Eddie Redmayne is set to lead Peacock and Sky’s adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s classic thriller The Day of the Jackal. The Day of the Jackal will be written by Ronan Bennett (Top Boy), while Game of Thrones‘ season one alumni Brian Kirk is attached to direct. The series will mark Eddie Redmayne’s return to the […]
The Fourth Protocol: So much espionage pedigree, but unfairly forgotten
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at The Fourth Protocol, a surprisingly little known cold war era spy film packed with espionage pedigree… The Cold War era spanned from post Second World War until the beginning of the 90s. There was a perpetual feeling of political unease from America, spanning across Europe, with the looming […]
BBC Studios developing Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth adaptations
Variety is reporting that BBC Studios is working on small screen adaptations of Ken Follett’s World War II novel Jackdaws and Federick Forsyth’s terrorist thriller The Kill List. Jackdaws follows a team of female insurgents in Occupied France in World War II, and was originally developed as a four-part series for the BBC, who ultimately passed […]