With Saturday Night Live celebrating its 50th season in fall 2024, the long-running sketch comedy series is planning to go all out. Tangentially, the occasion is also going to be celebrated on the big screen, with Jason Reitman directing a 2024 new movie about the very first episode of SNL, which is titled Saturday Night.
SNL has a long history of movies, but to date, it has been movies based on their popular sketches/characters; think Wayne's World, Superstar and Night at the Roxbury. Saturday Night is instead going to focus on what went on behind the scenes to get the first episode to air.
