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    Dylan O'Brien And Lamorne Morris Completely Transform In The First Trailer For The Upcoming Movie About The Early Days Of "SNL"

    By Joseph Longo,

    20 hours ago

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    The latest film from director Jason Reitman ( Ghostbusters: Afterlife , Juno ) is set in the early days of Saturday Night Live , and the trailer just dropped today.

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    The film is aptly titled Saturday Night. It chronicles series creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels as he assembles and (attempts to) corral a rag-tag crew of young comedians starring on a live late-night NBC sketch comedy show. The Fablemans ' star Gabriel LaBelle plays Michaels.

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    So many recognizable actors appear in the film, which is set in 1975. They're mostly playing SNL 's original cast members, the team behind the show, or their spouses or partners: Dylan O'Brien , May December 's Cory Michael Smith, Dickinson 's Ella Hunt, Lamorne Morris , Rachel Sennott, Cooper Hoffman, Kaia Gerber, Nicholas Braun, Willem Dafoe, No Hard Feelings ' Andrew Barth Feldman, Finn Wolfhard, Jon Batiste, J.K. Simmons...the list goes on.

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    You can check out the cast and who they're playing here .

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    Many are nearly unrecognizable in costume, including O'Brien as cast member Dan Aykroyd.

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    Same for Lamorne Morris as fellow cast member Garrett Morris...

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    ...and Ella Hunt as the iconic Gilda Radner among others.

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    So watch the full trailer below:

    Saturday Night will be released in theaters on Oct. 11.

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