The First Trailer of David Tennant’s Phileas Fogg (vid)
PBS has released the first trailer for the BBC’s new adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days. The 8-episodes serie 2021 will be added to the many productions of the well-known novel including the 1956’s and 2004’s movies with David Niven and Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan respectively and the TV series of 1989 with Pierce Brosnan and Eric Idle.
The intrepid explorer Phileas Fogg will be played by David Tennant (Broadchurch, Des), who has just won best Drama Performance at the National Television Awards. Leonie Benesch (The White Ribbon, The Crown) will play the determined journalist, Abigail ‘Fix’ Fortescueench and Ibrahim Koma (OSS 177) will play the Fogg’s irrepressible valet, Passepartout.
The series will premiere on Oct 10, 2021.
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