A Game Boy Advance video game with the same name, based on the movie, was released a month after the movie.
A Chinese man named Lau Xing robs the Bank of England. To evade the police, he hides in Phileas Fogg's house. When Phileas asks him for his name he responds "Passport...two". Phileas takes his name to be "Passepartout" and takes him on as a valet. Passepartout claims to be French despite having a Chinese accent. Phileas is trying to break the 50-mph speed barrier, and after succeeding with the help of Passepartout, they head to the Royal Academy of Science. There, Fogg is insulted by the other "brilliant minds", in particular William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, who believes that everything worth discovering has already been discovered and there is no need for further progress. Phileas is pressured into a bet to see whether he can travel around the world in 80 days. If he wins he will become Minister of Science in Lord Kelvin's place, if not he will destroy his lab and never invent anything again. Phileas and Passpartout start their journey around the world, taking a carriage and leaving London after a confrontation with Inspector Fix, a corrupt officer hired by the Royal Academy of Science to stop them.