‘We just couldn’t find our London streets anywhere,’ says director Steve Barron. The capital Bucharest gave the production both locations and studio sets, including a backlot with a readymade New York, and the city’s French-influenced architecture in the Old Town made Episode 1’s extended sequence in Paris relatively easy. Romania’s chief role was to provide Victorian city settings, which included London, Paris, Liverpool and New York. It was built, in true colonial style, from imported Bath stone so it gave the production all the Victorian English atmosphere needed. Tennant fronts the hour-long 8 episode drama that follows an outrageous bet.
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This 1905 construction is now used for exhibitions and concerts rather than official business, but it’s famed as the site where Nelson Mandela gave his first speech after his release in 1990. The first look image of the upcoming series ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ starring David Tennant has been unveiled. For The Reform Club, where Fogg makes his bet, filming took place at the City Hall on Darling Street. Built in 1898 in the Cape-Dutch style, and now a noted winery, it’s situated on Tygerberg hill, giving amazing views of Table Mountain.Īnother of the city’s great colonial buildings was employed for the first scenes of the series. It is only by episode 2 that Phileas seems to regain his original composure, although there seems to also be a backstory concerning Phileas awaiting to burst.For Episode 5’s journey to Hong Kong, street scenes were created back in Cape Town Film Studios, but the garden party at Government House was filmed at De Grendel, a manor house on the northeastern outskirts of the city. Phileas is presented as a fool, not the methodical and reserved gentleman described by Jules Verne. He is rescued by a nun, who promptly asks him to give her money. He is quickly attacked by rioters, largely just children, who steal all his luggage. He will need all the resilience he can muster and the assistance of quick-witted Frenchman, Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma). Phileas Fogg (David Tennant) is inspired to take on an almost impossible wager-to circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Phileas is left all alone by Passepartout and Abigail. Around the World in 80 Days Season 1 (462) 7.1 2022 X-Ray TV-14 London, 1872. Once he arrives in Paris with Passepartout and Miss Abigail, the city is in the midst of a riot. In Around the World in 80 Days, David Tennant stars as Phileas Fogg, a rich layabout in 1872 London who embarks on the titular mission after making a whimsical bet. The episode opens with Phileas receiving a postcard with a single word written: "Coward." It quickly becomes clear that this is what his entourage thinks of him. The series portrays Phileas as quite a pathetic character, especially in its first episode. Vernes classic adventure, Around The World In 80 Days stars multi-award winning actor David Tennant as literatures greatest explorer, Phileas Fogg. Back in Paris, Passepartout reunites with his brother and finds himself embroiled again in the country's politics-the very thing he sought to escape. The series suggests that Passepartout already travelled the world to escape the trauma of losing his father, who was a French revolutionary.
A traumatic and political past has also been added to Passepartout's character.
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