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‘Saturday Night’: Read The Screenplay That Sketches Out The 90 Minutes Before ‘SNL’ Debut That Changed Late-Night TV Forever


Saturday Night tells the origin story of NBC's venerable late-night SNL franchise by focusing on the 90 minutes leading up to its TV debut in 1975.

The flick written by Reitman and Gil Kenan takes place on October 11, 1975, when an ambitious troupe of young comedians and writers would go on to change television forever. The movie stars Gabriel LaBelle as SNL honcho Lorne Michaels, Dylan O’Brien (as Dan Aykroyd), Cory Michael Smith (Chevy Chase), Rachel Sennott (Rosie Shuster), Lamorne Morris (Garrett Morris), Nicholas Braun (Jim Henson), Finn Wolfhard (NBC page), Jon Batiste (Billy Preston), Ella Hunt (Gilda Radner), Cooper Hoffman (Dick Ebersol), Andrew Barth Feldman (Neil Levy), Naomi McPherson (Janis Ian), Willem Dafoe (David Tebet), J.K. Simmons (Milton Berle) and Kaia Gerber (Jacqueline Carlin) among others. The pic, which was praised by the real Akyroyd as “a propulsive, engaging, funny, beautifully cast and acted, suspenseful, adventurous, music-filled ride,” is produced by Jason Blumenfeld, Peter Rice, Reitman and Kenan.

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