When “The Blues Brothers” landed in theaters 40 years ago this week, it was something of a novelty – the first feature film based on characters from “Saturday Night Live,” which had, at that point, only been on the air for five years. And though it was a hit, no one would try again for 12 years, with “Wayne’s World,” after which the floodgates opened. There was one key difference between “Blues Brothers” and the bulk of the “SNL”-inspired films that followed: the show’s creator and longtime producer, Lorne Michaels, was not involved in any way.

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