By Jason Reitman’s untitled SNL launch night project has scored an official title – “Saturday Night” – and has set an October 11th release date in cinemas.
Sony Pictures will distribute the film which is arriving on the same day of the year that the legendary NBC comedy show was first ever broadcast back in 1975.
It also comes ahead of the series launching its 50th season this Fall. The new date has led to suggestions the film will have its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September. A trailer drop is also likely very shortly.
The packed cast includes Gabriel LaBelle (Lorne Michaels), Dylan O’Brien (Dan Akroyd), Cory Michael Smith (Chevy Chase), Rachel Sennott (Rosie Shuster), Lamorne Morris (Garrett Morris), Nicholas Braun (Jim Henson), Jon Batiste (Billy Preston), Ella Hunt (Gilda Radnor), Cooper Hoffman (Dick Ebersol), Andrew Barth Feldman (Neil Levy), Naomi McPherson (Janis Ian), Willem Defoe (David Tebet), J.K. Simmons (Milton Berle), Kaia Gerber (Jacqueline Carlin), and Finn Wolfhard (an NBC Page), among others.
Reitman directs from a script co-written with Gil Kenan and based on a true story. The real-time film follows the behind the scenes events in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live”.
Jason Blumenfeld, Peter Rice, Reitman and Gil Kenan produce.
Source: Deadline
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