At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television — and culture — forever. Directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult) and written by Gil Kenan & Reitman, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words….

Starring Willem Dafoe as David Tebet, Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby, Bottoms) as Rosie Shuster, Lamorne Morris (New Girl, Fargo) as Garrett Morris, J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, La La Land) as Milton Berle, Nicholas Braun (Succession) as Jim Henson, Matthew Rhys (The Americans) as Geroge Carlin, Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things, It), Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza) as Dick Ebersol, Cory Michael Smith (May December, Carol) as Chevy Chase, Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Kaia Gerber as Jacqueline Carlin, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans) as Lorne Michaels, Matt Wood as John Belushi, Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, Andrew Barth Feldman, Tommy Dewey, and Emily Fairn.