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Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will make their Broadway debuts subsequent yr in Dog Day Afternoon, a brand new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside and Crazy) primarily based on the true crime that impressed Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-winning 1975 movement image starring Al Pacino and John Cazale.
The play shall be directed by two-time Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold (King Charles III). Bernthal will play Sonny Amato, the character performed by Pacino within the movie, and Moss-Bachrach will painting Sal DeSilva, John Cazale within the film. (The surnames had been totally different within the movie.)
The play is predicted to open on Broadway in spring 2026. Additional casting was not disclosed.
The synopsis: Step again into the sweltering summer time of 1972, New York City—a time when the Vietnam War looms giant, Watergate headlines flood the information, and one man’s determined act captivates the nation. A Brooklyn financial institution holdup rapidly goes improper, and with every gut-wrenching twist that unfolds, chaos ensues that ignites town as they comply with the actions of a person on the sting. Dog Day Afternoon is a uncooked, gritty reminder of what occurs when ardour and desperation collide.
The announcement was made in the present day by Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures (Executive Vice President & Managing Director Mark Kaufman), Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and Patrick Catullo.
“Attica! Attica!” turned a defiant catchphrase after chanted by Al Pacino in ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ (1975)
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The 1975 movie directed by Lumet was written by Frank Pierson primarily based on the Life journal article “The Boys in the Bank” by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore. The journal function chronicles the 1972 theft and hostage scenario led by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile at a Chase Manhattan department in Brooklyn. Produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand, the movie additionally starred James Broderick, Charles Durning and Chris Sarandon as Sonny’s boyfriend who wants Sonny’s cash for gender-affirming surgical procedure.
Bernthal has carried out in additional than 30 theatrical productions, most just lately on the Ojai Theatre Festival the place he produced and starred in a manufacturing of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Martyna Majok’s Ironbound, reverse Marin Ireland. Bernthal additionally starred in Rogue Machine Theatre’s manufacturing of Small Engine Repair which had its New York premiere at MCC in 2013. Bernthal had beforehand starred in Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig (Geffen Playhouse), Langford Wilson’s Fifth of July (New York’s Signature Theatre), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui as “Ui,” (Portland Stage Company), and This is Our Youth (Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C.). On the movie facet, Bernthal at present stars alongside Ben Affleck in The Accountant 2, and alongside Rami Malek within the CIA spy thriller The Amateur. Bernthal just lately wrapped manufacturing for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, starring alongside Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o and Charlize Theron, amongst many different movies.
On TV Bernthal can at present be seen in Disney+ Daredevil: Born Again, reprising his function as Frank Castle/The Punisher and in 2024, Bernthal received his first Emmy award for his function in Season 2 of Hulu’s The Bear. Bernthal additionally starred within the HBO Series We Own This City, AMC’s breakout hit The Walking Dead and Frank Darabont’s Mob City, amongst many others.
Moss-Bachrach has appeared in HBO’s Girls, Netflix’s The Punisher, Disney+’s Andor, Hulu’s The Dropout and FX’s The Bear, in addition to function movies No Hard Feelings, Hold Your Breath, The Lake House, Mona Lisa Smile and Lola Versus. He will subsequent be seen alongside castmates Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn and Vanessa Kirby within the extremely anticipated Matt Shakman-helmed Marvel Cinematic Universe function The Fantastic Four: First Steps, by which he performs Ben Grimm, The Thing.
Director Goold has received two Olivier Awards, and his British productions which have transferred to Broadway embrace the musical American Psycho, James Graham’s play Ink, in addition to Tammy Faye, Patriots, Enron and Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart. Rupert’s first function movie was 2015’s True Story starring James Franco and Jonah Hill, adopted by Judy, written by Tom Edge and starring Renee Zellweger.
Gurgis’ Broadway credit embrace The Motherf***er with the Hat (6 Tony Nominations, together with Best Play) and Tony-nominated Between Riverside and Crazy.
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, which has been creating Dog Day Afternoon, is at present repped on Broadway by The Outsiders, Good Night, and Good Luck; and Real Women Have Curves, and previous to these exhibits had such Broadway productions as Stephen King’s Misery, The Curious Incident of the Dog within the Night-Time, The Bridges of Madison County and the vacation hit Elf. Upcoming initiatives embrace The Lost Boys, and Crazy Rich Asians.