The Day of the Jackal Archives

The rebooted TV series of Frederick Forsyth's seminal assassination thriller The Day of the Jackal has its leading man: Eddie Redmayne, who will also executive produce Veteran screenwriter Ronan Bennett will serve as writer and showrunner, and Game of Thrones veteran Brian Kirk will direct The series will be produced by Carnival Films as for[...]

The Day of the Jackal is a seminal novel that not only launched the career of thriller author and journalist Frederick Forsyth, but also a classic 1973 movie (and a forgettable and mostly forgotten 1997 updated movie starring Bruce Willis) Now it's getting a new TV series from Peacock and the UK-based Sky with veteran[...]