Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. (SPOILER!) (Score 1)

I'm not positive, but wasn't "The Matrix" supposed to be a computer program? Where all of those people in the arrays of pods are just tapped into the "The Matrix". If so, I think it has a lot in common with HHGTTG, except that in HHGTTG the people are actually part of the program (called Earth) instead of outside of it physically like "The Matrix". Also, I seem to remember an "Outer Limits" episode with people asleep in pods that were interacting with each other in a dream world. (a log cabin in a snow storm)
Has anyone heard anything about the new "Hitchhiker's Guide" comming out of Hollywood in 2000?

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