According to Deadline, Prime Video has ordered a Butterfly series based on the graphic novel of the same name. The graphic novel is published by BOOM! Studios, which will be producing the series with Prime Video and Daniel Dae Kim’s (Always Be My Maybe, Raya and the Last Dragon) 3AD. The comic is created by Arash Amel (A Private War, Rise).
Kim will star in the series adaptation, which will be six episodes and is created by showrunner Ken Woodruff (The Mentalist, The Enemy Within) along with novelist Steph Cha (Follow Her Home, Your House Will Pay).
Production on Butterfly will start after DGA, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA make new agreements with AMPTP.
Butterfly was one of more than a dozen mini-writers rooms that Amazon Studios commissioned in the last couple of months.
Prime Video also recently picked up a series adaptation for Criminal, the graphic novels created by Ed Brubaker (Cruel Summer, Bad Weekend).
The Butterfly graphic novel series is written by Amel and Marguerite Bennett (Animosity, M.O.M.: Mother of Madness). It takes place in the treacherous world of global espionage and is a character-driven spy thriller that explores complex family dynamics. It follows David Jung, played by Kim, an unpredictable, enigmatic former U.S. intelligence operative who lives in South Korea. His life is blown up when the consequences of a difficult decision from his past comes back to haunt him. He finds himself pursued by a sociopathic, deadly young agent assigned to kill him, Rebecca.
The series is developed by Kim’s production company, 3AD, under their first-look deal with Amazon Studios. It is executive produced by Cha, Amel, Kim, Woodruff, Stephen Christy (The Empty Man, Just Beyond), Adam Yoelin (Solace, Two Night Stand), Ross Richie (2 Guns, The Empty Man), and John Cheng (Horrible Bosses, Mirror Mirror).