Lamorne Morris alternatives to bridging loansis 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 197

5 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!”

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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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