Go at 25: The making of the coolest ecstasy-fuelled Christmas movie of all time

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They were like, ‘Nope, we need a white male star between 40 and 55 years old’ John August Initially, August wrote Go as a short film called “X” – an Americanism for what us Brits would call “E” – which just followed Ronna’s drug deal. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free “Katie had been cast in Dawson’s Creek but it hadn’t come out by the time we were shooting,” says August. “I remember thinking, ‘Maybe we could just never release the movie.’ That’s not an uncommon experience with other first cuts, but across all the movies I’ve been a part of, it was the furthest from what I thought it needed to be.” open image in gallery Innate cool: The original poster artwork for ‘Go’ Liman refined the film with reshoots, adding scenes to fill narrative gaps. “I would meet strangers who’d say, ‘I saw your movie 10 times at the theatre’,” August says.