Music: {allcanada} Focus Features Unveils New Lorne Michaels Doc From Morgan Neville Set For Release In April

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{allcanada} Focus Features Unveils New Lorne Michaels Doc From Morgan Neville Set For Release In April

Lorne Michaels

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Focus Features has announced a new documentary on the life of Lorne Michaels, the enigmatic creator of Saturday Night Live, which is set to theaters in the U.S. on April 17.

Titled Lorne, the doc is directed by Morgan Neville, an Oscar, Grammy and Emmy-winning filmmaker who had already been in Michaels' orbit of late as an Emmy-nominated EP on docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night. The impetus for the project was the fact that while SNL is one of the most examined and celebrated shows in television history, the man who built and sustained the institution for nearly five decades has largely remained out of view. The doc reframes a cultural story audiences think they know, offering unprecedented access to the quiet force who shaped American comedy.

Lorne reunites Focus and Neville for a fourth time following the Pharrell Williams Lego biopic Piece By Piece, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, and the Mister Rogers-focused Won't You Be My Neighbor?. SNL alums appearing in the doc include Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, Conan O'Brien, and Chris Rock, among others.

Neville produced the film via A Tremolo Production, alongside Lauren Belfer. Focus holds worldwide rights and Universal Pictures International will handle international distribution for the studio. News of Lorne comes following the 2025 release of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, a biography on the comedy icon from Susan Morrison.

Neville is coming off of Man on the Run, documenting Paul McCartney's decade-long creative surge after the Beatles, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and will be released by Amazon MGM on February 25. He is repped by WME and Cinetic Media.

On the documentary front, Focus recently announced that The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist, from the Academy Award–winning filmmakers behind Navalny and Everything Everywhere All at Once, will release in U.S. on March 27, on the heels of its Sundance premiere.