Positive, I’ve grown accustomed to the truth that the 2025 TV schedule isn’t going to all of the sudden function any golden goose-egg surprises equivalent to a secretly already produced fourth season of Reacher. Alan Ritchson & Co. are at the moment filming new episodes within the wake of the Neagley spinoff’s manufacturing wrapping, however these gained’t be round for an additional yr or so. That data doesn’t make ready any simpler, however one thing that 100% does assistance is having one other taut motion thriller to look at in its stead.
I had my suspicions that the upcoming spies-and-’splosions collection Butterfly may scratch that itch, due partly to it boasting a star and government producer in Hawaii 5-0 vet Daniel Dae Kim. Additionally, like Reacher, The Boys, and several other different action-packed TV faves in recent times, it’ll be accessible to stream with an Amazon Prime subscription. Now check out Butterfly’s first trailer to see why I’m excited.
Based mostly on the 2015 graphic novel Butterfly — written by Marguerite Bennett & Arash Amel with artwork by Antonio Fuso — the Prime Video collection stars Daniel Dae Kim as David Jung, a former U.S. intelligence operative dwelling a second life in South Korea when his previous comes again to hang-out him. Or maybe to study to like him and get parental recommendation from him.
For all of the years that he was formally believed to be useless within the States, there was a sure somebody who would have been fairly jazzed to know he existed, and David’s life is about to be uncovered in each means attainable when he’s pursued by a younger spy named Rebecca, portrayed by The Flash and It’s What Inside’s Reina Hardesty. She is uncannily simply as unpredictable and off-the-handle as David is, and it’s no coincidence.
That’s proper, Butterfly is as a lot about going through one’s familial regrets and interior demons as it’s about exposing and dismantling the nefarious group that Rebecca works for. (The place your daddy-daughter storyline, Reacher? Wait, no, don’t even reply that.) The 2 actors appear to be they gave it their all for a wide range of stunts and motion sequences.
I really like close-quarters fisticuffs the place somebody’s arm inevitably will get snapped backwards in essentially the most painful vogue, and it looks like this present may knock a number of of these out throughout its run. But in addition on show are some gunfights, some automobile stunts, leaping off of buildings, explosions and…bonding! Probably the most harmful stunt of all.
Heading up the doubtful group searching David down is Piper Perabo, which isn’t the actress one may count on to see on this position. After all, it wasn’t way back when she jumped from combating Beth Dutton on Yellowstone to a Gray’s Anatomy hostage scenario, so I assume it is a pure sufficient evolution for her. I do hope she would not spent many of the film evident at screens and telephones inside an workplace, although.
Developed for TV by Gotham and The Mentalist vet Ken Woodruff and novelist Steph Cha (Your Home Will Pay), Butterfly additionally stars Charles Parnell, Kim Ji-hoon, Park Hae-soo, Kim Tae-hee, Nayoon Kim and Sean Dulake.
Daniel Dae Kim is about to be celebrated across the globe when his Fireplace Lord Ozai is featured in a far larger means for the upcoming Netflix collection Avatar: The Final Airbender Season 2. However he’ll get to kick ass in a very totally different means on this new collection that’s already making me neglect Reacher‘s title. Okay, not likely.
Butterfly will make its debut on Prime Video on Wednesday, August 13.