Published in 1971, Frederick Forsyth's best-selling political thriller The Day of the Jackal centers on a nameless assassin who's tasked with killing French president Charles De Gaulle by a far-right terrorist organization. The film adaptation, which was released in 1973, follows the same story but Sky's new take on the source material modernizes the plot, bringing it into the 21st Century and giving 'The Jackal' an entirely different target.
That's not the only way in which it differs from the novel, however. As Eddie Redmayne is quick to point out when GamesRadar+ chats with him about the show, his hitman is much more of a showman than in previous iterations: Edward Fox played him in the '70s, while Bruce Willis took a stab at him in The Jackal (1997).
