Slimy posh boy Eddie Redmayne is the cunning Jackal in The Day Of The Jackal

No way, NO WAY can Redmayne ever even approach the gorgeous, enigmatic, terrifying, tight little-bodied piece of ass Edward Fox was.

Some things don't need remaking.

I like Redmayne, but he always seems so hyper macho.

Yes. Too butch.

It will be tough to better the 1973 original film version. The 1997 film tried and did not succeed.

I cannot watch even a second of that smug cunt Redmayne. Hard pass!

Temu Andrew Garfield, and I can’t stand him either.

Trailer.

It's getting good reviews.

[quote]Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal is a top-notch thriller, with dazzling action sequences and smart storytelling. It’s a beautifully shot series, too, with the Jackal hopping from Germany to Spain to France in picturesque fashion. (If nothing else, it serves as a handsome travelogue for Europe’s finer locations.) [TV Line]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's on Peacock.

I loved the original movie and don't need dazzling action sequences. I canjust imagine.... The best and most memorable scenes were of the Jackal's dispassionate, methodical preparations and the slow, suspenseful advance of the French police's investigation.

One of my least favourite journalists has written about the show.

If I was clever I'd probably be able to tell if he liked the show or hated the show.

Well I think it would be redundant to make a film remake of the original as it can’t be topped. But I’m all for a mini series which could bring even more depth to the story or take it at a slower pace.

For sure the film is one of the best British films ever made.

Edward Fox was brilliant.

I don't get all the Redmayne hate on DL. He's a good actor and sometimes tackles difficult projects: The Danish Girl, The Theory of Everything, and The Good Nurse.

However, I do have trouble seeing him in a high-octane, action movie. We'll see.

Day of the jackal is hardly a high octane action movie.

This is a tv show for a start.

From Eddie's perspective it's a role he's not taken on before - see Matt Damon in The Bourne Chronicles - and he gets to flesh out an enigmatic character over multiple hours.

He pretty clearly loves the show, R10

Did anyone hear Edward Fox’s Desert Island discs? His accent is so posh it’s camp!

Here you go.

Why don’t we like Eddie Redmayne?

Because try as he might, he wasn't masculine enough to be convincing as "The Danish Girl."

I can’t forgive him for Fantastic Beasts.

He’s hard to look at.

R18 watch this.

Yeah, same for me, R21. His marshmallow coloring and that goofy, ugly mouth are just too distracting.

I've seen some pictures of him, such as from when he was younger, that show why he might have been considered good-looking at one time. But anything other than a posed modeling shot or head shot reveals him to be facially very awkward, almost grotesque.

Film wise he has the Oscar and film BAFTA.

Theatre wise he has the Tony and Olivier

TV wise he doesn't have an Emmy or TV BAFTA

Helen Mirren is safe as the only person to hold the double Triple Acting Crown.

Eddie Redmayne is a bit freakish but that doesn't turn me off a person.

He's a try-hard one-note Actor who looks like a lizard and sounds like a pedophile.

I wasn’t aware pedophiles had a particular sound.

Seeing him disturbs me, it's like a clown or a drag queen feeling, or a creepy doll.

Mary!

bet he has phimosis and a purple penis head!

Everything seems pretty standard issue and fuckable, to my eye.

First episode very good, reminiscent of Bourne.

The first 5 episodes are available with weekly releases up to the finale on December 12th

here ya go, r27

Does one have to pay for Peacock to watch this?

r34 Yes, Dustin. Do you have Xfinity? I was able to add Netflix, Apple, and Peacock for $15 total, but with commercials.

I’ve watched the first two episodes. It’s different enough from the movie that I don’t compare the two. It’s ok so far, nothing brilliant but it’s interesting enough to keep watching considering the current alternative of real life.

Thanks R35. I already have Netflix from...T-Mobile, I think. It will show up on NBC, Netflix, Hulu, or Prime soon enough.

Obligatory FAG!

straight fem boys are confusing.

There was one shot in episode 2 and Eddie was a dead ringer for Jane Lynch.

I like Eddie. I like him SO much, he is my choice for People's 2024 Sexiest Man. If not him, then Tim O'Tay.

Benedict Cumberbatch would've been better suited for this role. He'd be more believable as a cold blooded assassin than Eddie Redmayne.

Just binged the first five episodes and don't think I'll be finishing the season. The writing is just extremely basic when it comes to spy shows, and that clichéd cliffhanger at the end of the fifth episode made me roll my eyes. The MI6 agent knows too much, too fast – I prefer watching regular people be competent at their work and cooperating with each other, rather than savants killing it on their own (and she's a cunt to her coworker, too). Just absolutely nothing you haven't seen before, and you might even be offended if you're into Slow Horses as I am.

