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The Day of the Jackal is a British spy thriller television series, based on the Frederick Forsyth novel and 1973 film of the same name. It stars Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch . It is written and created by Ronan Bennett , produced by Christopher Hall and directed by Brian Kirk , Anthony Philipson, Paul Wilmshurst and Anu Menon .
The series, which has new episodes streaming weekly on Sky and Now TV, is based on Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel of the same name, which has been turned into two films, The Day of the Jackal ...
The 10-episode series is based on the Frederick Forsyth novel, which was adapted twice for the big screen: first for 1973’s The Day of the Jackal, starring Edward Fox, and then more loosely for ...
“The Day of the Jackal” will get a U.S. network debut, as NBC will air the first episode of the Eddie Redmayne drama on Dec. 30 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The series, which premiered on Peacock and Sky ...
As the story opens, the Jackal plans to continue working as an assassin until he has enough money to retire. The money paid him for assassinating two German engineers, thus delaying the development of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Al Zarifa rocket, had been enough to keep him in luxury for several years, but the offer of US$500,000 (about 5 million in 2024 dollars) from the OAS to kill de Gaulle gives ...
He was cast as a boxer in a 1954 episode of Reed Hadley's CBS legal drama, The Public Defender. Also in 1954, Jaeckel portrayed Billy the Kid in an episode of the syndicated Western anthology series , Stories of the Century , with Jim Davis as the fictitious Southwest Railroad detective Matt Clark.
The Jackal received a 24% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Jackal is a relatively simple chase thriller incapable of adding thrills or excitement as the plot chugs along." [13] Metacritic gave the film a score of 36 out of 100 based on 20 reviews. [14]
In the 1973 film adaption, starring Edward Fox as the Jackal, he also dies at the end. But— spoiler alert !—in the season one finale of the 2024 television series, starring Eddie Redmayne as ...