Saturday Night recounts final 90 minutes leading up to the first airing of Saturday Night Live on Oct. 11, 1975 at 11:30 p.m.
We love a behind the scenes video where we get to know more about the movie and the actors. Now that it’s September, we’re not surprised that we’re getting one for the upcoming movie, Saturday Night.
The movie is about, “It’s the mid-1970s, and a flipbook of Watergate, Vietnam, and rising counterculture make everything old in America feel broken, and everything new feel scary as hell. And now, yet another certainty is about to crack. Because in 90 minutes’ time, live, from New York, it’s Saturday Night.
SATURDAY NIGHT dives headfirst into the frenzied hour-and-a-half before a clutch of unknown, untrained, unruly young comedians took over network television and transformed the culture. Saturday Night Live would go on to become the late-night institution that brought John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and later Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, and others to our screens. But tonight, it’s barely contained madness backstage, with Canadian Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) desperately trying to channel the chaos towards a vision even he’s not sure of.”
The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Cooper Hoffman, Gabriel LaBelle, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien, Emily Fairn, Matt Wood, Willem Dafoe, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Finn Wolfhard, Andrew Barth Feldman, Kaia Gerber, Tommy Dewey and Oscar winner J.K. Simmons.
Saturday Night is directed by Jason Reitman hits theaters on October 11th.
See the behind the scenes video below –
