Exec producers are Crawford Collins for Slim, Lionel Uzan and Pascal Breton for Federation, Winnie Serite for Peu and Susanne Simpson for Masterpiece.Around the World in 80 Days is one of those quintessential adventure stories that everyone has heard of. Steve Barron ( The Durrells) directs with Brian Kelly ( Downton Abbey) and the late Charles Beeson ( The Mentalist).įederation Entertainment handles distribution rights. Guest actors include Lindsay Duncan ( A Discovery Of Witches), Dolly Wells ( Dracula), Richard Wilson ( Merlin), Faical Elkihel ( The Spy), Anthony Flanagan ( The Terror), Gary Beadle ( Patrick Melrose) and Giovanni Scifoni ( DOC – Nelle Tue Mani).Īround The World In 80 Days is adapted by a team of writers led by Pharoah and Caleb Ranson ( Child Of Mine).
DAVID TENNANT AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS SERIES
The difference is that we had a clear vision of what we wanted to say, but just knew we needed a lot of people to help fund it.”Īlso starring as series regulars in 80 Days are Jason Watkins ( Des) and Peter Sullivan ( Poldark). But I think the trouble with that is when you have a project originated just to secure financing then it really shows through. The entire process (apart from the shutdown), “was incredibly stress free… We never had any big disagreements… The specter of Europudding still sort of lives heavily in our minds and we all know those days. It was a wonderful building block and they then brought the Alliance partners on board.” While there are myriad partners on the series, Crawford Collins says development and production were “very straightforward.” France Télévisions “came back saying, ‘We love this and really want to make it and we don’t want to be the secondary broadcaster.’ They wanted to be lead, so immediately put in a sizable amount of money. The series has further been acquired by the BBC in the UK and RTS in Switzerland. Seven West Media has also backed the production and will broadcast in Australia. This year, production was able to move back to South Africa and the result is “very vibrant and cinematic.”Īround The World In 80 Days counts co-production partners Masterpiece in the U.S., Peu Communications in South Africa, and Belgium’s Be-FILMS and RTBF. “In an ideal world we would have carried on filming in South Africa where our sets were, but South Africa was coming out slowly so we did the big shift to Romania,” adds the executive producer. “The first lockdown was a killer, but once we got going again we felt very blessed.” Production in South Africa was originally stopped in March 2020 and picked up again in November in Romania. 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. Spun Gold To "Reimagine" BAFTA Coverage Sky Greenlights World Cup Hat-Trick 'Clarkson's Farm' Season Three Federation Bhutan Doc - Global BriefsĪ Slim Film + Television and Federation co-production for the European Alliance (France Télévisions, ZDF and RAI), the series boasts a new spin on Fogg.
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