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davywavyWith the news that The Musketeers, a big-budget live-action take on popular 80's cartoon Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, has been picked up for a second series, the BBC has announced it will continue to mine children's teatime cartoons by producing a series based on Round the World with Willy Fogg.
According to a Television Centre spokesman the series, to be titled simply Fogg, will be a "Gritty and modern, 21st-century take on the original, but which will stay true to the source material.
"The BBC hopes to bring the high level of historical accuracy which has characterised The Musketeers to this new production", he added.
"The original Willy Fogg was a dapper Victorian gentleman anthropomorphic lion who bet he could travel round the world in eighty days and, with a group of diverse companions including an Indian cat and some kind of talking Spanish rodent, had a succession of mishaps and scrapes as they tried to succeed. In our new production, Fogg will be a two-fisted steampunk adventurer who flies around in his own airship and who makes a bet that he can have an adventure in every one of eighty different countries. On the journey he meets Rani, who in the original was a Princess saved by Fogg from death, but in our update is a mysterious runaway with a dark past, impressive kung-fu ass-kicking abilities and an agenda of her own.
"This will give our series plenty of location opportunities and hopefully fat international sales".
Questioned on what would happen if the series lasted long enough for Fogg to have an adventure in every one of the eighty countries and win his bet, the speaker just shrugged and said "I guess he'll go double or quits, or something."
When asked if the series would take any inspiration from Jules Verne's original novel, the BBC spokesman looked confused and said "There's a book?"
According to a Television Centre spokesman the series, to be titled simply Fogg, will be a "Gritty and modern, 21st-century take on the original, but which will stay true to the source material.
"The BBC hopes to bring the high level of historical accuracy which has characterised The Musketeers to this new production", he added.
"The original Willy Fogg was a dapper Victorian gentleman anthropomorphic lion who bet he could travel round the world in eighty days and, with a group of diverse companions including an Indian cat and some kind of talking Spanish rodent, had a succession of mishaps and scrapes as they tried to succeed. In our new production, Fogg will be a two-fisted steampunk adventurer who flies around in his own airship and who makes a bet that he can have an adventure in every one of eighty different countries. On the journey he meets Rani, who in the original was a Princess saved by Fogg from death, but in our update is a mysterious runaway with a dark past, impressive kung-fu ass-kicking abilities and an agenda of her own.
"This will give our series plenty of location opportunities and hopefully fat international sales".
Questioned on what would happen if the series lasted long enough for Fogg to have an adventure in every one of the eighty countries and win his bet, the speaker just shrugged and said "I guess he'll go double or quits, or something."
When asked if the series would take any inspiration from Jules Verne's original novel, the BBC spokesman looked confused and said "There's a book?"
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Date: 2014-03-25 03:24 pm (UTC)For which I apologise.
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Date: 2014-03-25 03:48 pm (UTC)I'm thinking Fogg should have a psychic wolf companion, possibly with violet eyes.
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Date: 2014-03-25 03:49 pm (UTC)I see Baftas.
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