{"id":23475,"date":"2024-10-10T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=23475"},"modified":"2024-10-17T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:48:02","slug":"saturday-night-cast-actors-vs-real-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/saturday-night-cast-actors-vs-real-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Cast Actors Vs. Their Real-Life Counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday Night<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, the Jason Reitman-directed SNL<\/em> biopic, is hitting theaters this weekend and getting great reviews for its cast. It tells the story of October 11, 1975, the first night that Saturday Night Live<\/em> – then titled Saturday Night<\/em> – aired. Now, it’s taken for granted that SNL <\/em>seemingly always has been and always will be around, especially to anyone born in the ’70s and later. But there was no guarantee of its success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the night it debuted, however, Saturday Night<\/em> was subversive, unproven, and destined to fail. As Cooper Hoffman’s Dick Ebersol says in the first trailer, “We’re 90 minutes of live television by a group of 20-year-olds who have never made anything! Do you ever wonder why they said yes? A counterculture show starring total unknowns with zero narrative and even less structure! They want [us] to fail.<\/em>” In an era rife with sitcoms and a few scripted dramas and action shows like Dallas, M.A.S.H., and The Dukes of Hazzard, NBC execs thought there was no way audiences would understand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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