The Day of the Jackal (2024)

The Day of the Jackal (2024) - NBC

NBC

Peacock

Series

2024

TVMA

Crime drama

Action

To assassinate Charles de Gaulle, then-president of France, the OAS, a French dissident group, recruited Jackal.

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8.1
Rotten Tomatoes
85%
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Matt Roush

Matt Roush says...

rating: 4.5 stars
4.5 out of 5 stars

A sleek and suspenseful modern take on Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 thriller (filmed previously in 1973 and 1997) about a notorious international assassin, Peacock‘s nail-biting 10-episode version of The Day of the Jackal forgoes a real-life target (in the original, former French President Charles De Gaulle) in favor of fictional ones.

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