While a female US president won't happen for at least three years, director Patricia Riggen already gives us a glimpse into what America could look like with a woman helming it in G20. Viola Davis steps into the powerful role of President Danielle Sutton, who faces a whirlwind of foreign and domestic threats during the G20 summit in Cape Town in this energetic and explosive film.

Convincing the other world leaders to back up her Bitcoin program becomes the least of her worries when terrorists take over the summit for money and power. What starts as a hopeful summit rapidly becomes a political pressure cooker filled with political intrigue, backstabbing, blood and the harmful and terrifying usage of AI and deepfakes. As the story unfolds, this presidential term seems to be the most challenging and possibly deadliest for Sutton. To try and save everyone, including her kids and husband, Sutton assembles a team of the only few people she knows she can genuinely trust. But as we all know, trust can be easily broken.

Just like the lead character in her latest film, Riggen can also count on an impeccable team of cast and crew. The most thrilling scene is the ballroom scene, when the terrorists are storming through the doors and destroying everything and everyone who crosses their path. According to Riggen, that scene “was very complicated to shoot because so many people were involved. It was also tricky to schedule it in a way that we could then destroy it. So I had to ensure that I had shot all the scenes before we came in and to shoot everything.”

Before G20 debuts on Prime Video, FILMHOUNDS had a sit down with Riggen to talk about preparing for an action-packed movie full of stunts, using military and security advisors to ensure the accuracy of the feature, and how shooting in Cape Town was both a blessing and a curse for the film.