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‘The Day Of The Jackal’ TV Adaptation Greenlit By Sky & Peacock With ‘Top Boy’ Showrunner Ronan Bennett Attached

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Sky and Peacock are forging a TV adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal with Top Boy showrunner Ronan Bennett attached.

Described as a “contemporary reimagining of the beloved and respected novel,” Universal International Studios label Carnival Films’ adaptation in association with Sky Studios is the first TV rework, following Fred Zinnemann’s BAFTA-winning film 50 years ago.

Production will begin next summer. The Day of the Jackal is one of the most well known and respected British novels of the 20th century.

It follows a professional assassin who is contracted by a French paramilitary dissident to kill French President Charles de Gaulle.

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