The first posters for the upcoming action comedy movie show both Kristen and Jesse blowing smoke.
- May 15, 2015
AceShowbiz - The first "American Ultra" posters featuring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg have been released. The posters offer a first look at Kristen and Jesse's characters Mike and Phoebe respectively. Kristen dons orange hair red plaid shirt and white tee, while Jesse sports shoulder-length wig, brown jacket and mint tee.
Director Nima Nourizadeh reveals the plot of the movie to MTV News. Mike is planning to propose to Phoebe, but nothing is going as planned. After trying to take Phoebe out of town, he begins having severe panic attacks. Soon, it's revealed that Mike is a sleeper agent and the government is trying to kill him.
Nima also describes Kristen and Jesse's characters. Nima says of Mike, "He's got this life that seems pretty kind of lame to most people if they would see it from the outside, but he seems super content. He doesn't have a lot of responsibilities in life, he's just been going out with this girl Phoebe."
"You look at Jesse and he's got like long hair and he's just like a stoner, slacker guy... As soon as that wig's on his head you just had a much more slower, low-key vibe about him," the director adds, "His main motivation in the movie really right now at the beginning anyways is to propose to her. He's in love with her, that's his life, he wants to propose to her."
Of Kristen, Nima says, "We dyed her hair like orangey-red, and that made her look so different. So there's a kind of slightly scruffy look to her but she still looks so amazing. When you watch the movie, you know, you'll see like Kristen playing the character that you wouldn't expect her to necessarily. I think she's funny. There's stuff that when you watch the movie, you go, 'Ah, that's a good one. I've never seen her like that!' "
Nima says "American Ultra" is a genre buster, crossing conventions left and right. "What's really unique about this movie is the fact that it's like this kind of crazy action-comedy, but really at the core there is this like romance and there's this love story where all he wants to do is to propose to her," he explains, "Really if you look at it, the action that comes into play is basically the stuff that's softening it. It's like the hurdles that you have to like overcome."
The director continues, "His world just gets turned upside down and he starts to realize who he actually is. For a lot of the movie, he's just like unaware of what's going on, why these people are trying to kill him, and he soon finds out. It's just this weird sort of entertaining, well-rounded, totally unique movie, I think where you know you'll be laughing one minute, you'll be hopefully quite shocked at some of the action that we did. It's violent, it's graphic, it's funny, it's silly at times, you know it's just got so many things going on that its hard to actually define really."
