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First look at Catherine Zeta-Jones in Prime Video revenge thriller Kill Jackie
Today we reveal a first look at the highly anticipated revenge thriller series Kill Jackie starring Oscar, BAFTA and Tony Award-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, Wednesday).
The series is 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).
The first look shot reveals Zeta-Jones as Jackie Price, the glamorous art dealer whose lethal past as an international drug smuggler resurfaces when a squad of the world's most terrifying assassins, The Seven Demons, come after her. The image gives audiences their first glimpse of the series' striking style and high-octane world.
Jackie Price 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 drug smuggler. 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 assassins, 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: 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.
Appearing alongside Zeta-Jones is Daniel Ings (The Gentlemen, I Hate Suzie, Lovesick), Sidse Babett Knudsen (Prime Target, Borgen), Óscar Jaenada (Rambo V, Cantinflas), Hattie Hook (Of An Age, Ten Pound Poms), Darci Shaw (A Thousand Blows, This City is Ours), Raff Law (Masters of The Air, Triton), Enzo Cilenti (Black Mirror, The Crown), Christine Adams (Hijack, Malice), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Britannia, Napoleon), Karlis Arnolds Avots (Soviet Jeans, Lovable), Set Sjöstrand (The Wheel of Time, Valhalla), Tadashi Ito (Society of the Snow, The Platform 2), Sebastian Armesto (Gangs of London, A Small Light), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh, The Great), Gavin Spokes (House of The Dragon, Slow Horses), Jonathan Cake (And Just Like That, Camping), Bamshad Abedi-Amin (A Town Called Malice, The Last Kingdom), and Bill Paterson (Fleabag, Criminal Justice).
From the creatives behind Killing Eve and Gangs of London, Kill Jackie 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.
Kill Jackie is an eight-part series co-produced by Fremantle and Steel Springs Pictures and co-created by Conor Keane, Tom Butterworth, Peter Lawson and Damon Thomas. The Executive Producers are Peter Lawson and Jose Augustin Valdes for Steel Springs Pictures, Tom Butterworth, Damon Thomas, Catherine Zeta-Jones with Dante Di Loreto and Jeffrey Levine. The lead Director is Damon Thomas (Killing Eve) with writer and showrunner Tom Butterworth (Gangs of London). Conor Keane co-wrote the TV adaptation and is associate producer. Nick Harkaway serves as executive consultant on the series. José Luis Escolar's Deabru Kalea Filmeak is supervising production in Bizkaia.
Production on Kill Jackie has now wrapped and the series will be available on Prime Video in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Canada in 2026. Fremantle will handle sales in all territories bar the US which will be managed by Steel Springs Pictures.
The book rights deal was handled by the Curtis Brown Media Rights Team on behalf of Patrick Walsh at PEW Literary. Catherine Zeta-Jones is represented by UTA and Ziffren Brittenham LLP. Tom Butterworth is represented by Curtis Brown (Nick Marston and Katie Battcock).
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