I hate to be a bitch, but both of the leads are unpleasant to look at for me. All has been said about Redmayne already, but I don't know why Lynch was cast, she has exactly two facial expressions. There was a scene at the end of the second episode where the camera lingers on her for a while to show she's distraught and there's just... nothing there? It's the same face she always has? Decent actress, but not good enough to be a lead in something like this. And her daughter looks about the same age as her, it's so confusing.

The constant "London, ENGLAND" card every single time we go back to London almost made me tear my hair out. You know you can trust your audience and skip it once they've seen the London skyline, right? And you can skip the country part too, I'm sure people know in which countries NYC and Budapest are located.

Oh, and the soundtrack is fucking atrocious. Like your dad trying to be cool, just painful.

Lynch isn't a good actress, I agree. Olivia Colman would've been a good choice.

[quote] but I don't know why Lynch was cast,

The second lead had to be black and female. That's how it is now. Two white male leads and the whole fucking world would end.

This is yet another 10 part series that could've been done in a 2 hour movie.

[quote]The second lead had to be black and female. That's how it is now. Two white male leads and the whole fucking world would end.

Oh fuck off. She's already been in a Marvel movie and was great in No Time To Die as the new 007.

The thought of Olivia Colman running around with a semi automatic weapon is hilarious.

She did it in The Night Manager

I really could do without the bloody cookie cutter family drama rubbish - for both of them - that we've seen a million times already. So unoriginal, especially Bianca’s situation with the moody daughter and exasperated but caring husband. I get that they need to pad out 10 eps, but then why not cut this crap and make 6 really great eps instead? Imagine Bourne with family drama dogshit shoehorned in? It’s irritating dull filler.

I know Lashana Lynch is the current hot diversity pick but she is terrible. She takes me out of it so hard. I feel like they tried to replicate Naomi Harris as Moneypenny in 007 who was so believable and brilliant. But I literally can not buy that this girl is MI6’s lead sniper weapons expert. Why couldn’t they have just hired someone good.

I've enjoyed it a lot but honestly in episode 5 how did it get dark so quickly and is drone surveillance not a thing in this universe?

I've seen 5 episodes and mostly enjoyed it. I've never had an issue with the liveability or attractiveness of Eddie.

Some plot points are super far-fetched. Major points and minor points. A minor one? Why has the Jackal left his home office completely unconvincingly set-decorated with nothing whatsoever in his desk? I'm too lazy to go back but also, didn't he have a safe house elsewhere where he kept all his stuff? Why is it all again in his home "safe room"? Maybe I am mistaken on that point.

Minor spoiler: When he shot the truck driver and cop, I realised just how extreme his psychopathy is. He's not just a OCD genius hit man with ordinary psychopathy.

Yes, why did he have the secret room in his own house? It was only a matter of time before his nosy wife and her stupid family found it. He has a ton of money, he could've had another house or apartment somewhere to hide all that stuff that his family wouldn't have known about.

Is he going to kill the blond Estonian? Set him up as some kind of decoy? Or is he a downlow COCKSUCKER!?

SPOILER: In the late 90s movie Bruce Willis picked up a homosexual for presumed intercourse and then killed him to use his apartment. I expected that to happen but we got The Twist.

The Afghanistan flashbacks were annoying. I hope it doesn't go down the road of "Western military intervention made him a hit man".

R54 what movie is that?

Well Jackal could still fuck the Estonian and kill him afterward. Otherwise this is a farfetched plot twist.

I seem to remember reading that psychopaths can be bisexual.

[quote] Is he going to kill the blond Estonian?

Who plays him?

Is this the actor? He's danish. Playing the estonian character Rasmus?

Thank you, R57.

[quote] [R54] what movie is that?

The Jackal starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and Sidney Poitier.

In the movie the Jackal is hired to kill Hillary Clinton.

Stephen Spinella played the gay hook up in the Bruce Willis film.

Yes I think that's what we will see in the next expisode but its interesting he fucks him first. Who knows, maybe he kills him pretty fast after the kissing starts.

By the way Andreas Jessen is 35 and can change his looks radically from pretty and sweet to skeevy and creepy. I'll have to try to watch one of his other movies or tv.

The part of the story that throws me off is the nosey Spanish wife and her leech family. They seem like a hugely unpredictable risk to have for someone as meticulous like the Jackal. It’s incongruous with his character and obviously an Achilles’ heel.

Likely he’ll be as boring in screen as he always is

Well the new episode had some nice surprises. And that final scene...

