A British intelligence officer chases an elusive hitman who has her in his rifle crosshairs in the official teaser for the Peacock and Sky cat-and-mouse thriller to debut Nov. 7.

Eddie Redmayne has confirmed what changes are to come in the upcoming Sky series, Day of the Jackal, which is based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth.

There is plenty of evidence of this in the trailer, where the cat-and-mouse chase between the Jackal (Redmayne's codename) and Lynch's Bianca sees them scaling down buildings, donning disguises, going against orders and lying to their loved ones.

Eddie Redmayne has played a doctor-slash-serial killer, a scientist, and now, an infamous assassin. Redmayne leads the latest "The Day of the Jackal" adaptation, with the Peacock series centering on his eponymous hit man.

Peacock has dropped the new trailer for The Day of the Jackal, a TV series based on Frederick Forsyth’s iconic spy novel of the same name. The globe-trotting thriller stars Eddie Redmayne as an unrivalled and highly elusive assassin known only as the Jackal,