Fan CastingAround the World in 80 Days (2024)
If Around the World in 80 Days was made 20 years later...
by Jules Verne, Walt Disney Pictures, Walden Media, and Frank Coraci
Story added by legoking516 on February 22, 2020
In 1890, England, a Chinese man, Lau Xing robs the Bank of England. To evade the police, Xing becomes the valet for Phileas Fogg , an inventor, taking the pseudonym Passepartout. Phileas, just before Xing arrived, had been trying to break the 50-mph speed barrier, and after succeeding with the help of Passepartout, they head to the Royal Academy of Science. There, Fogg is insulted by the other "brilliant minds", in particular Lord Kelvin who believes that everything worth discovering has already been discovered. After a debate between the scientists about the bank thief, Phileas is pressured into a bet to see whether he can travel around t...read more
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