The cold-blooded Jackal (Redmayne) uses disguises and fake passports to carry out his final attack and unleashes a massive police operation across Europe to find him. But the chameleon-like assassin meets his match in Bianca (Lynch) when she refuses to back down in her cat-and-mouse pursuit, even as she leaves a trail of destruction in her wake and her superiors want to call off the chase.
“I will find him. And I will kill him, myself,” Bianca insists at one point in the trailer as she looks to outsmart and take out the Jackal amid gunfire, explosions and car chases – only to land in the cunning killer’s rifle crosshairs.
The Peacock and Sky series is based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth and the award-winning 1973 film adaptation of the same name from Universal Pictures.
Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, Úrsula Corberó, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Khalid Abdalla, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O'Neill, Nick Blood, Sule Rimi and Florisa Kamara complete the ensemble cast of the original series.
Executive producers are Ronan Bennett, Gareth Neame, Nigel Marchant, Sam Hoyle, Sue Naegle, Brian Kirk, Redmayne and Lynch. Produced by Carnival Films, part of Universal International Studios, Comcast's NBCUniversal will handle the series' worldwide television distribution.
The Day of the Jackal premieres in the UK on Sky on Thursday 7 November and on Peacock on Thursday 14 November. The series can be seen on SkyShowtime from Friday 6 December.
Watch the trailer below.
