Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night’s first trailer
The Jason Reitman SNL origin story comes out October 11
Photo: Hopper Stone courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment
These days, we might know Saturday Night Live as a funny, (usually) well-oiled machine, but the legendary show’s first night was more akin to something ripped from a Christopher Nolan film. At least that’s how the 90 minutes leading up to showtime look in the hands of director Jason Reitman, whose highly-anticipated Saturday Night finally dropped its first trailer today.
One of the first things you notice in Saturday Night’s trailer is the clock. “They have 90 minutes to get their shit together,” reads the film’s logline, which serves as the endpoint of hundreds of interviews conducted by Reitman and co-writer Gil Kenan with almost every living member of that first episode’s cast and crew. This trailer is tense, fully living up to the director’s description of the film as a “thriller-comedy” in an interview with Vanity Fair earlier this week. “It doesn’t matter that we’re ready, it matters that it’s 11:30. That’s when we go on,” says The Fabelman’s Gabriel Labelle—playing a young and flustered Lorne Michaels—to Cooper Hoffman’s Dick Ebersol, NBC’s then-VP of Late Night Programming.
