SNL Biopic Saturday Night to Be Released Same Day as the Show’s Premiere

Saturday Night Live The festival will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, and there will surely be a host of famous faces appearing this fall and next year to congratulate themselves and the festival. It’s easy to take this as a joke, given the dire state of the festival. SNL Over the past decade, it's also easy to forget just how popular the show once was. A new film from director Jason Reitman (Juno, Ghostbusters: Afterlife) will remind us of all of that, and will be released on the same date as the first episode of Saturday Night Live It premiered on October 11, 1975. Read the synopsis below:

At 11:30 p.m. on October 11, 1975, a fierce band of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Gil Kenan and Reitman,

Saturday night

Based on a true story
What happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes before Saturday Night Live's first broadcast
In an atmosphere filled with humor, chaos and the magic of a revolution that almost didn't happen, we count the minutes in real time until we hear the famous words: “Live from New York, it's Saturday night!”

Cast Saturday night Includes Gabrielle Labelle (as Lorne Michaels), Dylan O'Brien (as Dan Aykroyd), Corey Michael Smith (as Chevy Chase), Rachel Sennott (as Rosie Schuster), Lamorne Morris (as Garrett Morris), Nicholas Braun (as Jim Henson), Finn Wolfhard (as NBC Page), Jon Batiste (as Billy Preston), Ella Hunt (as Gilda Radnor), Cooper Hoffman (as Dick Ebersol), Andrew Barth Feldman (as Neil Levy), Naomi MacPherson (as Janis Ian), Willem Dafoe (As David Tippett said) JK Simmons (as Milton Berle), and Kaia Gerber (as Jacqueline Carlin), among others.

Jason Reitman grew up associated with Saturday Night Live.

Based on the story summary, it sounds like… Saturday night may be man birdA one-shot, animated-style film about the chaos that goes on behind the scenes of a bizarre production. Whether it was shot in one take (which is unlikely) or not, there are certainly enough actors and subplots in the background to carry through the 90 minutes leading up to the TV show itself.

Jason Reitman is an excellent choice to direct and co-write the film, given that he grew up around so many celebrities. Saturday Night Live Stars of the 70s and 80s. There are stories of his misbehavior as a child on the set of the original movie. Ghostbusters (With its multiplicity SNL Stars) thanks to his father, Ivan Reitman. Ivan was the famous producer and director behind many of the projects that the cast of Saturday Night Liveincluded Lines, Animal House, And Ghostbusters.

The film is produced by Jason Blumenfeld, Peter Rice, Jason Reitman, and Gil Kenan. The executive producers are Erica Mills and Joan Beritano. Gil Kennan was a writer in Ghostbusters: Afterlife And Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, He worked with Bill Murray on his movie Ember CityReitman trusts him enough to co-write this biography that tells the behind-the-scenes story of the birth of a cultural institution.