‘The Fablemans’ Star Gabriel LaBelle To Play Lorne Michaels In Sony’s ‘SNL 1975’, Cooper Hoffman And Rachel Sennott Also Join Ensemble

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Live origin pic is gaining a ton of momentum as Gabriel LaBelle is set to play Lorne Michaels, Cooper Hoffman is on board to play Dick Ebersol and Rachel Sennott will play Rosie Shuster. Reitman will write and direct.

The film is based on ased on the real-life behind the scenes accounts of the opening night of Saturday Night Live. Script was written by Reitman and Gil Kenan.

On October 11th, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the true story of what happened that night behind the scenes in the moments leading up to the first broadcast of SNL. The chaos and magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, as we countdown the minutes in real time to the infamous words, Live From New York, it’s Saturday Night. The screenplay is based on an extensive series of interviews conducted by Reitman and Kenan with all the living cast, writers, and crew.

Reitman, Kenan, Jason Blumenfeld, Erica Mills and Peter Rice are producing.

The film marks LaBelle first major studio pic since his breakout role as the lead of Steven Spielberg’s semi-auto biographic film The Fablemans. The film earned LaBelle stellar reviews and he now gets portray another legendary iconic figure in this film.

Hoffman burst onto the scene starring in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Licorice Pizza. His performance received critical acclaim as well as nominations for both the Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe Awards. He also won the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance. Hoffman will next be seen in the feature Wildcat, directed by Ethan Hawke, which premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival to rave reviews. He recently filmed Old Guy, starring alongside Christoph Waltz.

Sennott is a writer/performer who was most recently seen in Bottoms, a feature film via MGM, in which Sennott not only co-leads opposite Ayo Edebiri, but also co-produced and co-wrote with Emma Seligman. Her other credits include HBO’s The Idol, A24’s slasher film Bodies Bodies Bodies. Her other upcoming projects include starring in Prime Video’s thriller Holland, Michigan.

LaBelle is repped by CAA, Play Management, Canopy Media Partners, Sloane Offer Weber Dern and Viewpoint. Hoffman is repped by CAA and Robert F. Marshall at Greenberg Glusker. Sennott is repped by WME, Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment, The Lede Company and Yorn, Levine, Barnes