Movie
1997
The Assignment is a 1997 spy action thriller film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Aidan Quinn, with Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley. The film, written by Dan Gordon and Sabi H. Shabtai, is set mostly in the late 1980s and deals with a CIA plan to use Quinn's character to masquerade as the Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal.
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There are few examples of fiction and real life influencing each other like the story that started with Frederick Forsythe's novel *The Day of the Jackal*. In that novel, fictional account of the attempted assassination of real life French president, the most memorable character was mysterious, deadly and seemingly unstoppable assassin known only by his nickname The Jackal. Soon, the real life provided character ver…More
