Amazon Prime Video has launched the primary set of pictures and premiere date for its new spy-thriller sequence Butterfly, which adapts the 2015 graphic novel of the identical identify by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett.
The sequence stars Daniel Dae Kim (TV favourite from Misplaced, Hawaii 5-O, and The Good Physician) within the lead as David Jung, a former U.S. intelligence operative who instantly finds himself because the prime goal.
So what’s there to find out about Butterfly? Right here’s a glance?
When does Butterfly premiere?
The streaming sequence premieres in full on Wednesday, August 13, on Amazon Prime Video. The sequence consists of six episodes.
Who stars in Butterfly?
The sequence options Daniel Dae Kim within the lead as David Jung, and the forged additionally consists of Reina Hardesty as Rebecca, together with Piper Perabo, Louis Landau, Kim Ji-hoon, Park Hae-soo, Kim Tae-hee, Charles Parnell, Sean Dulake, and Nayoon Kim, with Sung Dong-il and Lee Il-hwa showing in visitor roles. The sequence is co-created by Ken Woodruff, who’s additionally the showrunner, as novelist Steph Cha.
What’s Butterfly about?
The official description for Butterfly from Prime Video reads, “Butterfly is a character-driven spy thriller that explores advanced household dynamics inside the treacherous world of worldwide espionage. It’s centered on David Jung (Kim), an enigmatic, extremely unpredictable former U.S. intelligence operative residing in South Korea, whose life is blown to items when the implications of an inconceivable determination from his previous come again to hang-out him, and he finds himself pursued by Rebecca (Hardesty), a lethal, sociopathic younger agent assigned to kill him, and Caddis, the sinister spy group she works for.”
The outline for the e-book can also be useful for context. It reads, “Butterfly is considered one of Venture Delta’s deep cowl brokers, no start certificates, no social safety quantity, an entire ghost. When her cowl is blown and she or he is ready up for a homicide she didn’t commit, she is unknowingly led to her father’s doorstep, a person she thought died 20 years in the past. Codenamed Nightingale, her father was as soon as a member of the exact same Venture Delta, a spy within the violent aftermath of the Chilly Conflict, and believes they’re behind her set-up. Educated to belief nothing and nobody, Butterfly should determine whether or not to hunt solutions with the Venture, or imagine the person who betrayed her years in the past.”
In a press release in regards to the sequence, Kim, who can also be an government producer, mentioned of the present, “Butterfly is the belief of a longtime dream to deliver collectively American and Korean storytellers and create a present that bridges two cultures that I really like deeply. I couldn’t be happier with the artistic workforce we’ve assembled, each in entrance of and behind the digital camera, and I’m grateful to Ken Woodruff, BOOM! Studios, 3AD, Amazon, and everybody else who helped deliver it to life.”
Are there pictures of Butterfly?
Sure! Amazon revealed the primary set of pictures for the sequence on June 5. Test them out beneath!