Guy Ritchie to Direct Road House Sequel with Jake Gyllenhaal

Guy Ritchie is connected platform to nonstop the sequel to Amazon MGM’s 2024 Road House remake, reports Variety. The follow-up volition spot Jake Gyllenhaal instrumentality to the pb relation arsenic ex-UFC fighter-turned-bouncer Elwood Dalton.

A Gyllenhaal-led sequel was antecedently confirmed successful May past year, with the announcement coming rapidly successful the aftermath of the remake’s palmy March 2024 release. Road House accumulated implicit 50 cardinal views during its archetypal 2 weekends connected Prime, which made it Amazon MGM Studios’ most-watched produced movie debut ever connected a worldwide ground astatine that time.

2024’s Road House was directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow, Swingers), but Liman instantly appeared improbable to instrumentality for a sequel aft criticising the film’s streaming release.

“My contented connected Road House is that we made the movie for MGM to beryllium successful theaters, everyone was paid arsenic if it was going to beryllium successful theaters, and past Amazon switched it connected america and cipher got compensated,” said Liman astatine the time. “Forget astir the effect connected the manufacture — 50 cardinal radical saw Road House — I didn’t get a cent, Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t get a cent, [producer] Joel Silver didn’t get a cent. That’s wrong.”

According to Gyllenhaal, however, Amazon had been wide Road House was destined for streaming.

Road House 2 volition implicit a trifecta of collaborations betwixt Ritchie and Gyllenhaal, and volition people their 2nd task for Amazon MGM pursuing the awkwardly titled but good received 2023 warfare movie Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant. They’ve besides paired up for the upcoming enactment thriller In the Grey, which additionally stars Henry Cavill, but that movie has nary existent merchandise date.

Further details astir Road House 2 are scant, but it’s being written by Will Beall (Gangster Squad, Bad Boys: Ride oregon Die, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F).

As it stands, there’s small remainder for Guy Ritchie. The manager helmed aggregate episodes of the just-launched Paramount+ bid MobLand (starring Tom Hardy) and his adjacent film, Fountain of Youth, lands connected Apple TV+ aboriginal this month.

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