Beauty and the Beast star Luke Evans exchanges his perfectly coiffed hair and frilly neckerchief in this exclusive clip for the Apple TV+ action thriller series, Echo 3. The footage finds Evans putting together a plan after his sister, the brilliant scientist Amber Chesborough, goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border. Check out the new clip from Echo 3 below.
Based on the award-winning series “When Heroes Fly,” created by Omri Givon, and inspired by the eponymous novel by Amir Gutfreund, and created by Academy Award-winner Mark Boal, Echo 3 follows Amber Chesborough (Jessica Ann 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 (Luke Evans), and her husband, Prince (Michiel 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.
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Set in South America with English and Spanish dialogue, the series stars Michiel Huisman (The Age of Adaline, Game of Thrones) as Sgt. Prince Haas, Evans (Dracula Untold, Fast & Furious 6) as Sgt. Alex “Bambi” Chesborough, Jessica Ann Collins (Zero Dark Thirty, Person of Interest) as Amber Chesborough, and Martina Gusmán (Leonera) as “Violeta," a prominent political columnist. The rest of the cast includes Elizabeth Anweis, Fahim Fazli, James Udom, Maria Del Rosario, Alejandro Furth, Juan Pablo Raba, and Bradley Whitford.
Echo 3 Took Three Years to Develop, Creator Mark Boal Has Revealed
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Putting the pieces of Echo 3 together has been no easy feat, with creator Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Detroit) revealing exclusively to MovieWeb’s own Alexander Navarro that the aim was to bring movie quality to the small screen.
“We filmed for nearly a year. And we try to bring movie-quality, movie experience over to TV,” Boal explained. “And as you know, movies take a lot of time in order to have everything just right, so that you get the maximum amount of tension or the maximum amount of action or the maximum amount of emotional release from a scene to do all that. And it’s just time-consuming because there are so many different crops involved. And there are so many different stages to production to make it like a movie.”
Not only will Echo 3 aim to bring audiences some big screen stakes, the series is also intended to shine some light on Latin American. “Echo 3 started as an idea to do a project in Latin America, to do a movie, actually,” he continued. “And then it branched out into this TV show. But it started just with the idea of, ‘What about setting something in Latin America?’ Because I think that it’s a place, in Colombia in particular, that offers so much and is almost ignored, compared to how much time we spend filming things in Europe and talking about Europe or the Middle East where I mean, you know, I don’t know if we need more of all that.”
The first three episodes of Echo 3 premiered last month on Wednesday, November 23, 2022. The rest of the series is set to be released via one new episode weekly, every Friday through to January 13, 2023, on Apple TV+.
