James Franco Offers Update On ‘SNL’ Documentary ‘Saturday Night:’ “It Will Come Out”
By Germain Lussier/March 4, 2013 11:28 am EST
Franco has finally given us that update, and the news is encouraging. Though the film was wrapped up in some rights issues, it has a new distributor and they’re currently figuring out how to release it. “It will come out,” said Franco.
Franco spoke to The Huffington Post about the film:
And then I realized I had all of this access that people had never been granted before. And I thought, Well, heck, I’m not just going to waste this as a class project. This could be something interesting about comedy and creativity and the show. So, we shot a feature and put it together — and then we had to go back and first get all of the performers to sign off, which they did. And then Lorne to sign off. But then we had to get NBC to sign off. And then NBC has some big turnover of executives, so the people who had signed off before were no longer there — so we had to get new people to sign off. And then blah, blah, blah, blah blah.
Then, we sold it to Oscilloscope. And then, really sadly, Adam Yauch died, so then all of the projects with Oscilloscope were kind of tied up in a weird way. So, now we’ve sold it to Focus Features …
Huff Po: Which has the same ownership as NBC and Universal …
So maybe that’s in our favor. So we’re just working out the final logistics, and it will come out. I don’t know if anyone who is featured in the documentary is still on “SNL” [laughs], but there’s a few — Hader — a few people hanging on. But it’s still a very interesting view into that world.
Focus Features sounds like a great place for the film, as they’re quite good at selling niche films like this. This is a movie I’ve been looking forward to for sometime so, hearing the director say it will come out is great news.
