Jason Reitman’s “comedy thriller” arrives on October 11, the 49th anniversary of the late-night show’s first episode.
chaos first Night of Saturday Night Live – and how the show was nearly dead upon its arrival – is the focus of the upcoming “erotic comedy.” Saturday nightwhich depicts the hours leading up to the first broadcast.
“At 11:30 p.m. on October 11, 1975, a fierce band of young comedians and writers changed television — and culture — forever,” Sony Pictures Entertainment said in the film’s synopsis.
“Saturday night Based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the ninety minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live“Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost never happened, we count the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words…”
Directed by Jason Reitman, who also co-wrote the film with Gil Kenan, Saturday Night features an all-star cast portraying SNLAn all-star cast, with Gabrielle LaBelle leading the way as Lorne Michaels. Rachel Sennott (as SNL Writer Rosie Schuster), Cooper Hoffman (as future NBC CEO Dick Ebersol), Nicholas Braun (as Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman), Finn Wolfhard (as an NBC page struggling to fill a live audience), and Matthew Rhys (as NBC’s first-ever CEO). SNL Host George Carlin is also among the cast.
“Ninety minutes of live TV by a bunch of twenty-somethings who’ve never made anything. Do you stop and wonder why they agreed to a countercultural show starring complete unknowns with no narrative or structure,” Hoffman’s Ebersol tells Michaels in the trailer. “They want you to fail.”
As Reitman recently said, He said Vanity Fair to Saturday night“It’s a comedy thriller, if you can call it that kind of movie. I’ve always described this movie as a space shuttle launch, and the question was, ‘Are they going to get deorbited?’
Saturday night Arrives on October 11, exactly 49 years later. SNLThe first episode of the series.
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