John Cena And Idris Elba Team Up On Amazon's New Heads Of State

Idris Elba (Thor, The Wire) and John Cena (The Suicide Squad, WWE) will be teaming up on a new project for Amazon Studios, according to Deadline. The film sees the pair working together in another post Suicide Squad movie.

The new movie, tentatively titled Heads of State is a "'90s style two-hander, a high-octane premise that has a bit of Air Force One meets Hobbs and Shaw, bringing together an odd couple in a high-stakes situation." Otherwise, details are still scarce about the show and the deal, which reportedly was closed before the pitching process with executives was even finished.

The new movie is the result of a collaboration between screenwriter Harrison Query (Three Musketeers, War Party) and producers Peter Safran and John Rickard. Query also is working with Netflix on My Wife And I Bought A Ranch, a horror short story adapted from Reddit posts.

Meanwhile, Elba recently teased a hopeful future for another one of his projects, Luther. Elba said that while there are no "formal plans" for a sixth season of the gritty BBC crime drama series, he's "made it very clear that I'd like to see Luther come back as a film… I can tell you this, that we are this close to making a film of Luther."

Cena, who teams with Elba in James Gunn's upcoming The Suicide Squad, said his role of Peacemaker in that movie will be a "douchey Captain America." The Suicide Squad movie is currently slated for a 2021 release, and Cena's Peacemaker character is already due to get a spin-off show from James Gunn.