Daniel Dae Kim’s ‘Butterfly’ Series Based On Comic Gets Prime Video Premiere Date; First-Look Photos

We’re getting a first look at Butterfly, starring and executive produced by Daniel Dae Kim (Avatar: The Last Airbender), based on Arash Amel’s Boom! Studios’ graphic novel series.

Prime Video announced Thursday that the spy-thriller series will premiere on Wednesday, August 13, with all six episodes. The streamer also released some first-look photos (see above and below).

Kim’s production company, 3AD, developed the series under its first-look deal with Amazon MGM Studios. Kitao Sakurai directed the first two episodes.

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 (Kim), 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 (Hardesty), a deadly, sociopathic young

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