<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Kaia Gerber as Jacqueline Carlin, and Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase in "Saturday Night."Hopper Stone/Sony Pictures</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Jason Reitman's "Saturday Night" chronicles the 90 minutes leading to the first broadcast of "SNL."</li><li>The film takes inspiration from real-life situations but modifies them to fit into the narrative.</li></ul><p>Jason Reitman's somewhat true film "<a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/saturday-night-movie-cast-vs-real-people-snl-2024-8">Saturday Night</a>" dramatizes the wild events leading to the first-ever broadcast of "Saturday Night Live."</p><p>The film, now playing in theaters, captures the backstage chaos that occurred 90 minutes before showtime. Reitman and cowriter Gil Kenan's script pulls from many real-life moments, though some of them happened later on the show, rather than premiere night.</p><p>Despite various challenges, creator Lorne Michaels' sketch comedy show made it to air on October 11, 1975. The show, now in its 50th season, has since become a cornerstone of pop culture and is credited with turning comedians like Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi into megastars.</p><p>Here's what "Saturday Night" gets right and wrong about the first night of "SNL."</p>