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Around the World in 80 Days is a historical drama adventure television series based on the 1872 Jules Verne novel of the same name, in which, for a bet, Phileas Fogg travels the world in 80 days by various means both traditional and new.
Phileas Fogg (/ ˈ f ɪ l i ə s ˈ f ɒ ɡ / FIL-ee-əs FOG) is the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Inspirations for the character were the American entrepreneur George Francis Train and American writer and adventurer William Perry Fogg. [1] [2]
The plot centres around Phileas Fogg (Pierce Brosnan) making a £30,000 wager with three members of the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days. He takes with him his newly employed French valet Passepartout (), and is pursued by Detective Wilbur Fix (Peter Ustinov) who mistakenly thinks Fogg robbed the Bank of England and is using the wager as a cover to escape capture.
The narrative unfolds with diverse episodes: an endeavor to purloin a cream pie on a British cargo ship bound for Turkey, an observation of an intricate Indian dance at a maharajah's palace featuring the Stooges, and an arrest in China, where the characters endure Communist brainwashing, leading to their release adrift in a small boat.
In the 2014 80 Days game based on the book, Passepartout is the player character, accompanying Phileas Fogg around the world in a text based world, designed around a branching plot format. In the VR game "Walkabout Mini Golf", a DLC level is based on the book, where in the hard version of the level, the player plays as Passepartout collecting ...
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 (equivalent to £ ...
Around the World in 80 Days (French: Le Tour du monde en 80 jours) [2] is a 2021 French-language animated adventure comedy film based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel of the same name. Directed by Samuel Tourneux (in his feature directorial debut ) from a screenplay by Gerry Swallow and David Michel (who also acted as an executive producer), the ...
Inspired by Jules Verne's classic 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days, in which a character named Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days or less, Palin takes on the same task, prohibited from using aircraft in order to use a combination of trains, boats and other forms of transport, to take him across ...