Everything We Know So Far About Jackdaw
Jenna Colman had a hit Amazon series last year with Wilderness, a twisting thriller about a woman trying to get revenge on her husband, and is set to appear this year in the new BBC drama The Jetty – and she’s continuing her thriller streak with the new film Jackdaw, arrives this week.
The Hartlepool set movie takes place on a single night, centring on a motocross racer and army veteran returning home to find his old school friend is now a dangerous criminal- and a set of events is set in motion that could destroy his life.
What is Jackdaw about?
Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who co-starred alongside Colman in Wilderness, as well as appearing in Netflix’s The Haunting of series and The Invisible Man, plays Jackdaw’s main character Jack. A retired motocross biker and champion, as well as a hardened army veteran, Jack’s life has taken a turn for the worse in recent years as he heads back home to Hartlepool. Trying to get out of the rut that he’s stuck in, he meets up with a former friend, Silas (Joe Blakemore), who he once knew at school and is now a criminal. Silas offers him a job to pick up a package in the North Sea, and with few other options, Jack accepts. But this decision ends up being a bad one when Silas decides not to uphold his end of the bargain and give him payment. Jack is understandably angry at this double cross and forms a plan to exact revenge and get paid.
What else do we know?
Jenna Colman stars opposite Jack as Bo, a character who we don’t know much about yet, but is a fellow bike rider who assists Bo in his revenge plan, and from the trailer seems to have a history with Jack: “you created this nightmare all by yourself”, she tells him.
Jack is also looking after his young brother, Simon, played by Leon Harrop (Ralph & Katie), and is joined by the comic relief character Craig (This Is England star Thomas Turgoose). Vivienne Acheampong (The Sandman), Rory McCann (Game of Thrones), and Allan Mustafa (People Just Do Nothing) also star.
When is it released?
Jackdaw is set to arrive in UK cinemas on Friday 26th January and premiered at Fantastic Fest to good reviews last year. In the meantime, you can check out the official trailer below:
