film. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy deserved to be the first in a franchise, not a one-off adaptation of Douglas Adam's beloved series. The film was great too; just look at the brilliant cast. Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Sherlock and Fargo), Zooey Deschanel (New Girl), Sam Rockwell (Iron Man 2), Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Harry Potter) and the narration by none other than Stephen Fry himself. That's a dream cast which could have been reunited countless times. Who wouldn't want to watch Rickman's depressed Marvin the paranoid android, again and again? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Mostly Harmless and And Another Thing are all sitting there, ready for their big screen adaptation. We could have had a hilarious, alternative franchise to the likes of Star Trek and Star Wars. Doctor Who does exceedingly well outside the UK with its very British tone. Could the Hitchhiker's franchise have had a similar effect on the big screen?