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Heads of State is a 2025 action comedy film directed by Ilya Naishuller. It stars Idris Elba as the British Prime Minister and John Cena as the President of the United States, two world leaders who are forced to work together after becoming targets of a foreign adversary. The supporting cast includes Priyanka Chopra, Jack Quaid, Paddy Considine, Stephen Root, and Carla Gugino.
The film was released worldwide on July 2, 2025, by Amazon MGM Studios via Prime Video.
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Plot
A joint team of MI6 agents and CIA officers, led by senior agent Noel Bisset, are in Buñol, Spain, during the La Tomatina festival, chasing Russian arms dealer Viktor Gradov. Bisset's team are ambushed and killed, and Gradov acquires a link to ECHELON, the global surveillance program used by the Anglosphere intelligence alliance Five Eyes.
Sam Clarke, the UK Prime Minister, receives a state visit from the newly elected United States President Will Derringer, a former action movie star. The two do not get along due to their differing views on leadership, and a public argument breaks out between them during a joint press conference. Their respective aides Quincy and Bradshaw convince them to fly to the upcoming NATO summit in Trieste together aboard Air Force One to present a united front to the world.
