WHA?

[teddog]

This left Imagineering without a movie or a recognizable set of characters to build Epcot's "Space" pavilion around. This situation became particularly dire with this month's announcement that Walt Disney Studios was putting its proposed film version of Douglas Adams' The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy into turnaround. This meant that the Mouse had no space based project at all in its film development pipeline.

I found this on Laughingplace.com and it was dated 2001. Apparently Epoct could have had an Hitch-hiker Guide themed ride if the movie went through. Holy crap!