Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg are teaming up for “American Ultra,” an action comedy from Nima Nourizadeh, the director of the surprise hit comedy “Project X.”

    Max Landis, who wrote the hit sci-fi movie “Chronicle,” penned the script for “Ultra,” which is being produced by Anthony Bregman of “Likely Story,” and by David Alpert and Britton Rizzio of “Circle of Confusion.”

    Eisenberg will play an unmotivated* stoner* named Mike, who lives with his girlfriend Phoebe (Stewart) in a small, sleepy town. One night, their lives take an unexpected turn when Mike’s past comes back to haunt* him, and he becomes the target of a government operation set to wipe him out*.

    “Simply put, ‘American Ultra’ will be the most fun you can possibly have in a movie theater without the use of drugs, fireworks or canola oil,” said Bregman, the prolific indie producer whose most recent credit is “Enough Said.”

    Production is set to begin in April 2014.

    Stewart has been working in the indie world since finishing the “Twilight” movies and “Snow White and the Huntsman,” having recently wrapped “Camp X-Ray” and “Sils Maria.”

    Eisenberg was one of the stars in “Now You See Me,” Summit’s hit heist* movie that now has a sequel in the works. He also has indie dramas “The Double” and “Night Moves” in the can*.

    The two starred opposite each other in 2009’s “Adventureland.”(SD-Agencies)