A 1989 TV mini-series starring Pierce Brosnan, and Eric Idle, which critics complained went at far too leisurely a pace for a story about a race against time.
Around the World in 80 Days (Burbank Animation), an Animated Adaptation from Burbank Films Australia, which is also an Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation, albeit a compressed one.A famous 1981 animated Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation, Around the World with Willy Fog.A 1976 anime film, Puss 'n Boots: Around the World in 80 Days, which stars Toei Animation’s mascot, Pero.A 1972 animated version in which Fogg's bet is motivated more out of love (for Lord Maze's niece Belinda) than money notable as the first Australian cartoon to be networked in the US.The 1963 film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze, in which Fogg's grandson attempts to repeat his grandfather's trip around the world (without spending any money, otherwise speedy modern travel would make it too easy to replicate the feat) and the Three Stooges are his servants who accompany him.This version won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1956. A major 1956 film starring David Niven, Cantinflas and Shirley MacLaine which includes the travelers taking a balloon ride part of the way, a travel option which the original Fogg dismissed as impractical.The book has numerous adaptations, first on stage and then on film and TV. With only moments left to the deadline, Fogg and company race to the Club and make it just in time. Passepartout is sent to get a vicar to arrange the wedding, only to learn that the gang forgot they gained a day due to traveling east and actually arrived early. However, Aouda inadvertently saves the day: both in love with Fogg and feeling guilty that she may have cost him his bet, she proposes to the now-ruined Phileas and he joyfully accepts. Although Fix later lets Fogg out of jail upon realizing he made a mistake, they are apparently too late as they arrive in London. So, as Fogg begins his race, Fix follows him, unsuccessfully trying to keep his quarry stationary and initially unaware of how far he is going until it becomes more worthwhile to help Fogg complete his journey back to England where Fix can legally arrest him.Īs the gang continues their race through more adventures, it comes to a screeching halt when they reach Britain, where Fix arrests Fogg. Unfortunately, there is a bank robbery in London and although Fogg is completely innocent, his trip abroad seems too coincidental by Detective Fix's reckoning. Although Fogg tries to help her reach relatives in another safe British colony, this proves impossible and she becomes their fast companion for keeps who herself becomes more and more attracted to the dashing and intriguing Fogg. The most notable one in the first half is rescuing the beautiful Indian woman, Aouda, from being forced into a ceremonial self-immolation in India. Thus committed, Fogg begins his trip at once, bringing along his new manservant, Jean Passepartout, who ironically wanted a nice sedate job after years traveling about in various jobs such as an acrobat or fireman.Īlong the way, Fogg and Passepartout have numerous adventures as they struggle to keep to a strict schedule. In 1872 London, UK, the very proper English gentleman Phileas Fogg finds himself in a wager at his social club that he can travel around the world in eighty days, a seemingly impossible feat to Fogg's doubters.
I found that this approach allowed interesting themes to emerge around whose stories get told, whose stories dominate and who should stand aside to give space to the untold ones.One of the all-time great adventure novels and certainly the most famous non-science fiction one by Jules Verne. Juliet Forster, creative director of The York Theatre Royal and director of Around the World in 80 Days, comments, I was amazed that we generally know more about Jules Verne’s fictional characters than we do about the real woman, Nellie Bly, who set the record for circumnavigating the globe in 1889 (and did the journey in less time…) I knew I had to tell her story. Rounding off the cast as the sharp-witted Knife Thrower, Detective Fix, is Eddie Mann (Rocketman, Paramount Macbeth, Three Inch Fools Back to The Future, Secret Cinema). Wilson Benedito (50 Ways to Kill Your Lover, Amazon Alan Carr’s New Year Specstacular, Channel 4) provides comedic relief as The Clown, Passepartout. Genevieve Sabherwal (My Grandma’s a Walrus, Southwark Playhouse Speed Dial, Pleasance Spooky Ship, Bristol Old Vic) will be performing as the Aouda, The Trick Rider.
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