News about Jason Reitman

Willem Dafoe, an Oscar-nominated actor, is among the cast of the forthcoming SNL 1975 origin film starring Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard and model Kaia Gerber. According to Deadline, Dafoe will be playing late David Tebet, who served as the vice president of talent relations for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), when SNL first launched. Jason Reitman, who co-wrote with Gil Kenan on a screenplay, is directing the film, which tells the true tale of the lead up to the first Saturday Night Live episode.

People were made to laugh on Saturday Night Live, but a new film would focus on the drama that inspired the late night staple in the 1970s. Jason Reitman, 46, who has already cast Ella Hunt to play the late Gilda Radner, Rebecca Fairn as Laraine Newman, and Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, has now decided which actors will play the male characters in The Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players. Gabriel LaBelle, 21, best known for his role as Sammy, a budding filmmaker in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmen, will play creator and producer Lorne Michaels.