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This article is about the movie. For the real-life terrorist, see Ilich Ramírez Sánchez. For the Marvel Comics supervillain, see Jackal (comics).

The Jackal is a 1997 action film starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Diane Venora and Sidney Poitier, directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It is a remake of the 1973 movie The Day Of The Jackal, even though its story has very little in common with the original movie. It was not considered commercial or a critical success. Image File history File links Thejackalposter1. ... Image File history File links Thejackalposter1. ... Image File history File links Thejackalposter2. ... Image File history File links Thejackalposter2. ... Terrorism is the unconventional use of violence for political gain. ... Carlos with fiancée Isabelle Coutant-Peyre Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born October 12, 1949) was a militant, mercenary, professional revolutionary, and playboy; he is better known by the nom de guerre Carlos the Jackal, which may have been given to him by the press after a copy of... It has been suggested that Felicia (pseudonym) be merged into this article or section. ... Doctor Doom, one of the most archetypical supervillains. ... The Jackal (Miles Warren) is a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, and an enemy of Spider-Man. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Movie poster for Die Another Day, the 20th James Bond movie. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... Bruce Willis Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955, Idar-Oberstein, West Germany) is an German-American actor and musician. ... Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ... Diane Venora (born August 10, 1952) is an American stage, television, and film actress. ... Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Day of the Jackal is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth, first published in 1971, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle. ...

Plot

When an American-Russian joint police task force, led by FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (Sidney Poitier) and Russian Major Major Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora), kills the brother of a Russian mobster, the master assassin, called The Jackal (Bruce Willis), is hired to make a retaliatory killing. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... The Russian Mafia, also known as the Organizatsiya, is a name given abroad to groups of organized criminals of various ethnicity which appeared from the Soviet Union after its disintegration. ...

Eventually, the task force discovers the plot and begins hunting the Jackal down. However, they have a problem: they don't have any information about his identity, and are forced to make a deal with a convicted ex-IRA sniper, Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere), who knows the Jackal's face and methods, to find him. The West Cork Flying Column during the War of Independence. ... The traditional definition of a sniper is an infantry soldier especially skilled in field craft and marksmanship, who kills selected enemies from concealment with a rifle at long distances. ...

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Trivia

• Fred Zinnemann, director of the 1973 movie The Day of the Jackal, fought with Universal Studios to change the title of the movie so it wouldn't have the name of the original classic. He was 91 years old at the time.
• Sean Connery, Liam Neeson and Matthew McConaughey were all invited to be in the movie, but they all turned it down.
• Originally, Richard Gere was selected for the Jackal's role, but asked to play Mulqueen instead.
• It's said that, after this movie, Richard Gere and Bruce Willis vowed to never work together again.

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External links

• The Jackal at the Internet Movie Database