Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach to Headline ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Broadway Adaptation

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach are group for a “The Bear” reunion successful nan Big Apple. Both actors are group to make their respective Broadway debuts successful a shape play adjustment of “Dog Day Afternoon.”

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis will accommodate Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-winning 1975 film starring Al Pacino and John Cazale. Rupert Goold will nonstop nan production, which is expected to unfastened connected Broadway successful outpouring 2026. Bernthal will return connected Pacino’s erstwhile domiciled of Sonny Amato. Moss-Bachrach is starring arsenic Sal DeSilva, first played by Cazale. Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures confirmed nan play to Deadline; nan WB group precocious brought “Good Night, and Good Luck” pinch George Clooney to nan stage, arsenic good arsenic “The Outsiders,” “Real Women Have Curves,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” and “Elf.”

The synopsis for nan “Dog Day Afternoon” play reads: “Step backmost into nan sweltering summertime of 1972, New York City — a clip erstwhile nan Vietnam War looms large, Watergate headlines flood nan news, and 1 man’s hopeless enactment captivates nan nation. A Brooklyn slope clasp up quickly goes wrong, and pinch each gut-wrenching twist that unfolds, chaos ensues that ignites nan metropolis arsenic they travel nan actions of a man connected nan edge. ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ is a raw, gritty reminder of what happens erstwhile passion and desperation collide.”

The original 1975 movie directed by Sidney Lumet from a book written by Frank Pierson was based connected nan Life mag article “The Boys successful nan Bank” by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore. The article chronicled nan 1972 robbery and hostage business led by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile astatine a Chase Manhattan branch successful Brooklyn.

In summation to roles successful “Daredevil: Born Again” and “The Accountant 2,” Bernthal has performed successful much than 30 theatrical productions, astir precocious astatine nan Ojai Theatre Festival wherever he produced and starred successful a accumulation of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Martyna Majok’s “Ironbound” other Marin Ireland. Bernthal besides precocious wrapped accumulation connected Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”

Moss-Bachrach will adjacent beryllium seen successful nan latest play of “The Bear” and MCU movie “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.” He besides antecedently co-starred alongside Bernthal successful “Sharp Stick” and “The Punisher.”