Jason Reitman Explores What Happened Leading Up To The First Ever SNL Episode In Saturday Night Trailer
Saturday Night Live has become ingrained in American culture, but, what is now an iconic, expected weekly late night show wasn’t always that. The SNL we know and love today started as an unnerving scramble.
On October 11, 1975 at 11:30pm, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever with Saturday Night Live. Director Jason Reitman explores what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast in the new film Saturday Night. Reitman told Vanity Fair “this is a movie where the villain is time. It’s like our Sauron. Our Darth Vader is a clock, and you feel its presence at all times.”
Much like the original SNL troupe, the cast includes a colorful ensemble of this generation’s comedic likeness including Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman, Gabriel LaBelle as the one who started it all Lorne Michaels, and this generation’s notable female comedian Rachel Sennott as SNL writer Rosie Shuster, who’s also Michaels’ wife. The cast also consists of Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Matt Wood as John Belushi, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Finn Wolfhard as an NBC Page, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, and Willem Dafoe as David Tebet, and the list doesn’t stop there. I
Saturday Night will fittingly premiere on October 11 — the same exact night that SNL premiered 49 years ago.
