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‘The Day Of The Jackal’ EPs On Bringing Frederick Forsyth’s Novel Into The 21st Century & Swapping Politics For Cat-And-Mouse Entertainment
'The Day Of The Jackal' EPs from Carnival have talked Eddie Redmayne, Frederick Forsyth and making the novel contemporary.
So in the midst of the pandemic, Neame and Marchant decided they would instil two obvious points of difference by making The Day of the Jackal into a 10-episode series and setting it in a 21st century milieu, with no mention of the iconic former French President. To hand the show a contemporaneous edge, Carnival secured the services of Ronan Bennett, the creator of Channel 4 and Netflix’s Top Boy, who “loved the source material as much as we did” and could “inject the DNA of the Jackal into a contemporary drama,” according to Marchant. Jackal was shot all across Europe but is funded by Americans and Marchant said the project “felt very much a part of Carnival’s history in taking a British movie and expanding it to make it global.”
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