Michiel Huisman (“The Flight Attendant”) has been tapped to star alongside Luke Evans in Apple’s Echo 3 action-thriller drama series from Oscar winner Mark Boal (“The Hurt Locker”), Apple Studios and Keshet Studios, reports Deadline.
Here’s how the series is described:
Echo 3 is set in South America and follows Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, who is the emotional center of a small American family. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband 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. Evans will play the role of Bambi, Amber’s brother.
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President Joe Biden spoke with United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed yesterday. The White House said Biden “underlined the strategic importance of the normalization of relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel,” noting his “full support for strengthening and expanding these arrangements.”
Jared Kushner is launching an organization called the “Abraham Accords Institute of Peace,” aimed at deepening ties between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, together with Avi Berkowitz, Haim Saban, UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, Bahrani Ambassador Abdulla Al-Khalifa, and Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi. Rob Greenway, formerly a top Middle East advisor to President Donald Trump, will serve as executive director.
Echo 3. The series comes from writer Mark Boal (
The Hurt Locker) and is based on the Israeli hit series
When Heroes Fly and the novel of the same name by Amir Gutfreund.
Echo 3 is set in South America follows “Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, who is the emotional center of a small American family. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband 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.”
Evans will play the role of Bambi, Amber’s brother.
The Apple TV+ action thriller series "Echo 3" will star Luke Evans, best known for films such as "Fast & Furious 6," and British true crime mini-series "The Pembrokeshire Murders."
Fast & Furious star Luke Evans to headline Echo 3 thriller for Apple The Apple TV+ action thriller series Echo 3 will star Luke Evans, best known for films such as Fast & Furious 6, and British true crime mini-series The Pembrokeshire Murders.
Luke Evans in poster artwork for The Pembrokeshire Murders (source: Britbox)
The first casting has been revealed for the forthcoming 10-episode thriller series, Echo 3, on Apple TV+. Following Apple s straight-to-series order, production companies Apple Studios and Keshet Studios have signed Luke Evans to star.
According to
Deadline, Evans is to play Bambi, the brother of Amber Chesborough, a scientist who goes missing. Together with her husband, Bambi searches for Chesborough against the backdrop of a secret war.