Over the course of the past five decades, Saturday Night Live grew into one of the most beloved shows on American television, and Sony’s SNL 1975 will explore its origins. This highly-anticipated film finally found its Lorne Michaels in The Fabelmans star Gabriel LaBelle.
SNL 1975 hails from screenwriters Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, and it will trace the origins of one of the most popular sketch comedy shows in history. It will be set on set on October 11, 1975, the night of the very first Saturday Night Live broadcast.
According to its official logline, SNL 1975 will center on a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers who changed television forever. It will retell the chaos and magic of a TV revolution, counting down the minutes to the infamous words, “Live From New York, it’s Saturday Night.”
Gabriel LaBelle will lead the film in the role of the SNL co-creator and long-time producer Lorne Michaels, who’s still running this show almost 50 years later. Rachel Sennott (Bottoms) will join him in the role of Rosie Shuster, while Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza) will play Dick Ebersol.
In addition to co-writing the script, Reitman will also direct the film and produce it alongside Gil Kenan, Jason Blumenfeld, Erica Mills, and Peter Rice.
