Kenneth Ross screenwrote "The Day of the Jackal" based on which author's 1971 novel?
The Day of the Jackal (film) The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 Anglo-French political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michel Lonsdale. Based on the 1971 novel "The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
You Only Live Twice (film) You Only Live Twice (1967) is the fifth spy film in the "James Bond" series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first "James Bond" film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story.