A revised version of the character was portrayed by Bruce Willis in the 1997 remake adaptation of the original film, having a divergent storyline and set in the U.S., with a fictional First Lady of the United States as the target of the assassination.

The money paid him for assassinating two German engineers, thus delaying the development of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Al Zarifa rocket, had been enough to keep him in luxury for several years, but the offer of US$500,000 (about 5 million in 2024 dollars) from the OAS to kill de Gaulle gives him the opportunity to retire early.

However, he insists that the OAS commanders in charge of the plot must not disclose the matter to anybody, and suggests they stay somewhere under heavy guard until the assassination is complete.

The French Action Service is able to capture and interrogate Wolenski (in the film, Kowalski), a bodyguard for a plotter and one of the few men who has knowledge of the assassination, if not the actual details.

Roger Frey, the Minister of the Interior of France, convenes a meeting of all the heads of the department of state security, but all the men are at a loss as to how to proceed, until a Commissioner of the Police Judiciare suggests that the first and most important objective is to establish the true identity of the Jackal, which is something that only pure detective work can accomplish.

The Special Branch of England investigate and finds out there was a man named Charles Calthrop who was rumoured to have killed Rafael Trujillo some years ago using a precision sniper rifle.

They find six men named 'Charles Calthrop', with one individual in particular raising some suspicion when it is discovered he has gone on holiday, leaving his passport in his house in the process.

On two occasions when the police get too close, the Jackal hides out in the home of a stranger he has seduced; once with a wealthy woman and again with a gay man he meets in a bar.

He kills the former when she finds the components of his weapon, and the latter after the man watches a news report displaying the Jackal's photograph and describing him as a fugitive murderer.

Finally, on 25 August 1963, Liberation Day, the Jackal poses as a handicapped veteran and tries to shoot de Gaulle with his rifle, which he had hidden inside a stainless steel crutch.

This version of the character differs substantially from the novel and original film: he is an American killer and ex-Special Forces operator with combat experience in El Salvador turned to informant for KGB hired by an Azerbaijani mobster to assassinate the First Lady of the United States as revenge for the death of his brother in a joint FBI-MVD raid, and characterized as a sociopath who takes pleasure in killing (although even that seems to have bored him).

He is pursued by agents of the FBI and the MVD, as well as Declan Mulqueen, a former Irish Republican Army sharpshooter who seeks revenge because the Jackal shot his former lover Isabella Zancona, causing her to miscarry their child.

Initially entering the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as an officer cadet, he leaves and joins the Parachute Regiment as a Private, training at Pirbright and later taking the sniper commander course at Warminster.

He was assigned to the Pathfinder Platoon as their top sniper, and deployed to Northern Ireland, Norway, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Iraq.

He was later assigned to a United Kingdom Special Forces group that carried out a series of covert operations under STRAP 2 clearance assassinating high level Taliban targets in Afghanistan.

After injuring Elias in Munich, the Jackal succeeds in killing Manfred with a record sniper shot when he visits his son in hospital.

In the aftermath of killing Fest (a friend of the Foreign Secretary) and as he plans the new assassination, the Jackal finds himself pursued by a team from the fictitious MI6 Section 303, led by agent and firearms expert Bianca Pullman.