Eddie Redmayne plays a highly elusive lone assassin in the upcoming Peacock and Sky series “The Day of the Jackal,” which revealed its first teaser during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday night.
The series centers on the titular Jackal (Redmayne), a chameleon-like contract killer “who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee,” as the show’s synopsis states. “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.”
The intense teaser shows Redmayne’s Jackal transforming into several disguises, sniping his targets from rooftops and rappelling off of buildings. “Who exactly is this man?” a woman’s voice says in the teaser, to which Redmayne responds: “You know who I am.”
Redmayne also serves as an executive producer on “The Day of the Jackal,” alongside writer Ronan Bennett and director Brian Kirk. Other executive producers include Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant for Carnival Films, Sam Hoyle for Sky Studios and Sue Naegle. Frederick Forsyth is a consulting producer, and Chris Hall also produces.
Rounding out the cast are Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Khalid Abdalla, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, Nick Blood, Sule Rimi and Florisa Kamara.
“The Day of the Jackal” premieres on Peacock in the U.S. and Sky in the U.K. on Nov. 7.
Watch the full teaser for “The Day of the Jackal” below.