When David Tennant stars in something , we pay tending : Doctor Who , Jessica Jones , Good Omens , you name it . The guy is personality plus with a knack for pick big genre roles , and his latest is a wink back to one of the most influential Creator in genre story . Tennant is set to initiate in an eight - part BBC production of Jules Verne ’s Around the World in 80 Days and the first look is here .
Tennant stars as adventurer Phileas Fogg while Ibrahim Koma stars as his valet Passepartout and Leonie Benesch ( The Crown ) as journalist Abigail Fix . The production was halted last twelvemonth due to covid but picked back up in November 2020 — cut through the world , not unlike its character , to shoot in Romania and South Africa . A release date has not yet been set , but with the release of the teaser below , one assumes it might be over the holidays .
A forgetful look to be sure , but you get a stiff sense of the show ’s spirit and epic , globe - trotting scope . “ We wanted Fogg , yes , to be a preposterously upper middle class over - educated Englishman , but I need to give him a kind of wide-eyed gumption of wonder because he ’s never traveled , he ’s never left London or his night club , ” head author Ashley Pharaoh toldDeadline . “ As shortly as I hit on that , I thought it ’s a sexual love missive to the earth , if that is n’t a piece ostentatious . He goes to Paris and India and Hong Kong and Yemen and he ’s so delirious to see a camel , the different colors and cultures . It felt like resetting our family relationship with travel and seeing the world like that . ”
The stars of the new Around the World in 80 Days.Image: BBC
asterisk alongside Tennant , Koma , and Benesch are Jason Watkins ( Dirk Gently ) and Peter Sullivan ( The Borgias ) plus a slew of guest stars . episode are directed by Steve Barron ( the alive - actionTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmovie ) , Brian Kelly ( Torchwood ) , and the tardy , bang-up Charles Beeson , who directed episodes of Person of Interest , Torchwood , Fringe and many others .
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