You want to fight? Jake Gyllenhaal is set to lead Amazon Prime Video’s reimagining of the 1989 MGM film “Road House.”Famously starring Patrick Swayze, “Road House” centered on a bouncer with a mysterious past who overhauls a rowdy bar and takes down local corruption in the process.
For the remake, Gyllenhaal plays a former UFC fighter who, per an official synopsis, takes a job as a bouncer at a rough-and-tumble roadhouse in the Florida Keys, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems in this tropical paradise.
Production will start in the Dominican Republic in August 2022.“Road House” will be helmed by Doug Liman and written by Anthony Bagarozzi (“The Nice Guys”) and Charles Mondry.
Joel Silver, who produced the original film, returns to produce the reboot for his company, Silver Pictures.
JJ Hook, Alison Winter, and Aaron Auch will serve as executive producers.The cast includes Billy Magnussen,
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