"The Day of the Jackal" season finale

The thriller, starring Eddie Redmayne, will be back for a second season. Shortly after the show premiered on Sky (in the UK) and Peacock (worldwide), it was renewed for a season two.

The British actor, 42, stars as the titular assassin in Peacock's The Day of the Jackal, which came to an explosive ending with a two-episode season finale on Thursday, Dec. 12, and he tells PEOPLE about the "huge amount of work" that went into adapting the beloved Frederick Forsyth novel anew.

The Day of the Jackal season 1 finale is now streaming on Peacock in the United States, capping off an incredible first season of the Sky and Peacock series. The 10-episode first season premiered on Nov. 7 on Sky in the UK before its US premiere on Nov. 14.

The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a political thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.