Tag: Lorne Michaels

Saturday Night Trailer Recreates TV and Comedy History

The Saturday Night Live movie is a lot closer than I thought it was. Announced a little over a year ago, the film, which is now called Saturday Night (which isn’t a great title, but it’s better than SNL 1975, its working title from earlier this year), is about the show’s first episode in 19...

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Saturday Night Live Movie Casts SNL Legends

The Saturday Night Live movie has put most of its main cast together. The film, which is titled SNL 1975 (Really, guys? That’s the best you could come up with?), is about the night of the sketch comedy show’s premiere episode and will be directed by Jason Reitman, who co-wrote the script with ...

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Jason Reitman Will Direct a Saturday Night Live Movie

The writers’ strike may have shuttered Saturday Night Live for a while, but the landmark sketch show will have its story told soon. Deadline exclusively reports that Jason Reitman will be directing a movie about the first episode of Saturday Night Live, which was once a comedy show. Reitman is wri...

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