‘Saturday Night’s Jason Reitman & Jon Batiste On Why They “Threw Away The Orchestra” & Made Music “The Villain In The Film” — Contenders Los Angeles

Saturday Night director Jason Reitman and music composer Jon Batiste said at Deadline Contenders Film: Los Angeles that music is the “villain” of the Columbia Pictures film. Batiste said during Saturday’s panel that after several conversations with Reitman, “it became very clear” that Saturday Night’s music “was not going to be a traditional score —