Adam Driver will host “Saturday Night Live” on Dec. 9, joined by Olivia Rodrigo as musical guest, while the Dec. 16 episode will feature host Kate McKinnon and musical guest Billie Eilish.
The Dec. 9 episode will mark Adam Driver’s fourth time hosting “SNL“; he previously appeared on the late night show in 2016, 2018 and 2020. He can soon be seen playing Enzo Ferrari in the Michael Mann-directed biopic “Ferrari,” which hits theaters on Dec. 25.
Rodrigo, who first performed on “SNL” in 2021, recently picked up six Grammy nominations for “Guts,” her second album, which she will take on a world tour beginning in 2024.
McKinnon will make her “SNL” hosting debut on Dec. 16, a milestone often taken on by former cast members of the show. She left “SNL” in 2022 after working on the show for 10 years, during which she was nominated for 10 Emmys, winning two. Earlier this year, she appeared in Warner Bros.’ “Barbie” movie, playing Weird Barbie.
Eilish returns to “SNL” for the third time after first serving as musical guest in 2019 and pulling double duty as both host and guest in 2021. She wrote the “Barbie” song “What Was I Made For?,” which earned her five Grammy nominations, this year, along with another for best pop duo/group performance alongside Labrinth for “Never Felt So Alone.”
As previously announced, the Dec. 2 episode will be hosted by Emma Stone, who is currently starring in the Showtime series “The Curse” and will soon be seen in “Poor Things.” Noah Kahan will be the musical guest.
Dec. 02 2023 |
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May. 24 2023 |
Two-time Academy Award nominee Adam Driver, who will soon be starring as Enzo Ferrari in a biopic of the Italian automobile magnate, will serve as the honorary starter for the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday.
Driver perhaps most famously played Kylo Ren in the three most recent Star Wars films, and he was nominated for Academy Awards for his work in “BlacKkKlansman” and “Marriage Story.” Driver also has received four Primetime Emmy nominations for the comedy-drama “Girls” and his guest appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in 2020.
“Adam is going to experience one of the most exhilarating, powerful and exciting moments in all of sports as he stands atop the flag stand and waves the green flag to officially start the world’s greatest race,” Indianapolis Motor Speedway President J. Douglas Boles said in making the announcement Tuesday.
Driver grew up in Mishawaka in northern Indiana before serving in the armed forces with the Marines. He returned from duty and enrolled at the University of Indianapolis before auditioning for Julliard, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
His other film credits include “House of Gucci” by Ridley Scott, Steven Soderbergh’s “Logan Lucky” and “Silence” by Martin Scorsese. He also appeared on and off Broadway in “Look Back in Anger” and the revival of Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This.”
Given its traditional Memorial Day weekend placement, the Indy 500 is steeped in military pageantry. There are enlistment ceremonies, helicopters and other equipment on display, and the playing of “Taps” just before the call to start the engines.
Driver enlisted in the Marines shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and served in the 1st Marines as a mortarman for nearly three years. After an injury while mountain biking, he was medically discharged as a lance corporal and went on to co-found Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that stages theater and musical performance for members of the military.
“Race day is full of meaning for our drivers, our fans across the globe and most especially our active-duty military members and veterans,” Boles said. “Adam is not only a star recognized across the world but also a former U.S. Marine who will be a very fitting addition to ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.'”
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May. 13 2022 |
Francis Ford Coppola has set his cast for his self-funded movie Megalopolis.
Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne and Jon Voight will star in the project that is written and directed by the Godfather filmmaker. The logline for the film reads: “The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius, and conflicted love.”
Coppola is independently producing the movie, which is budgeted at just under $100 million. Coppola talked to THR about self-funding the project at a 50th-anniversary event for The Godfather, saying, “There’s a certain way everyone thinks a film should be, and it rubs against the grain if you have another idea. People can be very unaccepting, but sometimes the other idea represents what’s coming in the future. That is worthy of being considered.”
Coppola is repped by Hirsch Wallerstein, which is handling sales on the movie.
Driver, repped by Sloane Offer, was last seen in back-to-back Ridley Scott features, The Last Duel and House of Gucci. His upcoming projects include Noah Baumbach’s Netflix drama White Noise, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s book of the same name, and Sony’s sci-fi thriller 65.
