The Day of the Jackal - Peacock & Sky Atlantic

Agent Coulson

Starts Novemeber 7th on Peacock and expected to start the same day NOW

A stong supporting cast also attached Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Khalid Abdalla, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, Nick Blood, Sule Rimi, and Florisa Kamara.

A ruthless assassin, the Jackal, (Eddie Redmayne) makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch) who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jR66U3pZHo&ab_channel=Peacock

The Black Oil

Full trailer. Lives up to the description in the OP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shsIx-ZVL0E

JP Liz V1

Redmayne is also an Executive Producer, and Lynch a Co-Executive Producer

It premieres Thursday, 7th November 2024 on Sky Atlantic

jj880

Great first episode. Doesn't give away too much. Really like the pacing and style. Cant wait to see more.

_BAA_RAM_EWE

yesss been waiting for this. I've been rewatching series as nothing was grabbing me.

person of interest has been my daily for awhile..

whomitconcerns

Just got the first 5 on a platform... Watching tonight

Agent Coulson

A few episodes in and it really is excellent.

jj880

Just starting ep 4. Epic finish to ep 3. Gona binge as much as I can tonight. Quality show.

Edit: hooked but can't go any further than episode 5 also. Anyone know when the rest are releasing?

cena

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122814244#Comment_122814244

every Thursday I belive

micar

How true to the book is it?

Agent Coulson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122815880#Comment_122815880

It's not a remake of the book or the movie based on the book.

More like a modern day reimagining of the Jackal character.

Everlong1

Enjoyng this but the bloody awful "moody" soul songs that keep popping up are really annoying me. The scene in the first episode where he's making his escape from the hit and some hideous singer songwriter bilge is playing. Who the f*ck thought that was good choice of music for a tense action scene? It's like they're trying to plug an album or something.

CalamariFritti

Looks not bad, good production value, but dont find Lynchs character very believable or her acting convincing.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122815898#Comment_122815898

maybe have been better to call it ‘ The Jackal…’ and say it was inspired by the original book / film

‘ Day of The Jackal ‘ does just evoke the original.

CalamariFritti

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122819245#Comment_122819245

I suppose the basic parameters are the same. Enigmatic British sniper assassin building up to his mega retirement hit which has a fixed deadline hunted by the efforts of mostly a single officer, like a 1:1 cat & mouse game on a timer.

expectationlost

why would somebody from a loyalist family be involved a a radical leftist group

Agent Coulson

After watching the first 5 episodes I am left wondering who really is the bad guy…..

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The paid assassin or the MI 6 agent who causes the deaths of an innocent girl and her mother and her colleagues.

expectationlost

Ep 2 ridicilous

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3 people to arrest a gunmaker?

expectationlost

so the women's family knows she works for Mi6?

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what job does the jackal family think he has where he can't stay for his sons birthday party?

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122819362#Comment_122819362

PUP and the UVF and the Red Hand Commando (though I don't think the paramilitaries they were aligned with would be radical left, but PUP would be considered so)

extra gravy

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Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122819362#Comment_122819362

Not everyone follows their parents' loyalties.

_BAA_RAM_EWE

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122819145#Comment_122819145

it's not often the music is so bad it takes away from what you're looking at.

it's distractingly bad.

Peter Dragon

I’m not hating it but largely for Redmayne who I really like as an actor. The way he turns can be quite menacing, and he has this spaced look at times that can be a little unsettling; his facial expressions are I find, fascinating.

I’m a huge fan of the movie and did a rewatch in advance of this, it still holds up brilliantly despite being 51 years old now. I can’t help but find myself comparing this to the movie, and it’s just not as good in my opinion.

Lynch’s character isn’t working for me, I just don’t find her credible. I realise I’ll probably be slated for saying this but her casting seems a bit of a DEI choice, not unlike her casting and part in No Time to Die. Speaking of Bond, the theme song and opening credits just scream Bond to me, not sure it’s a good thing to play in that space….some originality would be better.

Not hating the rest of the music as much as others - bar the awful Wicked Game cover.

I’ll stick with it for sure but the set up for the finale isn’t credible already from this far out. I don’t know how to use the spoiler function so I’ll not say much more than that.

CalamariFritti

I feel the exact same and felt almost bad for saying I find Lynch's cast unconvincing and the Bianca character too. (Thats how brainwashed we are at this stage ;), only messing, half messing anyway). But I do. Bianca doesnt work for me at all. Jackal is a bit one dimensional too but again I agree he just has that menacing bit about him and he does that slightly arrogant English private school origin thing too. I'll stick with it too but was hoping for a little better.

odyssey06

I've only watched first 2 episodes, something puzzling me, so I've spoilered the question below.

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The Loyalist's daughter, they took her into custody, she was only a student but died of cardiac arrest and nobody queried that as being unusual? Did I miss something?

lucalux

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She had an underlying heart condition which her family (and presumably her) didn't know about, they said

Everlong1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122825624#Comment_122825624

When I saw the trailer I had the same DEI tokenism concerns about Lynch's character but thankfully that seems to have been the only PC box ticking so far. You'll note that both Lynch and Redmayne's characters are, astonishingly, in traditional heterosexual relationships. In fact there hasn't been any LGBT box ticking at all so far.

CalamariFritti

I dont know about box ticking tbh. Because this is a big topic in the times we live in - and sometimes a controversial one - I guess we're a little more sensitive to it one way or the other. Some people feel it weird when everything is 'traditional' and go looking for lack of diversity and some people go looking for the opposite, the box ticking.

