Saturday Night

[Winston T. Boogie]

Title: Saturday Night

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Director: Jason Reitman

Cast: Gabriel LaBelle, Cooper Hoffman, Rachel Sennott, Ella Hunt, Andrew Barth Feldman, Finn Wolfhard, Dylan O'Brien, Cory Michael Smith, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Braun, Lamorne Morris, Emily Fairn, Kim Matula, Matt Wood, Tommy Dewey, Nicholas Podany, Kaia Gerber, J.K. Simmons, Billy Bryk, Joe Chrest, Taylor Gray, Mcabe Gregg, Rick Moose, John Dinello, Marko Caka, Ellen Boscov, Naomi McPherson, Catherine Curtin, Jon Batiste, Jeff Pope, Rowan Joseph, Celeste Blandon, Leander Suleiman, James Logan, Presley Coley, Justin Matthew Smith, Stephen Badalamenti, Abraham Hsu, William C. Tate, Mary-Clare Bone, Dalton Causey

Plot: On October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the true story of what happened that night behind the scenes in the moments leading up to the first SNL broadcast, retelling chaos and magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, counting down the minutes in real time to the infamous words, “Live From New York, it’s Saturday Night.”

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

The first Saturday Night live shows, I remember watching them, were a big deal to me as a kid. I look forward to seeing this.

 

[EricSchulz]

I’m a huge fan of so much of SNL, especially the first season. This could be good.

 

[Sam Favate]

Is Lorne Michaels the central character here? From the preview, I get the vibe that “they said he couldn’t do it, and here we are, 50 years later!”

I’m in for this, no matter what. The first five years of the show were as groundbreaking as anything on TV, right up there with All in the Family.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Is Lorne Michaels the central character here? From the preview, I get the vibe that “they said he couldn’t do it, and here we are, 50 years later!”

I’m in for this, no matter what. The first five years of the show were as groundbreaking as anything on TV, right up there with All in the Family.

It seems like an ensemble piece but I believe it only is telling the story of the night of the very first show. I would assume Lorne is a rather large piece of that story, so perhaps he is the point which the rest of the story revolves around.

 

[JoeStemme]

It's been amusing, if not surprising, this week to see the reaction to the release of the poster for the SNL film coming out this fall, SATURDAY NIGHT (2nd photo). People are like – it looks sort of like one of those old 60s or 70s posters – not realizing that it's an obvious homage to the late great JACK DAVIS (the collage).

Davis designed designed dozens of film posters including, yes, many from the “60s or 70s” (which, of course, is when the SNL movie takes place (1975). His other work includes Record Albums, TV Guide covers and ads. Davis was one of the founding cartoonists for Mad Magazine in the 50s and continue to work for them and other publications until he passed in 2016.

 

[EricSchulz]

Too bad they couldn’t use this!

 

[Sam Favate]

That poster is awesome. Really reflects the lost art of movie posters.

 

[WillG]

The first Saturday Night live shows, I remember watching them, were a big deal to me as a kid. I look forward to seeing this.

Kind of looks like they are making Dick Ebersol to look like the bad guy. I hope that’s not the case. He was only second to Lorne to developing SNL and kept it alive in the early to mid 80s

Also Bob Tischler the co show runner and head writer during the Ebersol years just died a few days ago

 

[JoeStemme]

Too bad they couldn’t use this! View attachment 229270

Exactly what I meant by it looking like 60s or 70s artwork! Davis did a bunch of TV guide covers. I guess this new poster design was someone's idea of a tribute.

 

[Desslar]

Hmm... if, which seems to be the case, the film focuses on the mechanics/challenges of making a live TV comedy show in 1975 then I'm interested. If it were more of a tribute to the cast's early sketches then not so much.

Sort of feel like this film is a decade or two late. The show has been so awful for so long now.

 

[Alex...]

Some reactions from the world premiere at Telluride.

‘Saturday Night' Reactions ... — World of Reel

Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night” had its world premiere at Telluride, and the reactions are so far very positive.

www.worldofreel.com

 

[Alex...]