Jason Reitman’s SNL 1975 gets new title, release date

Jason Reitman's Saturday Night Live film, which had the working title SNL 1975, has now been officially renamed as Saturday Night. The film's makers, have also announced that the film will hit theatres on October 11 this year. 

It is to be noted that the legendary comedy show, Saturday Night Live, was first broadcast on October 11. October 11 2024 will mark the 49th anniversary of the show, which will be launching its 50th season this year.

Jason Reitman is directing Saturday Night from a script written by Gil Kenan. The basis for the script is a set of interviews that Kenan and Reitman did with some of the Saturday Night Live cast, as well as its crew members and writers.

The official synopsis of Saturday Night reads, "At 11.30 pm that night, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes in real-time to the famous words: ‘Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!" The film will portray what happened 90 minutes before the broadcast behind the scene of SNL. 

Saturday Night features an ensemble cast including, Gabriel LaBelle as  Lorne Michaels, Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris, Nicholas Braun as Jim Henson, Finn Wolfhard as an NBC page, Jon Batiste as Billy Preston, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radnor, Cooper Hoffman as Dick Ebersol, Andrew Barth Feldman as Neil Levy, Naomi McPherson as  Janis Ian, Willem Dafoe as David Tebet, J K Simmons as Milton Berle and Kaia Gerber as Jacqueline Carlin, among others.

Kenan and Reitman are also producing the film alongside Jason Blumenfeld, Peter Rice, and Erica Mills. Sony Pictures is distributing the film.