‘The Day of the Jackal’ Turns a Classic Thriller Into a Mid TV Travelogue
Peacock's limited series about a professional assassin and his pursuer benefits from star power — and gets bogged down by the need to fill 10 hours.
How Peacock's The Day of the Jackal Series Updates the Beloved '70s Thriller
Peacock's new 10-episode series puts a modern spin on British author Frederick Forsyth's best-selling 1971 thriller of the ...
How a morally ambiguous assassin and a spy ‘spoke to the moment’ in ‘The Day of the Jackal’
In Peacock's thriller series, Eddie Redmayne is the titular assassin being chased by Bianca, a British intelligence officer ...
Eddie Redmayne and the art of obsession
The Oscar-winning actor with a penchant for transformation plays an exacting assassin in “The Day of the Jackal.” ...
Eddie Redmayne's Prosthetics in ‘The Day of the Jackal' Were So Hot He Was ‘Oozing' Sweat: ‘It's Really a Trial and Error Experience'
Eddie Redmayne is no stranger to prosthetics but the variety of disguises he dons as a stone-cold assassin in "The Day of the ...