I'd like to think I wouldn't think anything of a character's colour, creed, whatever. A character works or it doesn't. But the fact that when I didnt think Bianca worked I felt like 'uh oh someone may think I just dont like her colour' is a little weird. Maybe that just says more about me than anything. 🤷‍♂️ Strange times.

ejmaztec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826253#Comment_122826253

I don't mind ethnic diversity in modern day dramas, but I think some historical dramas get it completely wrong, and it gives a false impression. Far into the future it might make people from ethnic minorities think that they weren't really persecuted after all, and they'd even been part of the elite in Western countries centuries ago.

Anyhow, I haven't a clue how diverse MI6 is, but the casting people have obviously decided that it is. The MI6 agent in Paris Has Fallen was also a female from an ethnic minority.😛

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826253#Comment_122826253

I genuinely had assumed there was going to be a gay scene between The Jackal and the theatre usher, it certainly looked like it was heading that way. Maybe it still will. The source material (book and film) have The Jackal having “liaisons” with both men and women so it would be a bit strange if they don’t go there in 2024. It’s part of the character - he’s absolutely cold and ruthless and will use anyone (sexual orientation is irrelevant to him) to achieve his goals.

Maybe I'm overthinking this but maybe they haven’t gone there as in both original movie and book The Jackal kills the gay man. Perhaps fears of an outcry or backlash have stopped them doing it? It may still happen of course. Btw, he also kills women, but as another posted stated, strange times indeed.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826253#Comment_122826253

Most of the cinema and tv I watch is foreign, so I’d wager I’m more accustomed to seeing the non-traditional and stereotypical white person in these roles than most.

It’s just become such a trope in modern times to take a white male character and replace it with a woman of colour - some of the memes around this topic are very amusing, Maybe I’m tired of it, but she’s just not working for me. 🤷‍♂️

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826047#Comment_122826047

Jackal has to be one dimensional. I think it’s a bit of a plot mistake to have him married with a child, it’s almost completely unrealistic for someone who operates in the shadows like he does to be involved like that.

In a funny way Redmayne probably does the cold part better than Fox in the original movie, but Fox turns on the charm better when required.

Blue850

The scene testing the gun using the watermelon as target practice is a shot by shot remake of the scene from the movie.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826841#Comment_122826841

Yes, a clear nod to the original. A classic scene.

Everlong1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826841#Comment_122826841

The plot line about the mole in the security services is a good aspect they've kept from the book and movie too, although it was a politician who was sleeping with a terrorist sympathiser and sharing pillow talk in the book. No obvious suspects I can deduce in the series so far.

Everlong1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826404#Comment_122826404

Yeah there's definitely something going on with the theatre usher scenes. It'd be hilarious if the writers were doing contortions about whether or not to have a gay character who gets killed and being afraid of a backlash. Imagine having to factor in all that kind of sh*te when you're developing a series. Sounds like something Ricky Gervais or Larry David could do a good comic satire about.

Everlong1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826434#Comment_122826434

Agree about the married Jackal plot line. Mind you, in real life there's been more bizarre stories of married men successfully leading double lives for years. How many serial killers and rapists have we had now who turned out to be married with kids?

Blue850

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826973#Comment_122826973

The codename Rodin for the target was the surname of the OAS leader in the original film, and in the series his personal car in Spain is an Alfa Spider, an older Alfa Spider was used in the movie to smuggle the gun into France from Italy

odyssey06

I cant imagine an ex Loyalist paramilitary drinking Powers Irish whiskey... maybe Richard Dormer picked that bottle!

At least am pretty sure that was the bottle in episode 5.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122827091#Comment_122827091

Even cases of 'travelling salesmen' types with a weekend family and a different one during the week.

But harder to pull off in a digital age of google and smart phones.

expectationlost

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826434#Comment_122826434

they had to add elements to fill 10 eps…

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122832661#Comment_122832661

The bane of modern TV. It is rare to find a series that hasn't been padded out by a couple of episodes.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122832661#Comment_122832661

I get they had to add stuff……but why not put in another kill to show his skill? The first kill was done really well, why not add another like that? The married bit is just too unrelated for me.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122832695#Comment_122832695

Just on this. I heard on a movie podcast I listen to that once you go over 8 episodes you’re into a different fee structure for a series. It came up as someone asked why the recent Memendez Brothers show was 9 episodes. So basically it’s all for money.

Everlong1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122832476#Comment_122832476

I salute your eye for detail Sir. 😀 I was mildly annoyed at the way they went overboard with the Loyalist murals, pub paraphernalia, tattoos etc. so that we all know THIS IS A LOYALIST PARAMILITARY TYPE PERSON! Although I suppose they have to cater for that international audience who won't be as familiar with the nuances and history of the Troubles.

jj880

Episode 6 out today?

Cant seem to find it anywhere...

laros

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122839851#Comment_122839851

It's up on Now Tv anyway …. so I think it will arrive elsewhere soon …. 😁

expectationlost

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122833255#Comment_122833255

its to contrast with the so called good guy having to leave their family too.

jj880

Bit of a filler episode this week. Hopefully picks up again towards the finale.

muloc

Disappointing overall. First 2/3 episodes were decent.

Been getting more ridiculous since. Saying that I'll probably see it to the end.