While Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal introduced a new generation to one of the world’s greatest assassins, it’s far from the Jackal’s first onscreen appearance. The story has been tackled a few times ...

If you were a fan of “The Day of the Jackal,” the 1973 political thriller directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel about an elusive assassin, and worried that a television ...

Mallinson: There's no question of Her Majesty's Government ever conceding the fact that this Jackal was an Englishman. So far as one can see, there was a period when an Englishman came under suspicion ...

Eddie Redmayne in "The Day of the Jackal: (Credit: Marcell Piti/Carnival Film & Television Limited) In the 1971 novel “The Day of the Jackal” by Frederick Forsyth and the 1973 film adaptation by Fred ...

The main criticism I’ve had of Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal is the changes they have made to The Jackal (Eddie Redmayne) to make him more sympathetic. These include the sub-plot of his wife, Nuria ...

This season saw a resurgence of sophisticated spy thrillers, including Sky’s adaptation of the 1973 film “The Day of the Jackal,” based on Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel. The adapted series sets ...

Frederick Forsyth, a British author of thrillers who frequently made the bestseller lists, sold 70 million books and saw his novels “The Day of the Jackal,” “The Odessa File” and “The Dogs of War,” ...

Frederick Forsyth, the British novelist behind The Day Of The Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs Of War and several other books that were turned into movies or TV shows, died today in Kent, England, ...

Redmayne, director of photography Christopher Ross, costume designer Natalie Humphries, director and executive producer Brian Kirk, and executive producer Nigel Marchant talk about what they wanted to ...