Reitman replied that, for the most part, he took the criticism in stride. "I'm trying to balance it because, in my head, I know, 'Alright, I'm getting a Chevy Chase moment that's

“Saturday Night,” released Sept. 27, chronicles the chaotic lead-up to the 1975 premiere of the historic late-night sketch show. The film stars Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Ella Hunt, Cory Michael Smith, Lamorne Morris, Matt Wood, Nicholas Braun and Emily Fairn.

I think Chevy Chase did too. To be clear, it’s not important to me that Chase liked the flick. The infamous curmudgeon/jerk/racist is lucky a generation’s worth of tall white dudes see him as a comedy icon.

Director Jason Reitman set out to tell the madcap true story of the creation of the comedy institution that is Live in his recent film . It captured the 90 minutes that led up to what we saw when the cameras began rolling on the show’s first episode,

During a recent episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast, the director revealed Chevy Chase ‘s reaction to the movie, prefacing, “Chevy loves to say the thing you’re not supposed to say.” The film follows the chaotic 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of SNL in 1975.

I’m trying to balance it because in my head I know I’m getting a Chevy Chase moment that’s one thousand percent only for me right now and from a comedy point of view, tha

"I just spent, like, two years of my life re-creating this moment and trying to capture Chevy perfectly," the filmmaker tells Dana Carvey and David Spade The post Jason Reitman Says Chevy Chase Told Him He ‘Should be Embarrassed’ of ‘SNL’ Movie appeared first on TheWrap.

Chevy Chase gave Saturday Night director Jason Reitman his own 'Chevy Chase was a jerk to me' story after watching the SNL biopic.

M aking a movie about the institution that is Saturday Night Live has to be challenging. For starters, the audience comes to the movie with its own preconceived notions about the