“Behind the Curtain: Jason Reitman’s Masterful Dance Between Reality and Imagination in ‘Saturday Night'”
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‘Saturday Night’ (2024)
Doing the Research
When Reitman first signed up to write the project, he began by interviewing everyone who was in the building that day, from the NBC pages to writers to actors to crew members to musicians to Lorne Michaels himself, the creator of what was then called NBC’s Saturday Night.
“We tried to get every story … not only to understand what happened but most importantly to understand how it felt to be in the room,” he said. “And as we interviewed everybody, we learned that none of their stories lined up, and they all contradicted each other.”
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