A stage version of 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon from the theatrical arm of Warner Bros. is headed to Broadway , with The Bear actors Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in starring roles.

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis adapted the film about a bank heist gone awry for the live stage, with Rupert Goold directing. Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures will open the play on Broadway in the spring of 2026.

Bernthal will play Sonny Amato and Moss-Bachrach will perform the role of Sal DeSilva. The Oscar-winning film Dog Day Afternoon was set in summer 1972 in New York City and followed one man’s desperate act with a Brooklyn bank hold up that quickly went wrong and generated national attention. In 1975, Al Pacino and John Cazale starred in Sidney Lumet’s Academy Award-winning hostag

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