Prime Video adds Squid Game star to upcoming spy thriller series Butterfly
Prime Video’s new Korean spy thriller gains three recurring stars, including one very familiar face
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When you tune in to watchButterfly, Prime Video’s forthcoming spy thriller, you’ll see a very familiar face: Park Hae-Soo, who was so memorable in the first season ofSquid Game, is joining the cast alongside Kim Tae-hee and Nayoon Kim as recurring characters in the six-episode show.
Butterflyis based on the graphic novel of the same name and has the potential to be one of thebest Prime Video seriesif the comic is anything to go by. It follows David Jung (played by Daniel Dae Kim), a former US intelligence operative who – surprise! – is enigmatic, unpredictable and doesn’t always play by the rules.
His life in South Korea is turned upside down when, as the official synopsis puts it, “the consequences of an impossible decision from his past come back to haunt him” and he finds himself being hunted by the sociopathic young agent Rebecca (Reina Hardesty), who is rather keen on killing him.
Star power helps Butterfly soar
AsVarietypoints out, Park Hae-soo is a big star not just fromSquid Game– in which he played Sang Woo – but alsoMoney Heist: Korea, Prison PlaybookandRuthless Operation. And his newly announced co-stars are pretty stellar too: Kim Tae-hee is the star of multiple movies and hit shows including her breakout hit,Stairway to Heaven, while child actor Nayoon Kim has made quite the name for herself from appearances in South Korean dramas, adverts and modelling gigs.
As for the show itself, Prime Video is keeping a lot of the details under wraps but we do know that the show isn’t just about spy vs spy action. It also explores “complex family dynamics”, and the source novel has a noir-ish visual style that’s been compared to artists such as Grant Morrison.
Interestingly the protagonist in the first graphic novel is Rebecca the hunter, not David the hunted, so it’ll be interesting to see whether Reina Hardesty’s role is as fully rounded as she is in the original story. Writing inBroken Frontier, Jason Wilkins describedButterflyas “an excellent diversion from the schlock and spectacle of mainstreamfemmes fatales.” If the show retains the same spirit, this could turn out to be something special.
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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.
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