Stars Of Saturday Night Attend The TIFF Premiere

The new film Saturday Night held its world premiere last night, September 10, at the Toronto International Film Festival. Stars of the film, Dylan O’Brien, Gabriel LaBelle Nicolas Braun. Kirsty Woodward, Ella Hunt, Kim Matula, and Lamorne Morris were all on hand at Roy Thomson Hall to celebrate their new film.

“Director Jason Reitman captures the frenzied lead-up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live as a motley bunch of then-unknown and untrained young comedians prepare to step into a revolutionary spotlight that will change history and make them all stars. It’s the mid-1970s, and a flipbook of Watergate, Vietnam, and rising counterculture make everything old in America feel broken, and everything new feel scary as hell. And now, yet another certainty is about to crack. Because in 90 minutes’ time, live, from New York, it’s Saturday Night.

SATURDAY NIGHT dives headfirst into the frenzied hour-and-a-half before a clutch of unknown, untrained, unruly young comedians took over network television and transformed the culture. Saturday Night Live would go on to become the late-night institution that brought John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and later Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, and others to our screens. But tonight, it’s barely contained madness backstage, with Canadian Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) desperately trying to channel the chaos towards a vision even he’s not sure of.”

Saturday Night will open in theaters on October 11.

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