#Around the world in 80 days 2004 movie#

Fogg places a bet to see if it would be possible (as his calculations said) to travel around the world in 80 days. In his blind rage, Fogg says that he's glad the bank was robbed because it is outdated and says that the thief could be in China in little over a month, which interests Lau Xing. Here, Fogg is insulted by other 'brilliant minds', in particular the bombastic Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), who believes that everything worth discovering has already been discovered and there is no need for further progress. After succeeding to do so, and managing to avoid the police, they head to the Royal Academy of Science. To escape from the police, he observes from a window, two police officers searching for him asking an Oriental man in the street for his identification, and says 'Passport.too', he becomes, under the name 'Passepartout' (pronounced Pass-par-too), a valet to Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), a scientist trying to break the 50-mph speed barrier.

A chinese man, Lau Xing (Jackie Chan), robbed and try to escape from the Bank of England.

(To be fair, he has been nominated for a couple of Golden Globes.) Of course, Victor Young's score for the 1956 film was an Oscar winner.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. This is serviceable music in a serviceable movie, but it will do nothing to improve the standing of a composer who, in a quarter century of uninterrupted music writing for the screen, has never once earned an Academy Award nomination. His overture is straight out of the John Williams songbook, and his invention does not improve from there. When Jones and the London Symphony Orchestra finally get the album to themselves, the composer's versatility comes into play, as he follows the protagonists around the globe, offering bits of familiar local music to mix in with the standard movie-music fare. Stewart, 'Everybody All Over the World (Join the Celebration),' and even includes an inexcusable revival of the insufferable Disney copyright 'It's a Small World,' performed by Baha Men. So, he presumably has no trouble with a soundtrack album that begins with a newly written and rather sappy song by ex- Eurythmic David A.

And he has worked for Disney before (The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth). Jones, a South African by birth, has also shown a willingness to share the soundstage with a variety of '80s rock stars, among them Bono and Sting. A look back at his busy career (which has resulted in at least two dozen previous soundtrack albums) includes adventure films, fantasies, dramas, romantic comedies - you name it.

#Around the world in 80 days 2004 movie#

The 55-year-old Jones is a veteran journeyman in the movie scoring business, with 25 years of steady work behind him, and he has cultivated that most hirable of attributes among those of his profession, versatility (the other important talent being an ability to work fast, of course). Typical of the approach to the remake was the hiring of film composer Trevor Jones. In the summer of 2004, Walt Disney Pictures bet an estimated 140 million dollars (including marketing costs) that audiences were ready for another adaptation of Jules Verne's 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days, 48 years after the celebrated 1956 Michael Todd production, with aging kung fu comedian Jackie Chan essaying the role that made Cantinflas a star.