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Jason Reitman's new SNL psuedo-biopic has a trailer, plus, This Week In Movie Posters.

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Jason Reitman’s SNL movie (Saturday Night) released a new batch of images to Vanity Fair when I started this post, and while I can’t just snake their exclusive, the trailer dropped before I finished the post.

That I can share:

Saturday Night opens October 11th, depicting “the behind-the-scenes moments leading up to SNL’s premiere broadcast that aired Oct. 11, 1975.”

The cast includes Dylan O’Brien (as Dan Aykroyd), Lamorne Morris (Garrett Morris), Cory Michael Smith (Chevy Chase), Matt Wood (John Belushi), Ella Hunt (Gilda Radner), Emily Fairn (Laraine Newman) and Kim Matula (Jane Curtin) — plus Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels and Cooper Hoffman as Dick Ebersol.

Lamorne Morris is surprisingly not Garrett Morris’s son, and even though Cooper Hoffman is Philip Seymour’s kid, none of the other castmembers appear to be the children of SNL people (Laraine Newman’s daughter, Hannah Einbinder, was probably too busy with her own show, Hacks). Sorry, this was just the first thing I looked up for whatever reason.

Jason Reitman is of course the son of Ivan, who made Ghostbusters and Stripes and a billion other SNL movies. Jason made Up in the Air and Juno and Young Adult and a few other movies I liked, but also the Ghostbusters movie before last, in which a CGI Harold Ramis showed up from beyond the grave at the end to give it a thumb’s up, which does make me question Jason Reitman’s artistic judgement.

Unknown-ish actors playing famous comedians is always kind of a weird scene, and comedy and hagiography are always a terrible mix. The movie appears to be trying to get around that by being a tense drama. Part of me thinks this show doesn’t need yet another victory lap and another ball fluff for Lorne Michaels, but I also devoured every bit of the Live From New York SNL oral history book, so I’ll probably end up watching it despite myself. At the very least, I’m here for all the stories about Chevy Chase being a prickly asshole and it looks like they nailed that part.

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Now then, onto This Week In Movie Posters.

Welcome to the This Week In Movie Posters, the feature in which we go through all the week’s new movie posters and read way too much into them. Blessed are the paid subscribers, as without them, none of this would be possible. All posters via IMPA.

This poster for Alan at Night made me chuckle. I would bet money that it ends up being one of those festival movies that’s funny in theory but mostly tedious in practice, but still. Points for a funny poster. No synopsis on IMDB yet, so we can’t take bets on the premise, but it looks like they decided to put out the poster first and ask questions later.

Here’s one of a new batch of character posters from Cuckoo, a new horror movie from Neon (who are generally sort of a ballsier, indie-er A24).

Tagline: “Fear its call.”

The cuckoo’s call? Like, the bird? Or the clock? Plus it’s also a synonym for “crazy.” I don’t know, I feel like “cuckoo” has too many meanings for me to know what to fear here.

Dang, she’s all beat up. Did a bird do that? I don’t think birds could beat up an actor from Euphoria this bad (a goose? maybe). Then again, neither could a clock. Honestly this whole campaign has me all discombobulated. I feel like I’m going cuckoo over here!

And here’s one of a new batch from Alien Romulus (don’t ask me why they’re out of order). Ridley Scott isn’t directing this one, which is kind of wild because Ridley Scott directs everything. He directed Prometheus and Alien Covenant. Hell, he’s even directing Gladiator II. And he’s 86!

Anyway, I’m not sure about this spine-through-the-face-mask imagery here. This is an alien known to hug your face and burst through your chest, the spine through the mask feels a little lazy.

Here’s Megan Fox in Subservience. I’m getting Divergent as a horror movie vibes, possibly with robots. It’s Megan Fox as M3gan! Maybe it’s about a humanoid robot that kills you if you try to fuck it?

Fine, I’m curious, let’s check IMDB:

Follows a struggling father who purchases a domestic SIM to help care for his house and family, unaware she will gain awareness and turn deadly.

Okay yeah, basically Megan does M3gan then.

And before you ask, no, Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are not together anymore. Hard to believe, I know. Whenever you see a couple biting each other and talking about sex stuff on the red carpet you think to yourself “this relationship is going to last forever.”