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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 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 2004 mobile video game Around the World in 80 Days is based on the 2004 film. The 2005 PC video game 80 Days (2005 video game), developed by Frogwares, is based on the novel. [39] The 2014 game of the same name, 80 Days (2014 video game), developed by Inkle, is loosely based on the novel while introducing various science fiction elements.
In the 1957 episode of Mr. Adams and Eve "Taming of the Shrew," David Niven portrays himself as he promotes a movie version of Around the World in 80 Days in which he plays Phileas Fogg, and at one point his balloon disrupts auditions Eve Drake and Howard Adams (Howard Duff) are holding for their movie version of The Taming of the Shrew.
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 ...
Nagagutsu o Haita Neko: Sekai Isshū 80 Nichi Dai Bōken (長靴をはいた猫 世界一周80日大冒険, lit. "Puss in Boots: An Adventure Around the World in 80 Days") [ 2 ] is a 1986 video game based on the third film of The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots that was released exclusively in Japan for the Family Computer .
Around the World in 80 Days is the 1989 book that Michael Palin wrote to accompany the BBC TV program Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin. This trip was intended to follow in the footsteps of the (fictitious) Phileas Fogg in the 1873 Jules Verne book Around the World in Eighty Days. The use of aeroplanes was not allowed, a self ...
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