Recreating 'Saturday Night Live' With 'Saturday Night' | Jason Reitman Interview

Jason Reitman returns to discuss the making of “Saturday Night,” his new film spanning the 90 minutes leading up to Lorne Michaels' first episode of “Saturday Night Live.” The film is at the front of the pack for this year's best ensemble featuring Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith and many more taking on the parts of Lorne Michaels and his motley crew of writers and comedians.

Reitman talks about creating the film’s score live on set with Jon Batiste, interviewing everyone at the historic taping before writing the script, the real rush of going live on “SNL” and more.

After the interview, stick around for our review of the film, as well as Kevin’s thoughts on Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” and our thoughts on “Gladiator 2’s” new trailer.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:07:48 - Jason Reitman ‘Saturday Night’ Interview
00:37:54 - ‘Saturday Night’ Review
00:49:09 - ‘Megalopolis’ Reaction
00:59:36 - New Trailers!
01:16:17 - Outro

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[andrew]

Great episode and interview as always! Thanks for the Night Bitch shout-out!

[inawoodenhouse]

I just saw Megalopolis this afternoon and I honestly loved it. it definitely had a Baz Luhrmann flavor to it which is right up my alley

[myp]

Mann Jason reitman....I think I'm gonna have to listen to all his interviews now😂 such great stories

[have_studs_will_travel]

I think "Saturday Night" was the most immersive cinematic experience I've had this year, more than "Dune Part Two". The second time I watched "Saturday Night" I was laughing a lot more. Might see a third time, it's really that good. :)

[DavidPavlis]

This was really a great one, guys! Even though I have only a slight clue what SNL is, I am now really intrigued to see it once it is out.

[prberg]

Fun episode! Going to try to see Megaopolis.. just to experience it. Can't wait to go see Saturday night as well!

[joelanthonylim]

It's shocking that Ella Hunt is this British girl who plays this posh lady in Horizon and then goes bananas as Gilda Radner here in Saturday Night

[ncer]

I cannot wait to see Saturday Night! As for Megalopolis, there were some good ideas and themes in there, but execution was off. People laughed at certain acting choices that weren’t supposed to be funny. Felt like Shia was doing a Paul Rudd impression at times. As long as it was, felt like there’s a director’s cut that would take certain story lines more cohesive.

[carlsax]

I totally agree with Kevin about Megalopolis. It was irritating and exhausting and entirely baffling. I was more bored than I’ve been in a theater in many moons.

[jaimemitra]

I agree with Kevin. I’m glad that Coppola was able to make the story that he’s been wanting to make, but apart from it being a Coppola movie I didn’t feel there was anything special with the world or the goals of the characters. I thought the first 30 minutes or so it was really intriguing but once it went to the colosseum sequence it lost me.

[josemunoz]

Metropolis was horrible, I almost walked out! It was really bad!

[davidjohney]

Saving Private Ryan's Brother Bryan 2

[jonlee]

I think Sean meant to say Sentry not sentinel.

[illuvattar]

Anyone can comment on how Saturday Night is for someone who doesn't have a clue about SNL and has never watched a single thing from it or about it? It seems like it's kinda a inside baseball thing for Americans.

[kommandantklink]

Your friend of the show has not exactly been knocking it out the park lately with outstanding movies. Will there be a good story behind Gladiator 2 or will it be just another movie with good action sequences?