{"id":34433,"date":"2024-08-13T13:26:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=34433"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T09:52:50","slug":"jason-reitmans-saturday-night-trailer-turns-the-first-snl-taping-into-an-edge-of-your-seat-nail-biter-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=34433","title":{"rendered":"Jason Reitman\u2019s \u2018Saturday Night\u2019 Trailer Turns the First \u2018SNL\u2019 Taping Into an Edge-of-Your-Seat Nail-Biter | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
Live from New York, it\u2019s a very chaotic \u201cSaturday Night.\u201d Jason Reitman\u2019s new film, which dramatizes the airing of the first-ever episode of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d back in 1975, hits theaters on Oct. 11, courtesy of Columbia Pictures, just as the NBC show celebrates its 50th anniversary season. But you can at least get a taste of the mayhem, thanks to a brand-new trailer, which you can watch below. The trailer certainly captures the franticness of those opening night jitters (perhaps fueled by substances both legal and illegal). Reitman recently described the movie to Vanity Fair as \u201ca thriller-comedy, if you can call that a genre.\u201d And you definitely get that vibe, especially since, in the same article, Reitman admitted that it was essentially playing out in real time, covering the 90 minutes before the show went live \u2014 and changed television forever.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also very fun to see all of the young actors that Reitman has cast as the famous \u201cSNL\u201d alums, led by Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels and Cooper Hoffman as NBC executive Dick Ebersol. In front of the camera, Dylan O\u2019Brien plays Dan Aykroyd, Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman and Nicholas Braun as Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson (yes, Henson had Muppet-less segments on the first season of the show). But the fun doesn\u2019t stop there, as you can briefly glimpse in the trailer, Willem Dafoe plays executive David Tebet, J.K. Simmons is Milton Berle and Matthew Rhys is George Carlin. Meanwhile, Jon Batiste plays Billy Preston, the first episode\u2019s musical guest, and also provides the film\u2019s score as dear Finn Wolfhard plays a very put-upon NBC page.<\/p>\n

The movie was written by Reitman and frequent collaborator Gil Kenan (they both wrote \u201cGhostbusters: Frozen Empire,\u201d which was released earlier this year) and produced by Reitman, Kenan, Jason Blumenfeld and Peter Rice. \u201cSaturday Night\u201d is barreling towards an awards-corridor release, despite only starting filming in March 2024. But it indeed seems to have all of the makings of a major contender \u2014 a bright young cast, a filmmaker that the Academy loves (Reitman has been nominated for Best Director twice) and an undeniably entertaining, based-on-a-true-story hook.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaturday Night\u201d hits theaters on Oct. 11.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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