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The Day of the Jackal

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• 2024

• Thriller
• Action

• 15

Summary

Thriller about the manhunt for an elusive assassin known only as the Jackal, adapted from Frederick Forsyth's novel and starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch

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Review

David Brown

Eddie Redmayne’s Jackal has much the same box of tricks as Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible movies, in that both use latex disguises, are expert marksmen and can bob and weave their way around European locations with panache. But the Jackal utilises that skillset for ill rather than good, his job seeing him accept big-money online payments in exchange for cleanly executed assassinations. But the hunter is about to become the hunted, thanks to the ballistics knowhow of MI6 agent Bianca (Lashana Lynch), a spy who’s as persistent as the Jackal is coolly detached. Their cat-and-mouse game forms the spine of this stylish updating of Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 bestseller.

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8.1/10

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rolenameDirectorBrian KirkDirectorPaul WilmshurstDirectorAnu MenonDirectorAnthony Philipson

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  The Day of the Jackal season 2 sees major change as key figure exits
  
  The spy thriller will start filming its second season very soon – with a new writer at the helm.

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  Eddie Redmayne reflects on challenge of Day of the Jackal change from original
  
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  Lashana Lynch on The Day of the Jackal and how the spy thriller breaks new ground
  
  Lynch stars as Bianca in the new Sky series, on which she is also a co-executive producer.

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  Eddie Redmayne 'didn't want to mess with something brilliant' in new Day of the Jackal
  
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  Day of the Jackal’s Úrsula Corberó had early doubts about role: "She’s weak"
  
  The former Money Heist star told RadioTimes.com what made her come around.

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  Eddie Redmayne to star in The Day of the Jackal adaptation
  
  The Good Nurse star will lead and executive produce the forthcoming Sky and Peacock original series.

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