- LOS ANGELES — English filmmaker Guy Ritchie is once again joining forces with
actor Jake Gyllenhaal as he is set to direct the sequel to ‘Road House’.
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- Jake Gyllenhaal will reprise his lead role as ex-UFC fighter
Dalton in the film, reports ‘Variety’.
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- ‘Road House 2’ marks the third collaboration between Ritchie
and Gyllenhaal and their second for Amazon MGM Studios following ‘Guy Ritchie’s
The Covenant’. The filmmaker and the Oscar and Tony-nominated actor also
collaborated on the forthcoming action thriller ‘In the Grey’.
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- Will Beall (‘Bad Boys Ride or Die’, ‘Beverly Hills Cop Axel
F’) is writing the script for the sequel, plot details for which are being kept
under wraps.
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- As per ‘Variety’, producers include Atlas Entertainment’s
Charles Roven and Alex Gartner, as well as Gyllenhaal for his Nine Stories
Productions with Josh McLaughlin. Ivan Atkinson will executive produce.
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- ‘Road House’ is a reboot of the 1989 classic starring
Patrick Swayze, and followed Gyllenhaal as a former UFC fighter struggling to
make ends meet. After the owner of a Florida Keys roadhouse finds him sleeping
in his car, Dalton becomes the bar’s bouncer and finds himself roped into a war
of outlaws and bikers (including real-life mixed martial artist and first-time
actor, Conor McGregor) and a developer determined to build a lavish resort for
“rich a”.
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- The movie was viewed as a success for Amazon MGM and the
studio announced a sequel was in development last summer during its inaugural
Upfronts presentation. The film launched on Prime Video last March and broke
records for the streamer — attracting nearly 80 million worldwide viewers in
its first eight weeks to become the studio’s “most-watched produced film debut
ever on a worldwide basis,” per then-studio chief Jennifer Salke.
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