Catherine Zeta-Jones To Star In Fremantle Thriller Kill Jackie

Fremantle, Steel Springs Pictures and Prime Video have announced revenge thriller series, Kill Jackie (w/t), starring Oscar, BAFTA and Tony Award winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Kill Jackie (w/t), based on the acclaimed novel The Price You Pay by Sunday Times best-selling author Nick Harkaway, writing as Aidan Truhen (Karla's Choice, Tigerman), begins production in March and in an innovative deal spearheaded by Fremantle's Jamie Lynn, and brokered by Rebecca Dundon and Fran Denny, will be available on Prime Video in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Canada. Fremantle will handle sales in all territories bar the US which will be managed by Steel Springs Pictures.

Zeta-Jones plays Jackie Price, who has been living a wealthy, luxurious existence for the last twenty years; travelling the world, selling fine art using sophisticated tax loopholes and, above all, trying to stay anonymous after escaping a dangerous past as an international cocaine dealer. But just as life starts to feel a little boring, it takes a sudden lethal turn when she discovers The Seven Demons, a squad of the world’s most terrifying hitmen, have been hired to kill her. Assuming someone from her past is behind it, Jackie unleashes her old instincts and embarks on a wild, dangerous game plan: to take down The Demons one by one before they kill her. However, she soon realises her own demons are much more terrifying than the ruthless killers on her trail… and her buried secrets ultimately lead her much closer to home, with surprising consequences.

From the creatives behind Killing Eve and Gangs of London, Kill Jackie (w/t) is a thrilling tightrope walk between comedy, drama and downright insanity. A sly character study that asks what happens when you’re forced to act out your darkest impulses in order to survive. But at its heart, it's a grounded, universal story about family: the kind we’re born with and the kind we choose.

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