Amazon Studios has picked up the action movie Heads of State, to star Idris Elba and John Cena, from The Safran Company, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Harrison Query is penning the script and Peter Safran and John Rickard are producing. WWE star-turned-actor Cena and Elba are already on board the Suicide Squad sequel, with James Gunn writing and directing the Warner Bros.
superhero follow-up. Idris Elba is also set to star inBeast, a survival thriller that Baltasar Kormakur will direct for Universal Pictures.
Elba, who starred in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw for Universal, is also coming off the Toronto Film Festival debut of the drama Concrete Cowboy.
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