The writers also added cameo characters from history like the legendary Bass Reeves (Gary Beadle), who escaped slavery and became a deputy U.S. Goaded by a hostile fellow member, he bets a considerable sum (around $3 million today) that he can make it back to the club 80 days later, by 1 p.m.
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The series begins in a stodgy men's social club in London, the Reform Club, where Fogg reads an article describing a recently finished Indian railway line that makes it theoretically possible to traverse the globe in 80 days. “But the show looks at the social mores and expectations of the era with a 21st-century lens.” “We are in the world of 1872 it’s very much of the time,” Tennant said. An ambitious young journalist, Abigail Fortescue (Leonie Benesch), and an updated version of Passepartout (played by the Black French actor Ibrahim Koma) share the limelight with Phileas Fogg (Tennant), the buttoned-up Englishman whose initial ideas about the world are based on a colonial-era vision typified by our grand hotel surroundings. A less faithful version, from 2004, featured Jackie Chan as the story’s (originally French) valet, Passepartout.īut this version is tailored to contemporary sensibilities, introducing a diverse cast of characters. There have been many film and television productions inspired by Verne’s novel, most notably Michael Todd’s 1956 version starring David Niven, which won an Academy Award for best picture and included cameos by Noël Coward, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra and Buster Keaton, among others. 2 on PBS’s “Masterpiece.” (In Britain, it debuted on Dec. The eight-part “Around the World,” a zippy take on the Verne story, will premiere on Jan. Ten months later, the finishing tape is behind them. “It feels very special that we made it back and the finishing tape is in sight.”
“I was packing my suitcase for Cape Town when South Africa announced a lockdown, and they said, ‘Stand down,’” Tennant recalled. It was February 2021, and it was Tennant’s last day in Cape Town, where he and the rest of the cast of “Around the World” had gathered to complete filming, almost a year after the pandemic had put a stop to production. “An appropriate setting!” he said, alluding to the colonial era architecture and his role in “Around the World in 80 Days,” a new television series based on the 1872 novel by Jules Verne.
Sue Deeks, Head of BBC Programme Acquisition, said of the show “This is such an exciting project.CAPE TOWN, South Africa - David Tennant, sitting in a wicker chair in the large, empty garden of a grand hotel here, gestured at its pink pillared veranda.
The show will come to BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK over the Christmas and New year period with a release date to be confirmed. The series, which is adapted by a team of renowned writers led by Ashley Pharoah (Life On Mars, Ashes To Ashes, The Living And The Dead) and Caleb Ranson (Child Of Mine, Heartless).įilming on the eight-part series took place in 2020. Joining Tennant on the cast are rising French star, Ibrahim Koma (Je Suis Daddy, Mother Is Wrong), who takes on the role of the mercurial Passepartout an irrepressible chancer who falls into the role of Fogg’s ‘valet’, little knowing it will change his life forever and Leonie Benesch (The Crown, White Ribbon) playing Abigail Fix, the young journalist determined to make her mark in a man’s world and emerge from the long shadow of her British establishment father.įurther casting includes Shivani Ghai as Aouda and Rizelle Januk as Samanaz. – (C) Slim 80 Days / Federation Entertainment / Peu Communications / ZDF / Be-FILMS / RTBF (Télévision belge) – Photographer: Joe Alblas Around the World in 80 Days – The port town of Al Hudaydah, Yemen.
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