Apple Orders Straight-To-Series Remake Of Israeli Drama ‘When Heroes Fly’ From ‘The Hurt Locker’s Mark Boal
Peter White Television EditorThe Hurt Locker writer and producer Mark Boal is adapting Israeli drama When Heroes Fly for Apple.The streamer has handed the series, which will be known as Echo 3, a straight-to-series ten-part order.It will be produced by Keshet Studios and Apple and will be set in South America.The series follows Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, 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.