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Coogan puts Alan Partridge on hold for lead role in Hollywood remake of Jules Verne's classic
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20030213
Author:Louise Jury
THE COMEDIAN Steve Coogan is to star as the Victorian adventurer Phileas Fogg in a $100m Hollywood remake of the classic comedy Around the World in 80 Days.
The actor Jackie Chan will appear as his sidekick, Passepartout, in the new version of the Jules Verne story, which will start filming in Germany and Thailand next month.
The original 1956 Oscar-winning film, which has become a popular staple of afternoon television schedules, featured David Niven as Fogg, along with Sir John Gielgud, Noel Coward and a young Shirley MacLaine, painted to play an Indian princess rescued from her husband's ...
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