Viola Davis stars as a tough, actually decent US President foiling a terrorist plot in the forthcoming Prime Video thriller, G20. Here’s the trailer.
A trailer has emerged for G20, the upcoming film from Amazon Studios. Here’s a quick synopsis that also folds Davis’ turn as an all-action US president into a much wider-legacy of films in the same gung-ho tradition:
US President Danielle Sutton must defend her family, fellow leaders and the world when the G20 summit in Cape Town, South Africa is taken over by terrorists.
‘President vs terrorists’ is by now its own action subgenre. From Harrison Ford’s stoic turn in Wolfgang Petersen’s Air Force One to Gerard Butler protecting Aaron Eckhart in Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Die Hard in the White House’ action film Olympus Has Fallen and, from the same year, Channing Tatum protecting Jamie Foxx in Roland Emmerich’s White House Down.
Now, Viola Davis is throwing her hat into the ring with G20, whose President Sutton will use “her governing and military experience to defend her family, company, and the world” per its IMDb entry. (From the dystopian perspective of 2025, the notion of a heroic, world-saving US President might be the most far-fetched element in the whole plot.)
The Boys’ Antony Starr will play the leader of the terrorists, while The 33 director Patricia Riggen helms the film from a screenplay by Noah and Logan Miller. G20′s production was delayed by the Hollywood strikes; although the production probably could have continued as an independent production, Viola Davis chose to ‘step back’ from shooting out of solidarity. Amazon Studios ultimately purchased the project, which is set for release in April.
Curiously, this isn’t the only genre film set during a summit to appear in recent months. The bizarre horror comedy satire Rumours was set at a posh G7 conference in which its collection of bumbling world leaders were confronted by a zombie apocalypse. It had a cracking cast – Cate Blanchett, Charles Dance, Alicia Vikander – but was such an odd film that it seemed fated to slip below the radar.
G20, meanwhile, looks like a good, old-fashioned action banger if the trailer below is anything to go by. Davis has eschewed the Bruce Willis white vest approach to action movie costuming, instead going for perhaps the most elaborate and ostentatious dress we’ve seen from a president taking down terrorists.
Meanwhile, Antony Starr is rocking a beard so we know that he must be really evil in this outing, even more so than the ruthless version of Superman that he portrays on The Boys.
G20 will stream on Prime Video from the 10th April 2025.
