Stephen hawking movie with eddie redmayne

NEW YORK – Fans of Eddie Redmayne are used to seeing him as the good guy, whether it is compassionate wizard Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts fantasy films ( to ) or scientific genius Stephen Hawking in the biographical drama The Theory Of Everything ().

But the year-old English actor plays against type as a killer-for-hire in The Day Of The Jackal, a spy thriller debuting on the streaming service Max on Jan

Based on Frederick Forsyth’s acclaimed novel of the same name, it follows a lone assassin known as The Jackal (Redmayne) – a master of disguise who takes on different personas as he carries out hits.

But he meets his match in Bianca Pullman (Lashana Lynch), a British intelligence agent determined to track him down even if it means chasing him across Europe.

Redmayne, who won a Best Actor Oscar for The Theory Of Everything, had not done a major television role since , when he starred in the historical drama The Pillars Of The Earth.

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