So it’s no surprise when his personal valet walks off the job unwilling to put his life on the line to break a velocity hurdle that contemporaries consider life-endangering.
It’s the late 1800s, and at London’s Royal Academy of Science, Fogg is dismissed as a crazed wacko, an embarrassment to those creating genuine technological advancements.Īdmittedly, Fogg is a bit of a bumbler and an eccentric, and he’s not beyond taking perilous risks to test an invention. In it, Phileas Fogg, an ahead-of-his-time inventor, has figured out a way to break the 50 mph speed barrier, turn off electric lights with a whistle and maneuver on a shoe-based prototype of what would eventually become the inline roller skate. Now it’s getting a 21st century one, à la Jackie Chan.
Jules Verne’s 19th century tale of adventure and invention got a 20th century big screen makeover in 1956.
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