Sky Atlantic’s The Day Of The Jackal Renewed for Season 2

The Day of the Jackal is one of the most well known and respected British novels of the 20th century.

Based on British author Frederick Forsyth's best-selling 1971 novel of the same name, showrunner Ronan Bennett's Day of the Jackal adaptation puts a modern spin on Forsyth's 1963-set tale of a professional assassin hired to carry out a contract hit on French President Charles de Gaulle. This time around, we meet Redmayne's assassin, codename Jackal, as he prepares to take out divisive far-right politician Manfred Fest, the frontrunner to be the next German chancellor. Following this hit, which he accomplishes by sniper rifle at a distance typically considered to be impossible, the Jackal is drawn into a plot to assassinate tech billionaire-turned-wannabe man of the people Ulle Dag Charles (Khalid Abdalla)—a job that comes with a payout that would allow the Jackal to retire for good. But when his killer activities attract the attention of British intelligence agent and guns expert Bianca Pullman (Lashana Lynch), the pair enters into a game of cat and mouse that threatens to tear apart not only their lives, but those of everyone around them.

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