{"id":72395,"date":"2024-01-31T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/introducing-the-snl-1975-cast-and-their-real-life-counterparts\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T13:45:48","slug":"introducing-the-snl-1975-cast-and-their-real-life-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/introducing-the-snl-1975-cast-and-their-real-life-counterparts\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the \u2018SNL 1975\u2019 Cast and Their Real-Life Counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-journey-hook=\"client-content\" data-testid=\"BodyWrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Nearly 50 years into its reign on NBC, <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> is going back to the beginning. Oscar-nominated filmmaker <strong>Jason Reitman<\/strong> will direct and executive produce <em>SNL 1975<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/saturday-night-live-movie-lorne-michaels-gabriel-labelle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a film about the sketch series\u2019 origins<\/a> that goes behind the scenes of the famed Studio 8H. Written by Reitman and his <em>Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/em> collaborator <strong>Gil Kenan<\/strong>, the film is <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/01\/the-fablemans-gabriel-labelle-lorne-michaels-snl-1975-cooper-hoffman-rachel-sennott-1235797505\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> based on \u201cextensive series of interviews conducted by Reitman and Kenan with all the living cast, writers and crew,\u201d about <em>SNL<\/em>\u2019s first broadcast on October 11, 1975. The project will feature portrayals of all the original Not Ready for Primetime Players, from <strong>Chevy Chase<\/strong> to Gilda Radner, as well as <strong>Lorne Michaels<\/strong>, the comedic messiah who cast them. Meet the fresh-faced cast bringing television\u2019s trailblazers to life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/photos\/snl-1975-cast-and-their-real-life-counterparts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 50 years into its reign on NBC, Saturday Night Live is going back to the beginning. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jason Reitman will direct and executive produce SNL 1975, a film about the sketch series\u2019 origins that goes behind the scenes of the famed Studio 8H. Written by Reitman and his Ghostbusters: Afterlife collaborator Gil Kenan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6261,6260,6049,6051,75,26,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-72395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-chevy-chase","9":"tag-gilda-radner","10":"tag-jason-reitman","11":"tag-lorne-michaels","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-saturday-night-live","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}