Michael Cieply: Waiting For ‘Saturday Night,’ The Jason Reitman Dramedy About Comedy
deadline.comLo, the enduring miracle of the film awards year. Just when things begin to look hopeless—and it was looking pretty bleak a month ago—intriguing, maybe even watchable, prospects suddenly sprout.
The movies are like Osiris, that old Egyptian resurrection god: You just can’t keep ‘em down. As August arrives, more than a few adult viewers, unattuned to the ongoing fantasy-and-animation boom, are now peeking around the corner at Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Live origins story.
The film was scheduled last week by Columbia Pictures for release on Oct. 11—the 49th anniversary of NBC‘s first SNL broadcast, back in 1975.
As historical moments go, that may or may not impress the film Academy’s growing body of foreign-based Oscar voters. But for the domestic crowd, especially those in upper age brackets, the birth of an American comedy phenomenon, still alive some five decades later, is compelling.
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