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Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 American action adventure comedy film based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel of the same name and remake of the movie of the same name of 1956. It stars Jackie Chan , Steve Coogan , Cécile de France and Jim Broadbent .
Aouda (औद / Auda), a character in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, is an Indian princess accompanied by Phileas Fogg and Passepartout.The daughter of a Bombay Parsi merchant, she was married against her will to the old raja of Bundelkhand.
Around the World in 80 Days was produced by Broadway showman Michael Todd, based on a musical by Orson Welles [13] and Jules Verne's adventure novel. Todd had never before produced a film. [ 1 ] The director he hired, Michael Anderson, had directed the highly acclaimed British World War II feature The Dam Busters (1955), George Orwell 's ...
Even the title Around the World in Eighty Days is not original. Several sources have been hypothesized as the origins of the story. [6] Another early reference comes from the Italian traveler Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri. He wrote a book in 1699 that was translated into French: Voyage around the World or Voyage du Tour du Monde (1719 ...
Around the World in a Day was released to mixed reception among crossover audiences after the success of Purple Rain, though it nonetheless sold relatively well and became Prince and the Revolution's second number-one album on the Billboard 200. Two of its four singles reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100: "Raspberry Beret" and "Pop Life".
Jean Passepartout (French: [ʒɑ̃ paspaʁtu]) is a fictional character in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1873. He is the French valet of the novel's English main character, Phileas Fogg. His surname translates literally to "goes everywhere", but “passepartout” is also an idiom meaning "skeleton key" in ...
The 6th Day: Adam Gibson / Adam Gibson Clone Also producer 2002 Collateral Damage: Captain Gordon "Gordy" Brewer 2003 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: The Terminator: The Rundown: Bar Patron Uncredited cameo [7] 2004 Around the World in 80 Days: Prince Hapi Cameo 2005 The Kid & I: Himself 2010 The Expendables: Trent "Trench" Mauser ...
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]