Back in December of 2008, James Francofilmed a behind-the-scenesSaturday Night Livedocumentary, focusing on the week leading up to an episode hosted by actor John Malkovich. Originally intended to be a seven-minute short for an NYU grad school assignment, the doc blossomed into a 90-minute film that screened to critical acclaim at the South by Southwest and Tribeca film festivals in 2010. While the project has been in studio limbo for the past few years, Franco has finally found a home for the documentary on Hulu Plus, where it will stream starting this Friday, September 26th.
As Paste reports, the actor-filmmaker posted the news to his Instagram accounton Wednesday, accompanied by a reliably bizarre picture of him screaming at the camera while sporting a shaved head.
Its something Im very proud of, and it got a great response at the festivals we took it to, Francotold The Huffington Postin an interview from March 2013. I realized I had all of this access that people had never been granted before. And I thought,Well, heck, Im not just going to waste this as a class project. This could be something interesting about comedy and creativity and the show.
Franco said the delay boiled down to executiveshifts atNBC executives and issues with Oscilloscope Laboratories, the independent film distribution company (co-founded by late Beastie BoyAdam Yauch) that originally bought the project before it was sold to Focus Features.
So, we shot a feature and put it together, Franco continues, andthenwe had to go back and first get all of the performers to sign off, which they did. AndthenLorne [Michaels] to sign off. Butthenwe had to get NBC to sign off. AndthenNBC has some big turnover of executives, so the people who had signed off before were no longer there so we had to getnewpeople to sign off.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.
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