Stewart Connects 'The Wrong Girls' to 'American Ultra'
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- Kristen Stewart stars in "The Wrong Girls," a stoner comedy now in theaters written and directed by Dylan Meyer, playing dual roles as college dropout Frankie and her doppelganger Frances, a government agency employee developing a psychic drug.
- Stewart told Deadline she sees a connection between Frances and her character Phoebe from 2015's "American Ultra," noting Phoebe was also "an official lady working at a government agency" in a superhuman drug trial — calling the parallel "deep as hell."
- Dylan Meyer wrote the film over 14 years based on stories about herself and her best friend, and acknowledged she's been asked about a sequel because "they basically get superpowers at the end of the movie" — though she said she doesn't "currently" have plans for one.
- Meyer added she "could easily write for them forever" and gets "the impulse to sort of build out the universe," but cautioned "it's hard to compete with the first one of anything."
- The film follows codependent stoner best friends Frankie and Molly (Alia Shawkat) who discover a mysterious mind-reading drug while scrambling to pay rent in 24 hours.
Why it matters: Stewart's on-the-spot acknowledgment of the American Ultra link reframes a decade-old film as part of her current creative universe, and with Meyer leaving the door open for sequels, the shared-universe suggestion fans are already riffing on now has an implicit authorial nod.
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