Filmmaker Jason Reitman | Photo credit: Amanda Edwards
Filmmaker Jason Reitman’s upcoming biopic is based on the hit American live sketch comedy show Saturday night Live officially titled Saturday night,
Hollywood studio Sony Pictures shared the news of the film’s title and also revealed that the movie will be released in US cinemas on October 11, exactly 49 years after the show first aired on American network NBC on October 11, 1975.
The screenplay, written by Reitman and Gil Kenan, is based on an extensive series of interviews the pair conducted with all of the surviving cast, writers, and crew about the show’s 50th season.
Saturday night The behind-the-scenes moments leading up to SNL’s first broadcast will be described.
The film will feature a star cast that includes Gabriel LaBelle as SNL mainstay Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott as Michaels’ then-wife Rosie Shuster, who worked as a writer for the show, Cooper Hoffman as NBC executive Dick Ebersol, Andrew Barth Feldman as Michaels’ cousin Neil Levy, Kaia Gerber as Chevy Chase’s then-girlfriend Jacqueline Carlin, and Finn Wolfhard as NBC’s Page.
Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Braun and JK Simmons will also star in the film in key roles.
Reitman, Kenan, Jason Blumenfeld, and Peter Rice are the film’s producers, while Erica Mills and Joan Perritano are executive producers.
