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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 £ ...
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 ...
La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog: El Musical was released in 2008 in celebration of the show's 25th anniversary in its home country of Spain. With the original cartoon soundtrack by the De Angelises, the theatrical performance featured live actors Jaume Ortonobas (Fog), Laura Toledo (Romy) and José Troncoso (Rigodon) in make-up and masks to ...
Jules Gabriel Verne (/ v ɜːr n /; [1] [2] French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) [3] was a French novelist, poet and playwright.. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, [3] a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues ...
In a late interview, Verne affirmed that Hetzel's ambitious commission had become the running literary theme of his novel sequence: It is my intention to complete, before my working days are done, a series which shall conclude in story form my whole survey of the world’s surface and the heavens; there are still left corners of the world to which my thoughts have not yet penetrated.
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.
Around the World in 80 Days was produced by Broadway showman Michael Todd, based on a musical by Orson Welles [12] 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 ...
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