How ‘Saturday Night’ editors dialed up the anxiety as their own deadline approached
LA Times“Saturday Night” is the story of a team anxious to meet a deadline. As film editors Nathan Orloff and Shane Reid recall, director Jason Reitman and his cast and crew began shooting “Saturday Night” in March and finished in May. “It needed that energy from us.” Heading into “Saturday Night,” Orloff and Reid weren’t strangers to each other, or to Reitman. Orloff recalls Jason Reitman singing Reid’s praises even before he helped pair the two cutters for the first time on this year’s “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” directed by “Saturday Night” co-writer Gil Kenan, on which Reitman was a writer and producer. “Jason really loved having two editors on ‘Frozen Empire,’ especially because of the speed of it, and he decided he would need two editors on ‘Saturday Night’ as well,” Orloff says.
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