{"id":51397,"date":"2023-05-01T19:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T23:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=51397"},"modified":"2023-05-02T23:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T03:30:29","slug":"jason-reitman-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/01\/jason-reitman-saturday-night-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Reitman To Direct Film On Opening Night Of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Saturday<\/a>
Image via NBC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jason Reitman is getting ready to go live from New York.<\/p>\n

Deadline is reporting that the Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/strong> director is developing a feature film which will depict the backstage story of the hours leading up to the debut broadcast of the soon to become iconic television series Saturday Night Live<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Reportedly, Reitman and screenwriter Gil Kenan, who collaborated with Reitman on Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/strong>, have done extensive interviews with the surviving cast and crew members from that first broadcast as the basis for their screenplay.<\/p>\n

The show that would become known as Saturday Night Live<\/em> premiered on NBC at 11:30pm on October 11, 1975 under the slightly shorter title Saturday Night<\/em>. (It would officially become known as Saturday Night Live midway through its second season.) Almost immediately, the show became an instant sensation, shaping the landscape of comedy for decades to come. <\/p>\n

A number of books on the history of Saturday Night Live have at least partly told this story before. But this is the first time that these events will be dramatized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The film will dramatize the backstage chaos leading up to its 1975 premiere. <\/div>\n

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