Meanwhile, the 1997 movie The Jackal starring Bruce Willis bears almost no resemblance to the source novel. Willis plays an unnamed assassin paid by Russian mobsters to eliminate the First Lady of ...

That’s just the way it is. Besides, it’s been remade before, loosely and poorly, as the Richard Gere/Bruce Willis film The Jackal (Forsyth and Zinneman went to court to prevent the producers ...