Emmanuel is repped by ICM Partners, Untitled Entertainment, A&J Artists in the U.K. and Goodman Genow. The Game of Thrones and Fast & Furious star will next be seen in Screen Gems horror The Bride.
Fishburne, who worked with Coppola on Apocalypse Now, is repped by CAA, Landmark Artists and Del Shaw. Whitaker is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment.
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May. 25 2021 |
Sony Pictures has set a summer 2022 release date for 65, a film starring Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt. The pic will hit theaters nearly a year from now, on May 13, with plot details still being kept under wraps.
Written and directed by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods — who together scripted A Quiet Place — 65 marks a reunion for the duo with producer Sam Raimi. They wrote and directed an episode of his Quibi series 50 States of Fright last year.
If plans hold amid the Covid-sparked release-date turmoil of recent — and, likely, future — weeks and months, 65 would open against an untitled Blumhouse project from Universal. That’s the only wide opener set for May 13, 2022, thus far.
Deborah Liebling and Zainab Azizi also produce alongside, Woods and Raimi. Doug Merrifield is the executive producer.
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Mar. 06 2021 |
The nominations for the Saturn Awards just dropped, and Adam Driver has been nominated! Driver’s nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Film for his role as Kylo Ren in 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Driver is up against Chris Evans (Knives Out), Bill Hader (It Chapter Two), Ian McDiarmid (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), Robert Pattinson (Tenet), and Donnie Yen (Mulan).
In addition to Driver’s nomination, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was also nominated for Best Science Fiction Release, Best Actress in a Film (Daisy Ridley), Best Film Director (J.J. Abrams), Best Film Screenplay (J.J. Abrams, Chris Terrio), Best Film Editing (Maryann Brandon, Stefan Grube), Best Film Production Design (Rick Carter, Kevin Jenkins), Best Film Composer (John Williams), Best Film Costume (Michael Kaplan), Best Film Make-Up (Amanda Knight, Neal Scanlan), and Best Film Visual / Special Effects (Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach, Dominic Tuohy).
A date is yet to be set for the ceremony, but expected later this year.
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Jul. 29 2020 |
He’s definitely not taking it slow. Adam Driver has been nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series! Driver was recognized for his work hosting SNL, which included such memorable sketches as the sequel to the Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base skit (which gifted us Randy the Intern), the songs “Slow,” “Medieval Times,” and “Marrying Ketchups,” among others. Driver has been previously nominated three times for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, all for his work on HBO’s Girls. He will compete against Fred Willard (Modern Family), Dev Patel (Modern Love), Eddie Murphy (Saturday Night Live), Brad Pitt (Saturday Night Live), and Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel).
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May. 01 2020 |
Adam Driver will star in an adaptation of “Yankee Comandante,” Variety has learned.
“Mud” director Jeff Nichols is writing and helming the pic, marking a reunion for the pair, who worked together on 2016’s “Midnight Special.” While production start dates are up in the air due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shuttered the industry, sources say shooting is expected to begin in 2021.
Imperative Entertainment and 30West are in discussions with select studios about the project, with the package shopped to distributors earlier this week.
The film is based on David Grann’s New Yorker article about two people who rose to the rank of comandante during the Cuban Revolution. One was Che Guevara. The other was a man from Ohio.
Driver most recently starred in Netflix’s “Marriage Story” and Amazon’s “The Report,” with his role in the former earning him several awards nominations, including an Oscar nod. He also reprised his portrayal of Kylo Ren in the final installment in the Skywalker saga, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.”
Prior to industrywide production shutdowns caused by the coronavirus crisis, Driver was shooting Ridley Scott’s latest period drama, “The Last Duel,” opposite Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Jodie Comer.
Best known for his original dramas like “Midnight Special,” “Take Shelter” and “Mud,” Nichols most recently helmed the critically acclaimed “Loving.” The film earned rave reviews and an Oscar nomination for Ruth Negga.
Driver is repped by Gersh and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern. Nichols is repped by CAA and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson and Christopher.
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Oct. 22 2019 |
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