![]() David Tennant stars in a 2021 television adaptation, Around the World in 80 Days.Sir Michael Palin partially attempted to recreate the journey for a documentary series: Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin. ![]() Pierce Brosnan starred in the 1989 mini series with Julia Nickson.Around the World with Willy Fog: A Spanish-Japanese animated television adaptation in 1983.Around the World in Eighty Days (1972 TV series): A 1972 Australian cartoon series. ![]() The book follows Phileas's son as he travels around the world by car instead of train, hence the longer time limit. The novel Around the World in 100 days by Gary Blackwood (2010) serves as a sequel to the events in 80 days. He chooses to take his recently hired servant, Jean Passepartout, on his peculiar adventure. It is unknown what happened to the Black Scorpions after Kelvin was exposed and arrested for his crimes.Phileas Fogg bets £20,000 (around £2 million at current) that he is able to travel around the world in eighty days. However, the trio were able to defeat them all (including Fang, who ends up being knocked out by Monique) before boarding on the next ship to England.įinally seeing that she has lost and have been used by Kelvin, a humiliated Fang sends over a telegram to Kelvin at the Royal Academy, angrily telling him that the deal is off and that she and the Black Scorpions are conceding defeat, much to his fury. To that end, Fang and the remaining Black Scorpions head over to New York, where they ambush the trio in a warehouse where the Americans have started building the Statue of Liberty. At that point, Fang agrees to personally deal with the problem herself. Though Kelvin accepted the proposal, he states that he won't have either the power or means to do so if Fogg wins the wager. However, Lau Xing brought in his old friend Wong Fei Hung and the Ten Tigers of Canton to defeat the warriors, forcing them to retreat and never return to Lanzhou again, right before the Jade Buddha is returned to its rightful place.Īs the trio made their way to North America, General Fang proposed a new deal to Kelvin: beneath Lanzhou are untapped jade reserves and that she would hand them over to him if he lends in the arsenal as agreed. As soon as the trio finally reach Lanzhou, Lau Xing confessed of his true identity to Fogg, just as group of Black Scorpion warriors (led by Fang's second-in-command) arrived to capture the trio and steal the Jade Buddha. Around the same time, Kelvin learns of Lau's identity from Inspector Fix and declares the trio to be criminals just to raise the stakes against them. Having caught wind of Lau's secret identity, Fang sends in several of her agents to Paris, France and Agra, India to kill Lau Xing, but he manages to fend them off while helping Fogg and Monique on their journey. As Kelvin fumes over the loss of the jade, General Fang assures to him that she will have the Black Scorpions to steal back the Jade Buddha. Lau Xing (going under the pseudonym Passportout) offers to tag along with Fogg by becoming his new valet in order to return to Lanzhou and bringing a French artist named Monique La Roche. Around the same time, the famed scientist Phileas Fogg wagers a bet against Lord Kelvin, offering to travel the world in 80 days in exchange of becoming the new head of Royal Academy of Science. Though Kelvin gladly accepts the offer, Lau Xing was able to retrieve the Jade Buddha by breaking into the Bank of England where it was stored. However, Fang sends a few of her agents to steal the Buddha and smuggle it into England, where she offers the Jade Buddha to the corrupt Lord Kelvin in exchange of receiving British arsenal in order to take over Lanzhou. It is a Chinese military organization led by the ruthless General Fang.Īccording to Lau Xing, the Black Scorpions were known of their countless failed attempts to invade Lanzhou, due to a certain protection by a Jade Buddha resided in the village. ![]() The Black Scorpions is the supporting antagonistic faction in the 2004 live action film Around the World in 80 Days.
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