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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 Day of the Jackal is a British television series, based on the Frederick Forsyth novel 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 began airing in November 2024.
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 ...
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In The Day of the Jackal novel by Frederick Forsyth, the Jackal, the titular assassin, dies at the end. In the 1973 film adaption, starring Edward Fox as the Jackal, he also dies at the end.
The Day of the Jackal $15.70 at amazon.com Loosely based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel of the same name (which was adapted into a 1973 film starring Edward Fox), The Day of the Jackal is a ...
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.Based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
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