'Saturday Night' filmmaker Jason Reitman talks about why Lorne Michaels hasn't seen the SNL origins movie yet. The cast of the film talk about their process.
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“If you think about the fact that he created this show three, four times over before Lonely Island arrived, or Please Don’t Destroy shows up. He reinvents what is comedy every five to ten years and it’s because he’s never looking in the rearview mirror,” thewhen his agent asked about his future hopes, the filmmaker expressed that one of his dreams was to write onSo, Reitman scored a week writing on the show back in 2007 which he says, “was one of the greatest weeks of my life.
In developing the movie, Reitman and his creative partner Gil Kenan began interviewing “everyone who was alive in the building that night. Every living writer, every living actor, Lorne himself, NBC pages, members of Billy Preston’s band. Anyone who could give us insight into what it felt like on Oct. 11, 1975,” say the filmmaker.
Arriving with Reitman at Deadline’s TIFF studio, and unveiling their character process was Gabriel LaBelle , Ella Hunt , Dylan O’Brien , Lamorne Morris , Cory Michael Smith and Rachel Sennott .
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