EXCLUSIVE: After help restart the ghostbusters Sony Pictures franchisee Jason Reitman reunites with the studio to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the premiere of one of television’s most iconic shows. Sources tell Deadline that Reitman is directing an untitled original screenplay for Sony based on true accounts of the opening night Saturday night live. Reitman will work with him again Ghostbusters: Life After Death Co-writer Gil Kenan, who co-writes the screenplay.
The film is set on October 11, 1975, when a wild group of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the true story of what happened behind the scenes that night before the first SNL Shows the retelling of the chaos and magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t there, counting down the minutes in real time to the infamous words “Live From New York, it’s Saturday Night”.
The script is based on an extensive series of interviews that Reitman and Kenan conducted with all the living cast, writers and crew.
Reitman and Kenan are currently in production on the Sony Pictures sequel Ghostbusters: Life After Death, directed by Kenan. After the success of Ghostbusters: Life After DeathReitman and Kenan have signed a full production deal with Sony Pictures.
Along with Reitman and Kenan, longtime partners Jason Blumenfeld and Erica Mills will produce, currently on the Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel.
In addition Ghostbusters: Life After Death, Reitman is the director best known for his award-winning work on Thank you for smoking, Juno, in the sky And young adult. As a producer, Reitman produced Damien Chazelle’s whiplashJean Marc Vallees demolition and the cult hit Jennifer’s body by director Karyn Kusama.
Kenan has directed films such as the Oscar-nominated one monster house (published by Sony Pictures), city schools and last year A boy named Christmas.
Reitman is repped by WME and Alan Wertheimer. Kenan is repped by WME and Robert Offer.
Source: Deadline
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