2024-11-01
31 分钟We interviewed every living person we could find who was in the building on October 11, 1975.
It started with Lorne and Dick Ebersol and Rosie Shuster, and then every writer, every actor, the production designer, people from the art department, the costume designer, Billy Preston's band, NBC pages, literally anyone we could find.
Paul Schaeffer, Howard Shore, who wrote the original theme, and all their stories didn't add up.
Everyone contradicted each other.
But what we did was we knew we were going to write the movie based on geography.
Hello, and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
In this episode, the premiere of Saturday Night Live is thrown off the rails with 90 minutes to air time in director Jason Reitman's biographical comedy Saturday Night.
Seen through the eyes of a young Lorne Michaels as he juggles equipment failures, actor fights, and producers pushing for reruns, the film follows Lorne and his troop of trailblazers behind the scenes leading up to the landmark show's first airing.
In addition to Saturday Night, Reitman's other directorial credits include the feature films thank youk for Smoking, Juno, Young Adult, Tully and Ghostbusters, Afterlife, and episodes of the series the Office and Casual.
He was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion pictures for his 2010 feature up in the Air.
Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Reitman spoke with director Guillermo del Toro about filming Saturday Night.
Listen on for their spoiler filled conversation.
Well, what I mean, let me start by saying this is a momentous accomplishment for me.
This is a difficult movie in every part of the execution.
And for me, there are four things you have to deliver.
The first is research, which would have its own weight.
The second is recreation and casting and all that.
The third one is the execution, which needs to be very disciplined to create this undisciplined atmosphere.
And the final is tonal and dramatic.
So we have 30 minutes.