Lamorne Morris To Play Young Garrett Morris In ‘SNL 1975’ Origin Film
Lamorne Morris is set to play a young Garrett Morris in Saturday Night Live origin film, SNL 1975.
Deadline reported that the film will be made by Sony Pictures and directed by Jason Reitman. SNL 1975 will also star Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, and Matt Wood as John Belushi.
The Hollywood Reporter also listed accompanying cast members for the film. Supplemental cast members include Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman, Cooper Hoffman as ex-NBC executive Dick Ebersol, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Gabriel LaBelle portraying SNL creator Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennot starring as Michaels’ ex-wife, Rosie Shuster, and Kim Matula portraying Jane Curtin.
Reitman and Gil Kenan will handle writing the movie’s screenplay, using interviews conducted with the remaining living cast members of the 1975 team. Additionally, Reitman, Kenan, Jason Blumenfeld, Erica Mills, and Peter Rice are producing the movie.
The film will follow the true story of how SNL’s first episode came to be. Sony Pictures’ upcoming flick will uncover the humble beginnings leading up to Oct. 11, 1975—the day when a couple of young comedians would alter the TV landscape. Detailed as a “revolution that almost wasn’t,” SNL 1975 will take viewers through a journey leading up to the iconic opening phrase, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”
As for SNL 2024, the show just entered its 49th season, with its latest episode featuring Dakota Johnson as host and Justin Timberlake as the musical guest. Timberlake took a moment to perform his comeback single, “Selfish,” and new gospel-inspired number in “Sanctified.”
Both tracks are set to be included on his forthcoming album, Everything I Thought It Was, which will be released on March 15. Timberlake talked to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about his new album and what fans can expect. He also shared a bit about his perspective when creating his new LP.
“It just really feels good— the thoughts and emotions, and feelings that came to me in writing these songs, and the people I collaborated with and got to share these moments with. I feel like I was able, on some of the songs, to look back at the past and have a real, not a refracted, perspective of what it was. There’s never any truth, there’s just everybody’s perspective of what happened, but to really look at it and be able to metabolize and verbalize my perspective on it, I don’t think I’ve ever really done that before.”
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