When David Tennant stars in one thing, we listen: Doctor Who, Jessica Jones, Good Omens, you identify it. The man is character plus with a knack for choosing nice style roles, and his newest is a wink again to one of the influential creators in style historical past. Tennant is ready to start out in an eight-part BBC manufacturing of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days and the primary look is right here.

Tennant stars as adventurer Phileas Fogg whereas Ibrahim Koma stars as his valet Passepartout and Leonie Benesch (The Crown) as journalist Abigail Fix. The manufacturing was halted final 12 months attributable to covid however picked again up in November 2020—traversing the world, not not like its characters, to shoot in Romania and South Africa. A launch date has not but been set, however with the discharge of the teaser under, one assumes it is perhaps over the vacations.

A brief look to make certain, however you get a robust sense of the present’s tone and epic, globe-trotting scope. “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,” head author Ashley Pharaoh advised Deadline. “As soon as I hit on that, I thought it’s a love letter to the world, if that isn’t a bit pretentious. 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. It felt like resetting our relationship with traveling and seeing the world like that.”

Starring alongsidefacet Tennant, Koma, and Benesch are Jason Watkins (Dirk Gently) and Peter Sullivan (The Borgias) plus a slew of visitor stars. Episodes are directed by Steve Barron (the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film), Brian Kelly (Torchwood), and the late, nice Charles Beeson, who directed episodes of Person of Interest, Torchwood, Fringe and plenty of others.

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