Viola Davis will star as the gunslinging head of state in Prime Video‘s G20. In the trailer released Wednesday, U.S. President Danielle Sutton heads to the international forum with her family, played by Black-ish stars Anthony Anderson and Marsai Martin, when the leadership conference faces an explosive threat.
In the film, which arrives on Prime Video April 10, the summit comes under siege, and Davis’ Sutton learns she is the number one target. With her family now missing, she must evade and outsmart the attackers, defend her nation, and protect the other world leaders in attendance. Patricia Riggen directed the action-packed thriller, with Noah Miller and Logan Miller writing the screenplay.
“This is Viola Davis as you’ve never seen her — heroically kicking tons of ass in a global thrill ride,” Riggen told The Hollywood Reporter. “With G20, I wanted to make the kind of classic, edge-of-your-seat action film that I’ve always been such a fan of, but one that draws on the high stakes of our modern and technologically advanced world we live in.”
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Beyond the How to Get Away With Murder star, other cast members include Ramón Rodríguez (Will Trent), Douglas Hodge (Joker), Elizabeth Marvel (Lincoln), Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus), Christopher Farrar (Kindred), and Antony Starr (The Boys).
The trailer announcement follows the EGOT winner’s Cecil B. DeMille Award, an honor she received in January at the Golden Globes. As she accepted the award, which recognizes people who have made outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment, she chronicled her childhood in poverty to finding the “magic” of performance.
“They say that the only two people you owe anything to is your six-year-old self and your 80-year-old self. And six-year-old Viola, sometimes I have to rely on to give me perspective of even this moment,” Davis said. “Otherwise, it’s too big for me to imagine only from bedwetting and poverty and despair and wrongness to this. And little Viola is squealing.”