In a 2017 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Scarpa described the film as being "a two-hour, lean, mean political thriller, full of assassinations, etc. ", and that it will be "going the opposite direction from the way we think that movie is going to go."
In a 2017 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Scarpa described the film as a two-hour, concentrated, suspenseful political thriller packed with assassinations, and he indicated that it would go against conventional movie narratives.