Jason Reitman’s previously untitled Saturday Night Live project now has a title. It will now be called simply Saturday Night.
It has also set a release date of October 11th to hit cinemas. This is the date it was first broadcast in 1975, hosted on the night by George Carlin. The show would go on to become an American television legend, now in its 50th season.
There are rumors of a Toronto Film Festival premiere and an imminent trailer, according to reports in Deadline.
The cast is huge, as the roster of talent, in front of and behind the camera, on early SNL was similarly huge. They include:
Gabriel LaBelle (Lorne Michaels), Dylan O’Brien (Dan Akroyd), Cory Michael Smith (Chevy Chase), Rachel Sennott (Rosie Shuster), Lamorne Morris (Garrett Morris), Nicholas Braun (Jim Henson), Jon Batiste (Billy Preston), Ella Hunt (Gilda Radnor), Cooper Hoffman (Dick Ebersol), Andrew Barth Feldman (Neil Levy), Naomi McPherson (Janis Ian), Willem Defoe (David Tebet), J.K. Simmons (Milton Berle), and Kaia Gerber (Jacqueline Carlin).
Finn Wolfhard will appear as an NBC Page.
Reitman directs from a script written with his Ghostbusters collaborator Gil Kenan. It is based on actual events and follows the frantic 90 minutes leading up to the first-ever broadcast of Saturday Night Live.