{"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":"<figure id=\"attachment_51398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51398\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SNL-original-cast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SNL-original-cast.jpg\" alt=\"Saturday Night Live\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SNL-original-cast.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SNL-original-cast-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via NBC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jason Reitman is getting ready to go live from New York.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline is reporting that the <strong>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 <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, Reitman and screenwriter Gil Kenan, who collaborated with Reitman on <strong>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<p>The show that would become known as <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> premiered on NBC at 11:30pm on October 11, 1975 under the slightly shorter title <em>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<p>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":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The film will dramatize the backstage chaos leading up to its 1975 premiere. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/01\/jason-reitman-saturday-night-live\/\" title=\"Jason Reitman To Direct Film On Opening Night Of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[472,2787],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jason-reitman","9":"tag-saturday-night-live"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51397"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=51397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}