![]() 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.” It was also expensive, as pandemic-related issues added about £4M in costs, Crawford Collins tells Deadline. ![]() “We are in the early stages of wondering - if this goes well - if we could do it again. It felt like resetting our relationship with traveling and seeing the world like that.” 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.” Pharoah, who is also an executive producer, hints at more Fogg adventures to come. 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. ![]() A Slim Film + Television and Federation co-production for the European Alliance, the series boasts a new spin on Fogg. 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. 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. Alongside those four aforementioned series, all playing out of competition, this year’s most high-profile competition premieres include the Gaumont-produced, Amazon Prime broadcast Cold War thriller “Totems,” a Franco-Spanish-Czech co-production that stars Niels Schneider, Lambert Wilson and Ana Girardot, and “Limbo… Until It’s Over,” the latest series from Argentine hit-makers Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn (“Officila Competition.Įxclusive: Forced to halt production after just three weeks of shooting in South Africa when the Covid pandemic struck back in March 2020, and picking up again in Romania seven months later, Around The World In 80 Days is due to have its world premiere at Canneseries on October 10. Running concurrent to Mipcom before returning to its traditional April berth in 2022, this year’s fourth edition will spotlight nine countries in its ten series long-form competition, though with a limited U.S. ![]() Sky Original’s fifth and final season of “ Gomorrah,” Rtl Group and Beta Film’s German-language “ Sisi,” and Canal Plus’ hip-hop themed “All The Way Up” will - rather fittingly - join the David Tennant-led, Slim Film+Televison/Federation co-produced “ Around the World in 80 Days” for an internationally accented edition of Canneseries, which plays from Oct. ![]()
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