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Eddie Redmayne To Lead ‘The Day Of The Jackal’ Series For Peacock & Sky

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Eddie Redmayne, fresh from The Good Nurse, is set to play another killer. The Oscar-winning actor will star in The Day of the Jackal series for Peacock and Sky.

He will play The Jackal, a professional assassin hired by a French paramilitary dissident to kill French President Charles de Gaulle in 1962.

The series is based on the Frederick Forsyth novel and 1973 film adaptation from Universal Pictures. However, it has been reimagined as a contemporary story set amidst the current turbulent geo-political landscape and will delve deeper into the chameleon like ‘anti-hero’.

Top Boy creator and writer Ronan Bennett writes and serves as showrunner. Brian Kirk, who has directed episodes of Game of Thrones and Luther, will direct.

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