Ellise Shafer 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.
