# Trainspotting star Robert Carlyle transforms into JFK assassin killer Jack Ruby for new thriller

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/trainspotting-star-robert-carlyle-transforms-into-jfk-assassin-killer-jack-ruby-for-new-thriller/
- Published: 2026-11-02T18:59:24+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T19:20:01+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16259733/Trainspotting-star-Robert-Carlyle-transforms-JFK-assassin-killer-Jack-Ruby-new-thriller.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Robert Carlyle plays Jack Ruby in *November 1963*.
- The thriller revisits Ruby’s televised killing of Lee Harvey Oswald.
- Its story draws on family accounts and organised-crime allegations.

## Summary

Robert Carlyle will play Jack Ruby in the thriller *November 1963*, which revisits the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of assassinating President John F Kennedy. Ruby shot Oswald in a Dallas police station basement two days after Kennedy’s death, in an incident broadcast live on television.

The film also stars John Travolta, Mandy Patinkin, Dermot Mulroney and Jefferson White as Oswald, and is directed by Roland Joffé. Its screenplay is said to draw on first-hand accounts, including information from relatives of Chicago crime boss Sam Giancana; producer Nicki Celozzi alleges the story concerns organised crime’s role in arranging the assassination, a claim presented as the family’s account. The film is due in the US later this year and in the UK and Ireland early next year.

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