The Day of the Jackal OTT release date Jio Cinema: When to watch this political thriller

The British television drama The Day of the Jackal is all set to be released on OTT soon. The TV series will be released by OTT platform Jio Cinema on November 15. The show is an adaptation of a Frederick Forsyth novel. Starring Eddie Redmayne in the lead role, the series is directed by Brian Kirk. Here's everything about the series releasing soon:?

Plot?

This political drama is all about an assassin who is being known as the Jackal in the show. The show is also about a team of intelligence officers after him.?

Cast and crew

The Day of the Jackal stars Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Ursula Corbero, Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Khalid Abdalla, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O'Neill, and Sule Rimi, among others.?

The show has been produced by Ronan Bennett, who has also handled the screenplay for it. Executive producers behind the series include Gareth Neame, Nigel Marchant, Eddie Redmayne, and Sam Hoyle.?Production companies under whom the show has been made are Sky Studios and Carnival Film & Television. This project for Carnival Films with Sky and Peacock was announced two years ago.

The production of The Day of the Jackal is a reinterpretation of the original, or can say source material, with the storyline given a modern twist, with Redmayne characterising it as "a completely different piece" that has "been reconceived and contemporised with a new target."

The TV series also reveals more about The Jackal as a protagonist, and Redmayne once said that he picked the project because "the idea of getting to spend a proper amount of time with this enigma felt like great material to mine."??