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Jason Reitman’s ‘Saturday Night’ Will Go Platform Before Wide Fall Expansion – Update

Jason Reitman’s formerly untitled 'SNL 1975' movie has been titled 'Saturday Night' and will be released in theaters on October 11 via Columbia Pictures.

Deadline’s Awards Editor and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond declared that Reitman “nailed it” in casting the 80-speaking role movie with the likes of Gabriel LaBelle as SNL producer as Lorne Michaels, Dyan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Willem Dafoe as NBC exec David Tebet, Cory Michael Smith’s “spot-on Chevy Chase”; Lamorne Morris’s Garrett Morris, Matt Wood’s John Belushi and Succession ‘s Nicholas Braun doing double duty as Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman. Sony always has a presence at the Great White North film festival, not to mention Reitman’s Gary Hart movie The Front Runner starring Hugh Jackman at screened at Toronto in 2018 just after its world premiere at Telluride. The murderer’s row ensemble cast includes Gabriel LaBelle (as Lorne Michaels), Dylan O’Brien (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.

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