The Jackal (1997), starring Bruce Willis and Richard Gere, featured an IRA terrorist on the track of the “world’s most reclusive assassin”. That’s a very long way removed from the milieu ...

Frederick Forsyth’s classic novel The Day Of The Jackal and the subsequent much-loved 1973 movie starring Edward Fox are set to be given a modern twist in a new Sky and Peacock Original series ...

Compare this to the 1973 adaptation, and Edward Fox's Jackal never spares anyone. In fact, his murder of Collette (Deyfrine Seyrig), who he seduces and then kills, negates the last string of ...

Although the web series version, which has fine performances by Redmayne and Lynch, is engrossing too, the movie achieves its goals with a quarter of the effort. The Day of the Jackal (1973).

“The Day of the Jackal” producer Gareth Neame has admitted he initially balked at making the Eddie Redmayne reboot, which was released last month, because he was such a fan of the 1973 movie ...