Must See Trailer for Jason Reitman’s Early SNL Movie ‘Saturday Night’
by Alex Billington
August 8, 2024
Source: YouTube
“They have 90 minutes to get their shit together.” It’s time! Sony Pictures has unveiled the first trailer for a movie titled Saturday Night, formerly known as SNL 1975, a hilarious look at the first night of Saturday Night Live to ever air in 1975. Co-written and directed by Jason Reitman this comedy has been building buzz recently, as word on the street is that it’s fantastic. And now Sony has schedule it to open this October in just a few months (opening the same day in October that it also takes place on)! Surprise! At 11:30pm on October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Find out what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. The massive ensemble SNL cast includes: Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, with Emily Fairn, Matt Wood, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Andrew Barth Feldman, Kaia Gerber, Tommy Dewey, plus Willem Dafoe, Matthew Rhys, and J.K. Simmons. Yep this looks like it’s going to be a hit! A must watch trailer.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Jason Reitman’s film Saturday Night, direct from YouTube:
At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television – and culture – forever. Directed by Jason Reitman and co-written by Gil Kenan & Reitman, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the very last 90 minutes leading up to the very first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, and chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes in real time until we’ll hear those famous words… Saturday Night, formerly known as SNL 1975 while filming, is directed by acclaimed Canadian writer / filmmaker Jason Reitman, director of the movies Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult, Labor Day, Men Women & Children, Tully, The Front Runner, Ghostbusters: Afterlife previously. The screenplay is written by Gil Kenan (director of Monster House, City of Ember, A Boy Called Christmas, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) & Jason Reitman. Produced by Jason Blumenfeld, Peter Rice, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan. This hasn’t premiered at any festivals or elsewhere, as far as we know. Sony Pictures will debut Reitman’s Saturday Night movie in theaters nationwide starting October 11th, 2024 this fall. Who’s in? Look good?
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