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The Big Picture Jon Batiste has become one of the most well-known musicians of his generation and has a host of Grammy Awards to show for it - and now he's jumping back into the acting world. Batiste has been cast in Sony Pictures' upcoming film SNL 1975, about the creation of NBC's iconic sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Reitman will direct SNL 1975 from a script he wrote with Gil Kenan. The pair will also produce the film for Reitman's production banner Right of Way Films alongside Jason Blumenfeld and Peter Rice. Erica Mills and JoAnn Perritano will executive produce. Beyond this, Bastiste and Stay Human were best known as the in-house band for CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert from 2015 to 2022, giving him and the band a nightly national audience. SNL 1975 will not be Batiste's first experience with film, as he has previously been cast in other works such as The Color Purple in 2023. His most notable film-related work, though, came in 2020, when he co-composed the score for the Pixar animated film Soul.
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