Fogg was referenced by Allan Quatermain in the 2003 film adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Fogg was voiced by Simon Callow in the 1999 animated film adaptation of the book.In the 1963 movie The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze, Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe circle the globe with Phileas Fogg III.Fogg was played by David Niven in the 1956 film adaptation of the book.Fogg was played by Conrad Veidt in the 1919 film adaptation of the book.Fogg's adventures continue in Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows and Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Orsra, both by Josh Reynolds, and in "Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming, of Phileas Fogg, World Traveler, or, The Masked Man Meets an English Gentleman" by Win Scott Eckert. In Philip José Farmer's The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973), he is said to be Eridanean, an Earth-born member of the more benevolent of two extraterrestrial factions attempting to control the Earth Fogg is a member of Farmer's Wold Newton family. He is portrayed as a serial saviour of ladies, having over three hundred rescued women accompanying him on his travels, which have lasted well over three years by the time he is introduced. In Albert Robida's Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul (1879), Fogg appears in the narrative having gone on an attempt to travel the world again, this time in 77 days. Although Fogg is quickly exonerated of the crime, the delay caused by his false arrest appears to have cost him the wager. Together, the trio have numerous exciting adventures which come to an abrupt end when he is arrested by Fix immediately upon their arrival back in Britain. While in India, Fogg saves a widowed princess, Aouda, from sati during her husband's funeral and she accompanies Fogg for the rest of his journey after initial plans to take her to an uncle failed as the uncle had moved. Fix spends the first half of the book trying to delay Fogg's journey to keep him in British territory, However, after Fogg reaches America, Fix helps Fogg complete his bet in order to get him back to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, where he will be under British jurisdiction and Fix can arrest him (while still suspicious that Fogg will run off and go into hiding somewhere on the journey). He sets out with his French servant Jean Passepartout to win the wager, unaware that he is being followed by a detective named Fix, who suspects Fogg of having robbed the Bank of England. Fogg makes a wager of £20,000 (£2.4 million in 2022) with members of London's Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days or fewer. Having fired a servant for providing him with shaving water at a slightly incorrect temperature, he hires Jean Passepartout as a new servant. Fictional biography įogg is a man of independent means and is a gentleman who is "exact", as in has a perfect and a routine life right down to the number of steps he walks to the temperature of his shaving water. Inspirations for the character were the American entrepreneur George Francis Train and American writer and adventurer William Perry Fogg. Phileas Fogg ( / ˈ f ɪ l i ə s ˈ f ɒ ɡ/) is the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Phileas Fogg, illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and/or Léon Benett (1873)
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