Catherine Zeta-Jones Fights Back in AMC+ Thriller Kill Jackie
First look: Catherine Zeta-Jones as Jackie Price and Darci Shaw as Gwen in Kill Jackie. Image Courtesy of Unai Mateo/Fremantle and Steel Springs Pictures
What to Know
Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as a former drug smuggler targeted by seven assassins.
The eight-episode revenge thriller will premiere on AMC+ this fall.
Catherine Zeta-Jones trades fine art for a fight to survive in Kill Jackie, an eight-episode revenge thriller coming exclusively to AMC+ this fall. The series follows Jackie Price, a wealthy art dealer whose hidden past as an international drug smuggler returns when a team of assassins known as the Seven Demons is hired to kill her.
Jackie has spent 20 years traveling the world, enjoying an expensive lifestyle and keeping her real identity hidden. Her comfortable life changes when she learns someone from her past wants her dead. Instead of waiting for the killers to find her, she decides to hunt them one at a time.
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First look: Óscar Jaenada as Zigor and Daniel Ings as Sam in Kill Jackie. Image Courtesy of Unai Mateo/Fremantle and Steel Springs Pictures
The cast also includes Daniel Ings (The Gentlemen), who plays Sam, Jackie’s reserved lawyer and longtime crush. Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen), Óscar Jaenada (Rambo: Last Blood), Hattie Hook (Of an Age), Darci Shaw (A Thousand Blows), Raff Law (Masters of the Air), Enzo Cilenti (Black Mirror), Christine Adams (Hijack), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Britannia), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh), Bill Paterson (Fleabag) and Ron Perlman (Hellboy).
Kill Jackie is adapted from The Price You Pay, the novel written by Nick Harkaway under the name Aidan Truhen. Tom Butterworth serves as writer and showrunner, with Conor Keane co-writing the television adaptation. The pair co-created the series with Peter Lawson and lead director Damon Thomas.
Óscar Jaenada as Zigor and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Jackie Price in Kill Jackie. Image courtesy of Unai Mateo/Fremantle and Steel Springs Pictures
The thriller comes from creatives whose previous work includes Killing Eve, Gangs of London and John Wick. Zeta-Jones is also an executive producer on the project, which was co-produced by Fremantle and Steel Springs Pictures.
AMC+ has not announced the exact premiere date or time.
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