Ritchie is replacing the Doug Liman director, who expressed his frustration for the streaming launch of Road House’s original film.
Guy Ritchie will direct the sequel to the movie Road House (The Hard) with Jake Gyllenhaal Returning to his main role as the former UFC Dalton fighter.
Road House 2 will be the third collaboration between Ritchie and Gyllenhaal, and the second to Amazon MGM Studios After The Covenant. The filmmaker and actor nominated for an Oscar and Tony also collaborated in the action thriller to premiere in the Gray.
Will Beall will write the script of the sequel, whose details of the plot remain secret. Among the producers are Charles Roven and Alex Gartner of Atlas Entertainment, as well as Gyllenhaal for its producer Nine Stories Productions with Josh McLaughlin. Ivan Atkinson will be the executive producer.
What is Road House about
Road House, a new version of the 1989 classic starring Patrick Swayzethe film follows Gyllenhaal as a former UFC driver who struggles to reach the end of the month. After the owner of a road bar in the Florida Key Conor McGregor) and a real estate promoter determined to build a luxurious resort for “rich fools.”
The film was considered a success for Amazon MGM, and the study announced the development of a sequel last year during its opening presentation of UPFronts. The film premiered in Prime Video last March and broke records for the streaming platform, attracting almost 80 million viewers worldwide in their first eight weeks, becoming the “most viewed film debut of the study worldwide,” according to the then director of the study, Jennifer Salke.
Ritchie is replacing the director Doug Limanwho expressed his frustration for the streaming launch of the original film of Road House. Last year, Liman declared the Indiewire portal that his discontent was due to the lack of adequate compensation, since Road House was initially conceived as a premiere in cinemas for MGM, but the distribution changed when MGM was acquired by Amazon. Amazon previously indicated that the film had green light for streaming launch.
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