Apple TV+ is giving action fans a look at Echo 3, a new 10-episode thriller from Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Triple Frontier, Zero Dark Thirty). Luke Evans (Dracula Untold, Beauty and the Beast), Michiel Huisman (Treme, The Age of Adaline), and Jessica Ann Collins (Zero Dark Thirty, Clickbait) star in the anticipated thrill ride produced by Keshet Studios, making its global debut with the first three episodes on Wednesday, November 23, 2022. One new episode follows weekly, every Friday through January 13, 2023.
Echo 3 is an action-packed thriller set in South America that follows Amber Chesborough (Collins), a brilliant young scientist who is the emotional heart of a small American family. When Amber goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother, Bambi (Evans), and her husband, Prince (Huisman) – two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts – struggle to find her in a layered personal drama set against the explosive backdrop of a secret war,” says the official description. Echo 3 also stars Martina Gusman as “Violetta,” a prominent political columnist. The series features James Udom, Maria Del Rosario, Alejandro Furth, Juan Pablo Raba, and special guest star Bradley Whitford. Echo 3 is based on the award-winning series “When Heroes Fly,” created by Omri Givon and inspired by the novel by Amir Gutfreund.
In addition to sharing the series premiere date, Apple TV+ posted a gallery of first-look images for the series:
“I’m honoured to collaborate with the team at AppleTV+ who gave me the opportunity to make the series I wanted to make – one that feels big and purposeful and refuses to stay in any lane,” Boal said. “This is a black-ops thriller and tale of international intrigue, set in Colombia, a country I had known only from afar and immediately fell in love with.”
Boal will showrun the series and serve as a director and executive producer alongside Keshet Studios’ Peter Traugott, Jason Horwitch, Omri Givon, Eitan Mansuri, Jonathan Doweck, Mark Sourian, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, and Karni Ziv. Pablo Trapero directed four episodes, including the pilot, and joined Boal as an executive producer.
With films like Zero Dark Thirty, Triple Frontier, and The Hurt Locker to his name, Boal is a proven strategist regarding action thrillers. It will be interesting to see what he achieves with Apple TV+’s episodic format, with an outstanding cast to back him up. Let’s go!
