Daniel Dae Kim, best known for his roles in Hawaii Five-0 and Lost, is set to star as well as executive produce a new series that is in development at Amazon entitled Butterfly, via Variety. The series is based off the graphic novel of the same name which was published in 2015 by authors Arash Amel (Rise) and Marguerite Bennet (Animosity).

Ken Woodruff (The Mentalist) will serve as the co-creator as well as an executive producer on the show alongside Korean-American novelist Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay. Kim will executive produce under the television production 3AD that he established in 2013. The company is best known for its show The Good Doctor ,which Kim has appeared on multiple times, and it will produce Butterfly in collaboration with Amazon Studios.

Butterfly is best described as a spy thriller. The official logline of the series details it to center on the character David Jung, who will be played by Kim. The character David Jung is “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”, according to Variety. This show is planned to film in South Korea and may feature both Korean and English dialogue.

Daniel Dae Kim appeared on the show Hawaii Five-0 for the first seven seasons as a main character. He and his co-star Grace Park (Hawaii Five-0, A Million Little Things) did not return for the eighth season of the show because they were unable to reach pay equality deals with CBS Television Studios.

Butterfly will be Kim’s first lead role in a multi-season scripted series since Hawaii Five-0 if it ultimately gets produced.