NEBRASKA CITY – One of the actors in Director Adam Rehmeier’s Snack Shack, which remains in production, will play the role of Saturday Night Live! Creator Lorne Michael in the upcoming movie SNL 1975.

Gabriel LaBelle also played the lead role in Sammy Fabelman, which is a movie loosely based on Steven Spielberg’s childhood.

Snack Shack is a semi-autobiographical childhood experience of its director and writer.  Rehmeier described the movie as a love letter to Nebraska City in June of 2022.

Economic Developer Dan Mauk said he hopes the Pioneer 3 Theater at Nebraska City is ready for a re-fresh and re-open for Snack Shack’s release, which is said to have been delayed by writers and actors strikes.

Snack Shack  is the first movie to use the Nebraska Film Office Cash Grant Fund for what Rehmeier described as a “love letter to Nebraska City.” It recreates the summer of 1991 when two best friends get a chance to run the swimming pool’s concession stand.

The state grant was $200,000 and Nebraska City also provided a $50,000 growth fund grant, indicating a $4 million budget for the movie.

Snack Shack also stars Conor Sherry, who played a recurring role in The Terminal List and in Nickelodeon’s revival of Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Actor David Costabile played in Breaking Bad in 2008 and the Showtime series Billions.

Mika Abdalla plays Brooke in Snack Shack. She previously played the lead spy in the Emmy-nominated Netflix series, Project Mc2.

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