The first trailer has just dropped for director Doug Liman’s Road House reboot, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and UFC champion Conor McGregor.
It’s a new take on the 1989 original movie starring Patrick Swayze, with Gyllenhaal’s character playing a former UFC fighter-turned-bouncer in the film.
The film describes itself as an “adrenaline-fueled reimagining of the 80s cult classic,” and the story follows ex-UFC fighter Dalton (Gyllenhaal), who “takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.”
To add a bit of politics to the mix, though, Liman actually plans to boycott the film’s SXSW premiere as a protest to Amazon MGM who are refusing to give it a theatrical release. Here’s what he had to say:
When Road House opens the SXSW film festival, I won’t be attending. The movie is fantastic, maybe my best, and I’m sure it will bring the house down and possibly have the audience dancing in their seats during the end credits. But I will not be there.
Ooft, those are strong words! It’s great that Liman is seriously proud of what he seemingly achieved with this film – and from the trailer below, it looks like great fun despite me being too young to have watched the one – but it does put a little bit of a downer on the whole thing.
Other members of the cast for Road House include Billy Magnussen (No Time To Die), Daniela Melchior (The Suicide Squad), Gbemisola Ikumelo (A League of Their Own), Lukas Gage (Euphoria), Hannah Love Lanier (The Tiny Mighty Club), Travis Van Winkle (You), B.K. Cannon (Why Women Kill), Arturo Castro (Broad City), Dominique Columbus (Ray Donovan), Beau Knapp (The Lost Symbol), Bob Menery (Full Send Podcast), Joaquim de Almeida (Fast X), Darren Barnet (Agents of SHIELD), Kevin Carroll (Showtime’s Let the Right One In), and JD Pardo (Mayans M.C.).
According to Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke said:
Road House is a homerun for us. Not only is it a nod to fans of the original, but it is also a big, fun, broad audience movie. We are thrilled to collaborate with Joel, Doug, and this great cast led by Jake Gyllenhaal, and for them to come together to reimagine the classic MGM film as an action-packed adventure for our global audience.
Road House will be out on Amazon Prime Video on March 21st.
Source: GeekTyrant
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