Graham Phillips ("The Good Wife") on the set of Colin Jost's "Staten Island Summer." (Staten Island Advance photo)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- "Saturday Night Live" head writer and Weekend Update host Colin Jost may premiere his star-studded feature film about Staten Island not in theaters but online, a source familiar with the production told The Wrap.

The coming-of-age comedy based on Jost's own childhood here, "Staten Island Summer," will debut on Netflix on July 30, the source said.

It stars fellow "SNL" comedians Bobby Moynihan, Will Forte, Fred Armisen and Cecily Strong, along with Ashley Greene of "Twilight" fame and John DeLuca. Other actors include comedian Jim Gaffigan and Wu-Tang's Method Man.

The news comes a day ahead of Jost's appearance on Staten Island for Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden's Neptune Ball Friday night.

If true, the online debut would put Jost's film, produced by "SNL" head honcho Lorne Michaels, in the company of other successful comedy shows and movies exclusively on Netflix including "Arrested Development," "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" and the cult classic prequel of "Wet Hot American Summer."

On the other hand, it would have been exciting to see Staten Island on the big screen.

In a conversation with Jost earlier this month, the Grymes Hill native said he expected the movie to premiere "late June or beginning of July," but was vague on any other details. He did not respond to a request for confirmation this morning. Here's the rest of the interview:

So what's the status of "Staten Island Summer?"

We're going to premiere it in New York and trying to figure out if we can do a screening on Staten Island. I'm proud of it and I'm excited. It shows off Staten Island really well.

What do you mean by that?

I love Staten Island. I had a great wonderful childhood here. I was at the Great Kills Swim Club 13 hours a day, between swim practice, hanging out friends till they would kick us out. And lifeguarding was the same thing but a different world. It's a good place, so I think in the movie, I wanted to have all the good things. We've got Method Man from the Wu-Tang Clan, an ambiguous mafia dad, you know. And mostly just the things we all have in a suburban childhood and adolescence. It's pretty universal, I think.

Seems like a good way to spend the summer. So, how do think this season of 'Saturday Night Live' went?

It went well. I was excited about it. It definitely felt like a more comfortable season. For Weekend Update, it was more finding out who I am in real life. And I got used to the physical mechanics of it. I wanted to figure out how to tell jokes that were in my voice -- jokes that were topics I cared about. So it was a good year of growth. I mean there's plenty that I need to work on, but it was a solid year of growth. And (co-host Michael) Che is a guy I like to joke around with in real life, so that helps.

And how about writing for the rest of the show? A lot of people were calling this a rebuilding year -- how do you think that went?

All the writers were all learning to write for our voices. The rest of the cast in general had a really good year and grew a lot. We brought everyone out for those "Update" segments, so that all felt really strong this year. We got some fun new voices like Pete Davidson and Leslie Jones, and then Kate [McKinnon] and and Cecily [Strong] doing character jokes on "Update" too. Those were all really good.

What were some of your favorite jokes to tell on 'Update'?

That's tough. On the last show we had that one about Chinese soldiers not being able to use the Apple watches their kids were making. That felt like a nice, true joke. And then the ones about "The Jinx," because it felt like a different kind of joke. It came from the way I actually felt, like when i watched the show. It felt closer to standup. And then there were a couple jokes that touched on my dad being really distant...it was great because my dad and I have a great relationship. I just liked the idea of joking about that.

Yeah there were a bunch of jokes you seemed a lot more comfortable telling this year -- like the one about the gay train. I think that was my favorite. ("During the Supreme Court hearing on the Constitutionality of gay marriage, Justice Samuel Alito asked if homosexuals are allowed to marry, what would happen if a group of two men and two women tried to apply for a marriage license. Well, Sam, I'm no legal expert, but they would probably tell them 'no' because that's polygamy and it's illegal and also not at all the same thing. So let's stick to the cast at hand and try not to turn this whole thing into some kind of gay word problem. If the gay marriage train leaves Massachusetts at 3pm and the traditional marriage train leaves Tennessee at 6 p.m. it doesn't matter because look around you, everyone's already on board the gay train.")

Oh, thank you. Yeah, I was very happy to get to do that, it was a good one. Pete Schultz wrote that one.

Kenan Thompson just had this great interview with Marc Maron, and he was describing an average week of pitching ideas in Lorne Michael's office, and how he collaborates with writers like you on all these ideas. It was really interesting to hear that side of it. How would you describe the 'SNL' process, as a writer?

Yeah, I just listened to that interview, it was good. The process is a very collaborative one in general. It's sort of like college because the writers and cast are sharing offices -- like sharing dorm rooms. I think the quality of the decorations is similar, too. But I probably decorated my office worse than my college dorm. But yeah, Kenan and I shared an office for like eight years. We wrote a bunch of stuff together through the years. I think anything you put him in is great. He's someone everyone always wants in their sketches. Some of the other collaborations I got to work on was like the one with Cecily and Vanessa, where they're porn stars selling products. They're just such good performers so that was really enjoyable.

All the cold opens (editor's note: The "Live, from New York!" segments for the uninitiated) were fun this year, too. Like the one on the Capitol steps where we did the School House Rock, "How the Bill Becomes a Law." And I loved the deflategate Tom Brady sketch. All those topical stories I get to work on.

Outside of 'Weekend Update,' do you prefer that kind of 'current event' humor over other sketches?

To some extent, yes. I like doing both, and I think I should do things that are more current events, but that's what's harder to keep up on. I do have an obligation to do those. But I also like doing things that are weird and goofy. That's the part of our show that I always liked growing up.

Are we going to see any of that when you host the Neptune Ball?

I certainly hope it will be a night of laughs! I wont be doing any dramatic readings or anything like that, I'll mostly draw on Staten Island and Snug Harbor, and I'll think of things to joke about specifically for that event. It should be fun since it's a specific audience.

-- Tickets for the 32nd Annual Neptune Ball are $275 per person and can be purchased in advance by calling 718-425-3525, visiting Snug-Harbor.org, or going to BrownPaperTickets.com/event/1611446. Please reserve by June 5, 2015.

-- Tickets for the entertainment and award ceremony portion of the program only are $25 at BrownPaperTickets.com/event/1611446 or at the door