It has been announced that Reina Hardesty will star in Butterfly opposite Daniel Dae Kim. Announced in February 2023, Butterfly is being developed by Kim’s 3AD and BOOM! Studios. Butterfly is based on the graphic novel by Arash Amel, Marguerite Bennett, Antonio Fuso, and Stefano Simeone. The dramatic TV series is for Amazon Studios, with Daniel Dae Kim attached to star. Ken Woodruff is co-writing and co-creating the adaptation with acclaimed Korean-American novelist Steph Cha, whose 2019 novel Your House Will Pay won the LA Times Book Award. The series will be Amazon’s first original production to shoot in South Korea. 

Butterfly is a character-driven spy thriller that explores complex family dynamics within the treacherous world of global espionage. It centers on David Jung, 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.