Prime Video Orders ‘Butterfly’ Graphic Novel Adaptation Starring Daniel Dae Kim

Prime Video Orders ‘Butterfly’ Comicbook Adaptation Starring Daniel Dae Kim

Prime Video has given a series order to ‘Butterfly‘, a character-driven spy thriller, based on the BOOM! Studios graphic novel, which stars Daniel Dae Kim, who also exec produces the drama.

‘Butterfly’ follows David Jung (Kim), an enigmatic, highly unpredictable former US intelligence operative living in South Korea. Jung’s 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.

The series will be produced by Kim’s production company, 3AD, alongside BOOM! Studios. 3AD also produces ‘The Good Doctor’, which Kim brought to the USA based on the South Korean series of the same name. Along with working in a production role, Kim appeared on screen in ‘The Good Doctor’, the recently concluded medical drama ‘New Amsterdam’, and Nat Geo series ‘The Hot Zone’. More recently he’s been starring as “Fire Lord Ozai” in Netflix’s upcoming live-action version of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’. This marks the first lead role for the actor in a drama series, who is probably best known for his roles as Jin-Soo Kwon in ‘Lost’, and as Chin Ho Kelly in ‘Hawaii Five-0’.

Ken Woodruff (The Mentalist, Gotham, La Brea) will serve as showrunner and is co-creator of the adaptation alongside crime fiction novelist, Steph Cha, based on the 2015 graphic novel of the same name created by Arash Amel. Woodruff and Cha exec produce, alongside Kim and John Cheng for 3AD, Amel for The Amel Company, and Stephen Christy & Ross Richie for BOOM! Studios. Adam Yoelin is Co-EP for BOOM! Studios.

The series has been ordered by Prime Video under an overall “first look” deal between 3AD and Amazon Studios. However, it may be a little while off going into production, as they will not be doing anything until a deal is reached on the ongoing strike action between the writer’s guilds (potentially to be joined soon by the actor’s guilds…), and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

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