80 days to go around the world... and there are plenty. Phileas Fogg He was a character convinced of the feat that, in a fit of confidence and bravado, he proposed in front of his classmates. a London club for men only. Accompanied by his butler, Passe-partout, and pursued by detective Fix, they decide to cross the world in those 80 days thanks to the advancement of the transport of 1872.
That was the story of Julio Verne. in one of the most read adventure and travel books, replicated and adapted. The adventure in capital letters . So many times later emulated and brought to the screen.
The two versions that most of us remember, probably, will be: the 1956 Oscar film, with David Niven as Fogg, Cantinflas as Passepartout and Shirley MacLaine, of Indian princess; Y Willy Fogg Around the World, that very eighties animated series with a very catchy song (It's 80 days, 80 nothing more...).
They each took their liberties, but none so far, as the new series does. Around the World in 80 Days (premiere of the first two chapters on February 24 on Movistar Plus +).
Three travelers and 80 days ahead.
Although throughout the eight episodes of the first season (there is already a second confirmed), they keep the story in 1872, "The show looks at the customs and expectations of the era through the lens of the 21st century," explained its protagonist David Tennan, a heavyweight of British television for his role in Doctor Who, Broadchurch or Jessica Jones.
Its creators consider the series more “a reimagining” of the original story than a new adaptation. The character of Passepartout (who in Spain was also called Picaporte) interprets it black French actor Ibrahim Koma, as a fugitive of low class but with a lot of world (he speaks French, English, Italian, Russian…). And Detective Fix has been converted in Abigail Fix, a journalist from the Daily Telegraph that she will be in charge of narrating the adventures throughout the world.
To create her character, in fact, they were inspired by the real writer Nellie Bly, who in 1890 followed in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg going around the world and did it in just 72 days.
Abigail Fix, journalist and adventurer.
Other real characters appear in the series, such as Bass-Reeves, a black slave who ended up being the first Marshall; either the cosmopolitan aristocrat Jane Digby.
In each chapter, the leading trio sets foot in a new country. They start in London, they leave by boat since Dover to Paris, where they get a balloon with which land in Italy just in time to jump on a train that will take them to Brindisi to transfer to another ship with which they want to reach Asia... The desert, India, Hong Kong, the Pacific and across the entire United States, To From New York, return to London on Christmas Eve, 80 days and win the bet.
WHERE IT WAS SHOT
A journey full of adventures and misadventures which, of course, could not shoot in each of the places mentioned. they chose South Africa as operations center to shoot all the "hot countries".
That is to say, they shot the scenes of the desert, those of the port of Yemen, also those of the India and even the streets of Hong Kong. and even one Pacific desert island. and the city council Cape Town they turned him into London Reform Club where the story begins and ends.
It looks like India, it's South Africa.
And in Romania, They filmed the scenes that correspond to Europe and USA
The modernization of the series is not only in the introduction of a black character and a woman, but also in the character of the protagonist: “My Fogg is full of insecurities and failures, he's not the hero, the rest are,” as Tennant explains. This new Phileas Fogg faces a adventure from ignorance and cowardice, and the trip that he will make, as are always the best trips, it will be one of introspection, of personal change.
Also, the colonialist vision that still carried the novel by Verne and its protagonists has been happily revised, that helps this new Passepartout or Abigail Fix , Shattering the closed look of the world that an English gentleman like Fogg had, that she had never left the routine and boring privilege of his all-male club.
A new Phileas Fogg.