24 Hour Travelling People

Casting off the "sports casual" attire of Alan Partridge once and for all, Steve Coogan has confirmed his big screen status by landing the plum role of Phileas Fogg in the mega-budget movie starring Jackie Chan. Letting slip to us only last week at the Empire Awards that he was up for the biggest role of his career, the 24 Hour Party People Coogan remained infuriatingly tight-lipped as to the exact details of the project, commenting only "I'm doing a huge Hollywood movie but I can't say anything about it." But with the publicity shackles now cast off, it can be revealed that he will indeed take the part David Niven embodied in the 1956 Oscar-winning version of the story, with Jackie Chan highkicking his way around the world as Passepartout by his side. From Pauline Calf on the beeb to Phileas Fogg in a $100 million film. Now that's we call a journey.