Brace yourself for the show with Jason Reitman’s ‘Saturday Night’
Every time director Jason Reitman takes to the big screen, we know we’ll be in for a surprise. His newest film, Saturday Night, recounts the events of October 11, 1975, and the arrival of a comedy variety show that would forever change late-night television.
Watch the official trailer for Saturday Night below:
Here’s the official synopsis:
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 written by Gil Kenan & Reitman, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words…
Reitman, alongside writer Gil Kenan, is ready to wind back the clock and take us back to the mid-1970s and the arrival of pure comic genius with Saturday Night, which recreates the lead-up to the first airing of Saturday Night Live, and the cheer chaos and mania that surrounded this first-ever production, that would go on to change television, and comedy, forever. Reitman has described the film as a ‘comedy-thriller’ with time as the enemy, and this first trailer is filled with tension, headbutting, mania and sheer chaos as a young and inexperienced Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) does everything in his power to realise a profound, and incredibly risky dream.
Saturday Night looks like an incredibly wild cinematic experience, and after being spellbound by the first look at the feature thanks to Vanity Fair, we’re now treated to something truly amazing in this first trailer, and it’s utterly uncanny how Reitman and his crteative team have recreated this once and a lifetime comedy all-star moment.
The casting for Saturday Night is out of this world, and the reflection of the cast with their real-life counterparts will make you go waw. With a cast including 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, Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman, Matt Wood as John Belushi, Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris, Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, Nicholas Braun as Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson, Cooper Hoffman as Dick Ebersol, Kaia Gerber as Jacqueline Carlin, Tommy Dewey as Michael O’Donoghue, Willem Dafoe as David Tebet, Matthew Rhys as George Carlin and J. K. Simmons as Milton Berle, Saturday Night is goint to be something truly special.
Get ready for one hell of a show when Saturday Night arrives in cinemas on November 7.
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