Oscar-nominated actress Sharon Stone is set to join Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart in Lionsgate’s action-comedy “American Ultra,” TheWrap has learned.
Stone takes over the role that Uma Thurman had been rumored for in the film, which Nima Nourizadeh (“Project X”) is directing from a script by Max Landis (“Chronicle”).
Also read: Sharon Stone Re-Creates ‘Basic Instinct’ Leg Cross on ‘Conan’ (Video)
Eisenberg stars as Mike, a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent in a government program created by Victoria Lasseter (Stone).