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Side-By-Sides Of The Actors Cast In The Major New Movie About The Early Days Of "SNL"

New Girl star Lamorne Morris will play SNL legend Garrett Morris.

SNL 1975 is an upcoming film by director Jason Reitman (Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Juno) which will chronicle the origins of Saturday Night Live and its premiere in 1975 on NBC. It seems the film is shaping up to have a star-studded cast, as several notable actors are playing the sketch comedy titans.

So here are side-by-sides of each actor and the SNL legends they're playing:

The Fabelmans star Gabriel LaBelle as SNL creator Lorne Michaels:

Bottoms star Rachel Sennott as original SNL writer and Michaels' ex-wife Rosie Shuster (as seen here in 1979 with Dan Aykroyd):

Licorice Pizza star Cooper Hoffman as NBC exec Dick Ebersol:

Kim Matula as original cast member Jane Curtin:

Emily Fairn as original cast member Laraine Newman:

Dickinson's Ella Hunt as original cast member Gilda Radner:

Dylan O'Brien as original cast member Dan Aykroyd:

New Girl star Lamorne Morris as original cast member Garrett Morris:

May December star Cory Michael Smith as original cast member Chevy Chase:

Newcomer Matt Wood as original cast member John Belushi (who is seen here in a 1976 SNL skit with Candice Bergen):

john belushi sitting on a stool

Nicholas Podany as future SNL cast member Billy Crystal

Tommy Dewey as SNL's first head writer Michael O'Donoghue

Nicholas Bruan as Muppets creator Jim Henson:

Kaia Gerber as Chevy Chase's then-wife Jacqueline Carlin

Andrew Barth Feldman as SNL writer and talent coordinator Neil Levy:

Finn Wolfhard has reportedly been cast as an NBC Page.

Person in a black suit with tie poses at a movie event

J.K. Simmons as comedian Milton Berle:

Taylor Gray as original SNL writer Al Franken:

Jon Batiste as the show's first musical guest Billy Preston:

Willem Dafoe as as NBC's talent relations vice president David Tebet:

Additionally, Joe Chrest has been cast as producer Herb Sargent, Mcabe Gregg as original SNL writer Tom Davis, and Billy Bryk in an undisclosed role.

This post will be updated as further casting announced for SNL 1975 are revealed.