Max Landis talks about "American Ultra"

The writer of American Ultra, Max Landis, talked a little about the movie in a new interview. Check out the excerpts from the interview below:

Let's talk about your next release, AMERICAN ULTRA.

ML: It's a really cool movie, it's funny and romantic and violent. It's quite silly and weird but also kind of dark and edgy. It's a movie about identity and choosing the identity that works best for you and the one that makes you happy and makes the person you love happy. All the main characters in some way grapple with their identity in the movie. Ultimately, the ones who make the right choice about their identity things work out for them and the ones who make the wrong choice are punished very severely. That script is one of the most fun to read out of the things I've written. I would describe myself as very happy with AMERICAN ULTRA.

What it's feel like to see something that you wrote come to life on the big sreen, like seeing Kristen Stewart say the line that you conjured up?

ML: Very surreal. It's rewarding and sometimes very surprising in a really great way, because someone adds something that's way better than you expect. But I tell ya, there is no worse feeling than seeing a great scene that an actor fucked up and no better feeling than seeing a scene that they hit out of the park. There are moments in AMERICAN ULTRA that are exactly how I saw them in my head and that is like being Zeus. It feels better than anything. It's the thrill you chase, but you know you can't exist on that high. Because it comes rarely as a screenwriter. You can't live on that high. You have to find a way to make the writing its own reward.

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