Ghostbusters: Afterlife director Jason Reitman to helm Saturday Night time Reside film concerning the behind-the-scenes drama of the very first present.
We’re simply two years away from celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Saturday Night time Reside, the late-night sketch comedy sequence which has launched a thousand careers, prompted thousands and thousands of guffaws, and been a fixture of tv for longer than many people have been alive. The very first Saturday Night time Reside broadcast occurred on the night of October 11, 1975, and Deadline stories that Jason Reitman is creating a film to inform the behind-the-scenes story of that evening.
Jason Reitman will direct the Saturday Night time Reside film, which he’s additionally co-writing with Gil Kenan. “The movie will probably be set on Oct. eleventh, 1975, the place a ferocious troupe of younger comedians and writers modified tv ceaselessly,” reads Deadline’s description. “That is the true story of what occurred that evening behind the scenes within the moments main as much as the primary broadcast of Saturday Night time Reside. The chaos and magic of a revolution that nearly wasn’t, as we countdown the minutes in actual time to the notorious phrases, ‘Reside From New York, it’s Saturday Night time.’“
The screenplay is predicated on numerous interviews which Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan carried out with the entire dwelling solid, writers, and crew who had been concerned within the authentic manufacturing.
Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan are at the moment in manufacturing on the Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel, which Kenan is directing. “It’s an absolute honor to choose up the proton pack and step behind the digital camera for the subsequent chapter of the Spengler household saga,” Kenan mentioned upon taking the gig. “I simply want I might return to 1984 and inform the child within the sixth row of the Mann Valley West that someday he was going to get to direct a Ghostbusters movie.” Mckenna Grace and Finn Wolfhard have returned to star alongside Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd. The sequel may even see the return of Ernie Hudson as Dr. Winston Zeddemore in addition to one other character from the unique film who I didn’t anticipate seeing once more. The challenge was just lately teased at CinemaCon, with the solid and crew sharing a video from the set.
