The series opens with Fogg at the stuffy Reform Club, where he spends his days reading newspapers. At stake is a wager of 20,000 British pounds: $3 million in today’s U.S. En route, they take all means of transport, while meeting increasingly dangerous obstacles. Shot on location on two continents, the Masterpiece series follows the trio’s expedition as they head east from London on October 5, 1872, intending to make it back to the Reform Club reading room by one o’clock on Christmas Eve. (Bly’s trip is documented in fascinating detail by the Heinz History Center in her hometown of Pittsburgh.) The eight-part drama draws on the author’s personal history of disappointment in love, and also gives a nod to New York World reporter Nellie Bly, who took a record-breaking around-the-world trip in 1890, inspired by Verne’s plot. Updating Verne’s ever popular tale of an epic road trip, Masterpiece introduces new themes, characters, and stories. L to R: Ibrahim Koma, David Tennant and Leonie Benesch star in Around the World in 80 Days.įrench actor Ibrahim Koma ( As Far as I Can Walk) and German actress Leonie Benesch ( Babylon Berlin, The Crown) costar as Fogg’s intrepid traveling companions.
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