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Warner Bros. Will Bring 'Dog Day Afternoon' To Broadway, Kicking Live Production Up A Notch

by Jeremy Gerard

Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, the film studio’s live stage play division, has commissioned Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside And Crazy, The Motherf**ker With The Hat) to adapt Sidney Lumet’s 1975 film starring Al Pacino and John Cazale as lovers and famously inept bank robbers seeking money to finance a sex-change operation. Frank Pierson, who died in 2012, wrot…

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:08pm on January 7, 2016