It's chaos backstage at Saturday Night Live [bande-annonce]

The tribute film to the American show, scheduled for release in the fall, is being unveiled at a rapid pace.

For a few months now, we have been hearing about this film project around the uncertain beginnings of the most famous show in the United States: Saturday Night Live. Now that we know that the film is scheduled for October, everything is speeding up. Vanity Fair recently unveiled the first images of this film, directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Ghostbusters: Legacy).

Today, it's Sony Pictures, the film's American distributor, who is creating a surprise by putting a breathtaking trailer online. Because, for Jason Reitman, there was no question of making this historical film a parody of SNL. The trailer thus turns into a race against time, playing on a heavy suspense that we immediately feel: this band of sweet-crazies, led by Lorne Michaelswill she manage to produce the very first SNL show?

In addition to the ambient suspense, it is an almost cynical humor that Jason Reitman seems to deploy in his film, and which echoes the first poster, which gives a cold and sarcastic summary of the film:

“The writers are drunk, the set is on fire, the sound system is a mess, the actors are fighting each other, the crew is mutinying. They have ninety minutes to fix everything or the network will shut it down.”

This little air of catastrophe mixes with the man returned to the personalities of forgotten precursors, by actors in the making or very little known. Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, John Belushi…They are all there, embodied by Gabriel LaBelle, Dylan O'Brien, Matt Wood, Ella Hunt, Kim Matulaand many others, who cross paths running, jumping, stumbling, behind the scenes of this broadcast of October 11, 1975.

Besides, Saturday Night will be released exactly forty-nine years after this premiere, on October 11 in the US. We do not yet know the French release date of the film, however.

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