Espionage

Butterfly – Daegu

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  • Title: Butterfly – Daegu
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While still shell-shocked that her father is alive, Rebecca (Reina Hardesty) leaves with him but keeps the door to Juno (Piper Perabo) open, not yet ready to throw her life away. The most notable aspects of the two episodes involve David (Daniel Dae Kim) and Rebecca struggling, and failing, to establish trust, the pair working together to get around a police checkpoint and later working together to save David’s wife and the young daughter he hadn’t gotten around to telling Rebecca about just yet.

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War 2

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  • Title: War 2
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A direct sequel to 2019’s War, although other films within the shared YRF Spy Universe take place in between, War 2 returns Hrithik Roshan as Major Kabir Dhaliwal who, by all appearances, has been working as a mercenary for hire while only his longtime friend Colonel Luthra (Ashutosh Rana) knows is still putting India first even if it is no longer as an official member of the R&AW. The first thing you notice from the film, in an extended action sequence in the mountains of Japan, is how much sleeker and polished it looks compared to the first film (having more than double the budget than the original War).

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Butterfly – Pilot

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  • Title: Butterfly – Pilot
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Based on the graphic novel of the same name, our story opens with a spy (Daniel Dae Kim) hunting an assassin (Reina Hardesty) in South Korea on the night she kills an American ambassador. The twist? These characters are revealed to be a father and daughter who haven’t seen each other in nine years when Rebecca believed her father was killed. Adding more intrigue to the proceedings is Piper Perabo as Rebecca’s boss Juno, in charge of the private covert organization which David helped found. Revealing its secrets slowly, the first half of the “Pilot” follows David attempt to arrange a meeting following Rebecca’s successful hit and, when that fails, the remainder of the episode involves him setting up a new meeting that unfortunately puts his anonymity at stake.

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The Holcroft Covenant

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  • Title: The Holcroft Covenant
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Adapted from the Robert Ludlum novel, 1985’s The Holcroft Covenant is a convoluted affair starring Michael Caine as the American son of one of Adolf Hitler’s top aides. Noel Holcroft’s birthday triggers a plan his father, and two other Nazi officers, created in the wanning days of World War II. Money put aside in 1945, along with four decades of interest, is to be turned over to Noel and the sons of the other two officers (Anthony Andrews and Michael Lonsdale) to disperse as they please as reparations for WWII.

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3 Days of the Condor

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  • Title: 3 Days of the Condor
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a 70s spy thriller involving a CIA researcher who got in over his head. Adapted from James Grady‘s novel Six Days of the Condor, the film stars Robert Redford as the sole survivor of an attack on a CIA office in New York City. Contacting the CIA in an attempt to come in only results in another attempt on his life. On the run, with no one to trust, Joe Turner has to work out who wants him dead and why.

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