Jane Curtin (Kim Matula), Laraine Newman (Emily Fairn), Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle), Rosie Shuster (Rachel Sennott), and John Belushi (Matt Wood) in the Makeup Room in SATURDAY NIGHT. Courtesy of Sony Pictures.
Just a week ago, director Jason Reitman announced that his new Saturday Night Live biopic has a Fall theatrical release date & revealed the official title would be simply Saturday Night (formerly SNL 1975). And now, we have the first official trailer for the film and the anticipation could not be more real after getting a first look at the "thriller comedy" Reitman calls the film according to Vanity Fair.
Watch above & see how this young television crew, with The Fabelmans star Gabriel Labelle portraying SNL creator & executive producer Lorne Michaels conveying "we just have to make it to air," figures out in 90 minutes until showtime how to "get their shit together."
What's the new SNL movie "Saturday Night" about?
Setting the scene for the thrilling new feature film, Saturday Night tells the story of the road to the first episode of Saturday Night Live at 11:30pm on October 11, 1975. Following "a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers that changed television – and culture – forever." Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Gil Kenan & Reitman, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words… "Live From New York...it's Saturday Night!"
Kenan & Reitman's new flick is based on the real-life behind-the-scenes accounts of the NBC late-night show’s opening night & its screenplay is based on an extensive series of interviews conducted by Reitman and Kenan with all the living cast, writers and crew.
Among the cast portraying the SNL legends are LaBelle,Dylan O’Brien (Dan Aykroyd), Cory Michael Smith (Chevy Chase), Rachel Sennott (Rosie Shuster), Lamorne Morris (Garrett Morris), Nicholas Braun (Andy Kaufman/Jim Henson), Finn Wolfhard (NBC page), Jon Batiste (Billy Preston), Ella Hunt (Gilda Radner), Cooper Hoffman (Dick Ebersol), Andrew Barth Feldman (Neil Levy), Naomi McPherson (Janis Ian), Willem Dafoe (David Tebet), J.K. Simmons (Milton Berle), Kaia Gerber (Jacqueline Carlin), Matthew Rhys (George Carlin), and more.
Expect to hear more about the many other celebrations surrounding Saturday Night Live's 50th season set to return September 28th on NBC.
When does "Saturday Night" open in theaters?
Read more about who's playing who in Saturday Night here. The new movie opens in theaters on Friday, October 11th, 2024 (on the show's 49th anniversary of airing from its original showtime in 1975).
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