When Frederick Forsythe wrote “The Day of the Jackal” in the early ’70s, professional assassin tales were a relatively rare thing.

Likewise, when Fred Zinneman made his 1973 benchmark Euro-thriller film of the story of a killer rogue French right wingers hired to kill French President Charles De Gaulle in the early ’60s, the cinema hadn’t been exposed to scores of versions of this sort of stupidly-pricey lone gunman tale.

We’ve had every male star of recent decades — Jason to Bruce to Forest to Liam to Antonio to Cuba to Pierce to Benicio to everybody who played Bourne to Fassbender, and plenty of female ones, from Bridget Fonda to Taraj P. Henson, Saoirse (“Hannah”) to Saldana (“Colombiana”), and even comic tales that paired up Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” uniting the Pitt-Jolies.

So the novelty’s gone, even if the cat-and-mouse classic of the ’70s still stands above the rest.

Now, here’s a third “Jackal” — Edward Fox had the title role in the original, Bruce Willis starred in “The Jackal” remake of ’97 — with Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne pursued by a dogged, crafty cop (Lashana Lynch in the Michael Lonsdale role) in a mad dash to stop the worst from happening.

Eddie’s Jackal drives a later model Alfa Romeo roadster than Fox’s did. Otherwise, the beats look the same for a story set in the present, and it looks as if no expense was spared in the action sequences sampled in the trailer.

Will its rising suspense and compact thriller punch work as a drawn-out series? Nov. 7, we’ll find out if the Intellectual Property still clicks — on Peacock.