Heads of State

Heads of State (2025)

Timing: 1:57 (117 min)

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Release date

2025-06-24

Country

United States, United Kingdom

Production

The Safran Company, Amazon MGM Studios, Potboiler Productions, Big Indie Pictures

Genre

Action, Thriller, Comedy

Budget

$100

Revenue

$0

Website

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DRTHSHS1

Director

Ilya Naishuller

Actors

John Cena, Idris Elba, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Paddy Considine, Carla Gugino, Stephen Root, Jack Quaid, Sarah Niles, Richard Coyle, Aleksandr Kuznetsov
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Scenario

Producer

Peter Safran, John Rickard, Marcus Viscidi, Idris Elba, John Cena, Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec

Operator

Ben Davis

Composer

Steven Price

Artist

Peter Yip

Audition

Sophie Holland, John Papsidera

Editing

Tom Harrison-Read
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• Sam Clarke, played by Idris Elba, goes for a run wearing a baseball cap with the logo of the professional football club "Arsenal". The actor is a passionate fan of this club.
• In one scene, the viewer sees a doorbell and a nameplate with the resident's name – “P. Pogorzhelsky”. This is a reference to Pavel Pogorzhelsky, who was the operator in the director Ilya Naishuller's previous project, "Nobody", a 2021 thriller.
• Jack Quaid enjoyed filming "Heads of State" so much, where he played Marty Comer, that he immediately signed on to star in Dan Berk and Robert Olsen's comedic action film "Novocaine" (2025).
• Initially, the film was conceived as a thriller. When Ilya Naishuller joined the creative team, he decided it would be better to make it a comedic action film.
• It took director Ilya Naishuller five months to create the film's storyboard, including repeatedly redrawing scenes with the attack on the presidential plane.
• When the main characters, played by John Cena and Idris Elba, prepare to jump from the train, the former advises the latter to press his chin to his chest during the jump. This is a reference to Cena's past, as he was once a professional wrestler, and they are specifically taught to press their chin to their chest during falls to avoid injuries.
• In a scene filmed in the style of Wes Anderson, in which Priyanka Chopra Jonas's character moves from a festival in Spain to a safe house, the film's director Ilya Naishuller appeared on screen (he played a Polish-American police officer whose car is taken, and who is himself handcuffed).
• When the presidential plane flips over and oxygen masks hang from the ceiling, the president and prime minister roll along the wall and end up on the ceiling, but the oxygen masks continue to hang as before.