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FROM JULES VERNE TO JACKIE CHAN
From: Roanoke Times & World News
Date: 20040618
Author:Neil Harvey [email protected] 981-3376
In the mid-1800s, before Thomas Edison was even out of his teens, writer Jules Verne dreamed up stories about trips to the moon and journeys to the center of the Earth. He spun futuristic tales of space ships, submarines, bathyspheres and hot air balloons, and his plots often revolved around technology that hadn't even been invented yet.
Despite his wild imagination, though, Verne never got around to writing about kung fu and kickboxing. Nevertheless, the people behind the latest adaptation of "Around the World in 80 Days" have rearranged Verne's 19th century round-the-world trek into a rowdy ...
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