(upbeat music) - It's one of those stories that everyone feels they have a handle on.
Around the world, my friends in 80 days.
The clue is in the title, it's a story that has lived down the generations and hopefully people will experience with this telling of the story is what people have always experienced, that sense of journey and adventure and the unknown.
- This way monsieur.
What people are going to like is the melting pot between my character and Fix and Fogg.
- Right.
- The way they deal with life and issues that are going on at that epoch, that we can also see in this epoch today.
- I mean, there's always a question of why you return to these classic texts.
I think our version is modern and contemporary.
- It's 1872, would your readership really suffer a mass coronary if they discovered a woman had written this?
- The most important thing for me was to make it relevant to our world now.
And there's so many countries and people are turning in on themselves, and this felt a great opportunity just to travel and see the world in all its glories and see different cultures.
- I think there's lots of exciting stuff to keep you hooked.
But I think the thing that really brings you back each week is what those characters are going through.
You know, that's drama, isn't it?
(dramatic music)
