Saturday Night is a chaotic, fictionally sythentized narrative following SNL’s first live show.
We got to speak to a bunch of writers, some of whom have passed away since Anne Beatts.
We spoke with what’s left of the band that was playing that night.
And so it meant that they were able to remember to paint a picture.
And we just started feeling like we were gorging on really great bits of information."
So it didn’t happen that night.
Milton Berle hosted an episode a couple of shows later.
It was a little bit further down in the season."
That’s fundamentally the core theme at the center of this story."
He did disappear that night.
There was a desperate race to venture to get him to sign his contract.
You could feel it.
We wanted to be able to explore both the opportunity and the tragedy of some of that genius.
And so a sequence on the ice rig allowed us to do that."
It was trying to hold all of this together.
We were starting to find a path to illuminate the arcs that a lot of characters have."
you could only do so much on a page.
There was an energy on set that I’ve never experienced."
So, definitely, that existed on set… We were [also] shooting on 16-millimeter film… We wrote this thing like maniacs.
We just went at it."
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Saturday Nightstarts playing in theaters everywhere on Friday, October 11.
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