10 Upcoming Movies That Will Change Your Mind About Actors

Now is a good time to be Jesse Eisenberg, who seems to be masterminding his own reinvention over the next few years. He looks likely to continue his usual character model for The End Of The Tour, but then he's playing the most unexpected of roles, a stoner with a dark secret that makes him the target of a shady government agency.

You can completely believe the idea of Eisenberg as a sleepy town outsider (even if the conceit that he's a stoner doesn't quite fit with his quick-shift, energetic approach to neurotic acting), but as some sort of sleeper agent? That's a difficult sell.

American Ultra might actually be the most important step Eisenberg has on the way to Batman V Superman. If he can actually sell himself as enough of a threat to require a government crack-down (that's still a leap), then he might just have what it takes to be Luthor.

Will It Last?

It probably needs to. Lex Luthor is Eisenberg's most challenging role, as well as Dawn Of Justice's biggest gamble, and the continuation of the Justice League universe depends on not just a success for both, but an absolute land-slide victory.