Tuesday, April 15, 2014

"American Ultra" Gets Going; Adds 3

Tony Hale John Leguizamo and  Bill Pullman help round ou the cast of the action comedy "American Ultra" at Lionsgate says Deadline.


The story follows a stoner named Mike (Jesse Eisenberg) whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend (Kristen Stewart) Phoebe is upended when his past catches up with him, putting him in the line of a sight of a government operation sworn to kill him.

Walton Goggins will play the role of Laugher in the film. Uma Thurman will play a government worker who spearheaded a secret program to create sleeper agents. Now that someone wants to kill her creation, she will fight to protect them. Topher Grace will play a power-hungry CIA agent who has recently made seniority and is determined to hunt Mike down.

Project X director Nima Nourizadeh calls action using a script from Chronicle's Max Landis.

Anthony Bregman, David Alpert and Britton Rizzio are producing the pic

Production began in New Orleans on Monday.

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