Daniel Dae Kim stars as David Jung in Amazon's new spy action thriller Butterfly, which is based on a 6-issue Boom Studios graphic novel series from writers Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett, alongside artists Antonio Fuso and Stefano Simeone.
Some critics have described the TV Series as Jason Bourne meets George Clooney's The Descendants.
Speaking to Variety, Dae Kim similarly enthuses that Butterfly is not your typical spy thriller.
"For everyone who loves the action genre and the spy genre, they will get their fill,” Kim stated. “So many of these kinds of shows really lack character development or relationships that you care about. What I love about our show is that even if you took away a lot of the action, it holds up as a relationship drama. It’s really an examination of families.”
The series follows a former CIA Operative (Dae Kim) who fakes his own death after a failed mission. He leaves his daughter (Reina Hardesty) in the care of his partner (Piper Perablo, believing her to be trustworthy. However, nine years later, he learns that his partner is now running a covert spy organization and that she's trained his daughter to become its top operative.
On why Jung is returning to save his daughter after nine years, Kim teases, "We’ve all made certain choices in our lives that we thought were right at the time, and through a little bit of experience, age and wisdom, we realized that that choice that we thought was right was actually the complete opposite."
All 6 episodes of Butterfly are now streaming on Prime Video. The graphic novel is also available for purchase on Amazon.
Butterfly is a character-driven spy thriller that explores complex family dynamics within the treacherous world of global espionage. It's centered on David Jung, an enigmatic, highly unpredictable former US intelligence operative living in South Korea, whose life is blown to pieces when the consequences of an impossible decision from his past come back to haunt him, and he finds himself pursued by Rebecca, a deadly, sociopathic young agent assigned to kill him, and Caddis, the sinister spy organization she works for.
Butterfly stars Daniel Dae Kim, Reina Hardesty, Piper Perabo, Louis Landau, and more. The series is directed by 3AD, with the executive producers for Butterfly being Ken Woodruff, Steph Cha, Daniel Dae Kim, John Cheng, Stephen Christy, Ross Richie, and Arash Amel.
Butterfly premieres on August 13 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.