😭

Shut it, R64. Most of us haven't seen it yet!

I've been thoroughly impressed with the show thus far, and unlike our predictably uptight cunts who hate literally everything, most critics are raving about the show. (And R8? It's a co-production with Sky. Despite filming most of it in Croatia, it's still Peacock's priciest show to date.) To be fair, I haven't read the book or watched either of the prior movies based on it, but I knew going in that it was intended to be a continuing series set in the present day, so I knew there wouldn't be any assassination of Charles de Gaulle as in the original. (That plus the show dispenses with the "European world leader" bit in its first 10 minutes.)

R43, your cunty comments are contradictory:

[quote]Just absolutely nothing you haven't seen before, and you might even be offended if you're into Slow Horses as I am.

[quote]I hate to be a bitch, but both of the leads are unpleasant to look at for me.

I don't mind being a bitch, but these back-to-back sentences do not add up. You're either delusional or just a bigot if you find Eddie Redmayne & Lashana Lynch "unpleasant" but have no problem with Jackson Lamb on "Slow Horses," intentionally one of the grossest characters in modern TV history. (But concurred that it's the better of the TV shows, and unlike this one at least has a sense of humor.)

[quote]Shut it, [R64]. Most of us haven't seen it yet!

Oh Mary, only basic bitches go on line and read about a tv show before they've seen the latest episode.

[quote]Some plot points are super far-fetched. Major points and minor points. A minor one? Why has the Jackal left his home office completely unconvincingly set-decorated with nothing whatsoever in his desk? I'm too lazy to go back but also, didn't he have a safe house elsewhere where he kept all his stuff? Why is it all again in his home "safe room"? Maybe I am mistaken on that point.

R51, buying the premise for this entire show requires accepting the impossible, namely that a sniper can successfully assassinate someone – via a direct hit to the middle of the forehead – at a distance of over 3,800 meters. (And with only one shot.) Or that it's possible to build a rifle with that type of range, period, let alone one without a solid barrel.

Still, I agree that it's both odd and contrived that the writers would have his "secret lair" hidden inside a new-build house. Cadiz isn't exactly a remote area, so I see no reason why it was in any way necessary to set it up inside his own house (and in his own closet, no less). The Jackal seems like a minimalist, so I didn't think it was odd that his desk drawers were empty, but OTOH that also seemed like a plot contrivance: after discovering literally nothing in his desk, that's when Nuria and her brothers started getting suspicious about the *lack* of personal effects in it (and then found his secret hideaway).

Just as curiously, the Jackal obviously anticipated the possibility, given that he had the entire closet & hidden room covered with cameras, and knew immediately when they'd discovered it (thus prompting his pivot to "working in corporate espionage" to explain his disguises). Left unexplained is the Batman Clause: how the fuck did he manage to build a secret hideaway with literally no one figuring it out at some point? (meaning the builders) I know they cover the topic of whether anyone in their "game" can successfully have a family alongside a secret life, but still. (Plus he did so in his wife's native country, and presumably with her as a Cadiz native? Seriously?)

Also, they seem to be writing the Jackal as at least *human*, as opposed to a one-note, sociopathic killing machine. He's shown screwing up repeatedly (being spotted by his wife before leaving town was a flat-out amateur move), and also acting in ways out of character versus the original versions: returning to Munich solely to kill the son of the chancellor who stiffed him on his fee was hugely reckless. And they're doing the same for Bianca: she's a truly terrible mother who nearly tortures a man in her daughter's bedroom – after being careless enough to let them figure out her location in the first place – who becomes excessively obsessed with catching the man who made an impossible assassination shot. (I'm unclear why a show starring British actors, and set in large part in the UK, Spain & Germany, takes excursions to both Estonia and Belarus.)

OTOH it's DEFINITELY better than any of the "meet cute with an insanely hot female agent and the dimwitted himbo assigned to be her love interest" shows & movies: "Ghosted," "The Union," "Heart of Stone," etc.

[quote]Well the new episode had some nice surprises. And that final scene...

I honestly didn't think they'd do more than flirting, given that this Jackal's supposedly a happily married man! At least it's not obvious homophobia like the originals.

I love Eddie but he hates me at the moment cause I left Cabaret at intermission on Broadway even when he called me out from the the audience and crouched next to me before his entrance. To be honest, I thought it was shite. He'll get over it. Told him I had to poo.

The one and only Jackal, Edward Fox.

Oh, Rasmus. If only you had forgotten all about "Peter"

I like how he took pills so he wouldn't have to take a shit while hiding in the rafters for two days. We did see that he pissed, though. He filled a couple water bottles.