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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.
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 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 £ ...
80 Days is an interactive fiction game developed and published by Inkle for iOS on July 31, 2014, [1] and Android on December 15, 2014. It was released for Microsoft Windows and OS X on September 29, 2015. [2] It employs branching narrative storytelling, allowing the player to make choices that impact the plot. [3]
The series was also dubbed into Japanese and aired on Japan's TV Asahi in 1987, where it was titled Anime Around the World in 80 Days (アニメ80日間世界一周, Anime Hachijūnichikan Sekai Isshū). A sequel series, Willy Fog 2 (1993), adapts Verne's novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. A ...
Around the World in 80 Days is a side-scrolling action-adventure game. Set in the 19th century, [2] it features pre-rendered sprites, and follows almost the film's storyline and most of its locations. [3] In the game, the player controls Passepartout, a Chinese valet hired by an inventor Phileas Fogg in attempts to circumnavigate the world in ...
The original series was produced in 1983 by Spanish BRB Internacional and Televisión Española with animation by Japanese studio Nippon Animation, based on Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, featuring various anthropomorphic animals with the main protagonists as felines (except Tico) and the main antagonists as canines.
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 ...