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On Thursday, Dec. 12, the final two episodes of The Day of the Jackal season 1 premiered, giving fans some long-awaited answers about whether the elusive assassin was able to take out his target ...
The Day of the Jackal wrapped up an explosive freshman season with a nail-bitingly tense finale this week — and it set the stage for Season 2, too. The finale picks up at full speed, with ...
A poster for the 1973 film, also called The Day of the Jackal, based on Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel of the same name. LMPC - Getty Images
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 first series ...
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 ...
The final episode saw Bianca (Lashana Lynch), the MI-6 agent who had been relentlessly chasing the Jackal for weeks, meet her end at the Jackal's hands in his home in Cádiz, Spain.
The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a political thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
The show, starring Eddie Redmayne, has been hailed as among the ‘best of 2024’