It was also expensive, as pandemic-related issues added about £4M in costs, Crawford Collins tells Deadline. Taking those three characters and doing a different adventure with them.” Hopefully not under the same conditions, however, which Pharoah recalls as “a really hard shoot.” “We are in the early stages of wondering - if this goes well - if we could do it again. ![]() Pharoah, who is also an executive producer, hints at more Fogg adventures to come. In terms of scoring Tennant for the lead, former Kudos boss Simon Crawford Collins, who runs Slim Film + Television, says, “We wanted somebody who could believably do the action adventure, could play the stiff-upper-lip Englishman, but at the same time you never fall out of love with him and you really want to get under the veneer of that and go, ‘Wow, this is actually a complex man.’ David manages that so brilliantly.” It felt like resetting our relationship with traveling and seeing the world like that.” He goes to Paris and India and Hong Kong and Yemen and he’s so excited to see a camel, the different colors and cultures. As soon as I hit on that, I thought it’s a love letter to the world, if that isn’t a bit pretentious. Life On Mars creator and 80 Days head writer, Ashley Pharoah says, “We wanted Fogg yes to be a preposterously upper middle class over-educated Englishman, but I wanted to give him a sort of childlike sense of wonder because he’s never traveled, he’s never left London or his club. ![]() Joining Tennant in the eight-part adventure are French actor Ibrahim Koma (OSS 177) as Fogg’s irrepressible valet, Passepartout, and Leonie Benesch (The Crown) as determined journalist, Abigail ‘Fix’ Fortescue.Ī Slim Film + Television and Federation co-production for the European Alliance (France Télévisions, ZDF and RAI), the series boasts a new spin on Fogg. An airdate has yet to be set, but is likely around the holidays via such outlets as France Télévisions, PBS/Masterpiece, the BBC, RAI and ZDF. ![]() Star David Tennant, who plays English gentleman-turned-adventurer Phileas Fogg, is expected on the Riviera to unveil the first two episodes of this mega-adaptation of the Jules Verne classic.
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