The Jake Gyllenhaal Road House remake is finally a go at Prime Video
Edge Of Tomorrow director Doug Liman will direct the updated version of Patrick Swayze's 1989 classic
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Jake Gyllenhaal has some big shoes to fill: his remake of Road House, originally starring Patrick Swayze, is officially moving forward. Gyllenhaal and director Doug Liman’s names have been attached to the project for almost a year, and Prime Video has finally given them the green light.
The 1989 version of the film was about Dalton, a bouncer at a rowdy Missouri bar. The updated version “follows a former UFC fighter (Gyllenhaal) who 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,” according to a press release from the streamer.
“I’m thrilled to put my own spin on the beloved Road House legacy,” said Liman in a statement. “And I can’t wait to show audiences what Jake and I are going to do with this iconic role.”
Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke called the reboot “a homerun for us,” continuing, “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.”
In his own statement, producer Joel Silver said the original “has a special place in my heart.” He added, “Doug and I have each made some big, boisterous action movies and are ready to bring everything we have to this one.”
Joining Gyllenhaal in the cast are Billy Magnussen (No Time to Die), Daniela Melchior (The Suicide Squad), Gbemisola Ikumelo (A League of Their Own), Lukas Gage (The White Lotus), Hannah Love Lanier (A Black Lady Sketch Show), Travis Van Winkle (You), B.K. Cannon (Why Women Kill), Arturo Castro (Broad City), Dominique Columbus (Ray Donovan), Beau Knapp (Seven Seconds), and Bob Menery. The film is expected to begin production in the Dominican Republic later this month.
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“Let’s Have A Jake Gyllenhall Christmas” just doesn’t have the same ring to it, though.
Santa is still our regular Saturday Night Thing however.
But I got the word that Santa has been stealing from the till.
That right jolly old elf better make out his will.
“This could be the shakiest, Jakey-est Christmas of all!”
They’ll have to spin it. “Deck the Gyllenhalls with holly.” They’ll figure something out.
I’m going to go kick someone in the ear in protest.
No.
I wrote a screenplay for a movie called Roundhouse. It’d just be about a boring guy who lives ina yurt. He’d be great in it!
I have a screenwriter friend named King Kong Bundy The Uncredited Script Doctor (any relation??) and I could ask him to take a look at your screenplay.
I’m distantly related to the Newport Uncredited Script Doctors, if that does anything for you.
I have one called “Haymaker”. It’s about the old-timer who rented out his barn to Dalton.
I’ve got an idea for a story about scholarship winners who live together after winning a prestigious scholarship somewhat problematically named after an infamous British colonialist. The title of my screenplay is “Rhodes House”.
I’ve also got a script idea about a very tough, grizzled man with a mysterious past who turns his home into a boat and takes it up and down the Mississippi fighting all comers. It’s called “Rowed House”.
Whatever happened to the rumored Rhonda Rousey remake?
It was rumored to have Rhonda Rousey, so…
She started losing fights.
Why would Rhonda Rousey remake Rumors?
They should have just connected Road House to the John Wick franchise. In the Road House universe, bouncers are revered and have reputations that make them folk heroes. There should be part of a branch of the John Wick hitman society that specifically has notable bouncers as members. The worlds crossover and chaos ensues. Also, doing oiled up Tai Chi is part of their rituals.
Imagining Reeves and Swayze as John Wick and James Dalton meeting each other and being low-key star struck in their own zen way is something I’m so sad I’ll never get the chance to see now.
Sooooo…..Point Break?
That’s part of what would make it so great!
Shoulda been Timothy Dalton
I love this.
Does no one remember the straight to DVD, Road House 2: Last Call in 2006? Starring Jake Busey.
Yes, no one remembers it.
Sounds like we’re better off.
Correction: Dalton was the Cooler, all the other guys were the bouncers.An easy mistake, but some people would rip your throat out over it.
He had a whole speech about it!
So you can store your beer in him?
love doug liman, love jake gyllenhaal, enjoy road house, but man what the hell.
Nein.
100% guarantee that the big bad won’t call henchman a “BLEEDA!” and the lead henchman/martial arts guy counterpart will NOT tell Jake Gyllenhall that he used to bone dudes like him in prison.And that’s a dealbreaker, ladies
As long as Jake tells someone their too stupid to have a good time, it’s still Road House-esq.
The problem with this remake is that they’re 100% guaranteed to misunderstand that “not everything is what it seems in this tropical paradise” is not the plot of Roadhouse.
The only reason mini-mob boss Ben Gazzara existed is to help extend “Patrick Swayze beats the shit out of people” into a standard feature-length film.Because the real plot of Roadhouse is “Jack Dalton is so awesome everyone wants to fight him, fuck him or hire him.” That’s it.
I’m totally watching Roadhouse today
I mean it is Tuesday.
This remake will also have to go in a different direction, because I can’t see Jake being totally zen for nearly the whole movie – maybe until the first fight. He’ll start out that way but then he’s going to go over the top, which honestly, is my favorite Jake. This article nails it:https://uproxx.com/movies/jake-gyllenhaal-ambulance/
Or going Southpaw nutso:
It also gives up the ability to handwave away the complete and utter absurdity of the goings-on, trading middle of nowhere Missouri for the Florida Keys. There’s only one fucking heavily-traveled road through the Keys, hardly a place to dodge anything beyond bought and paid for local law enforcement.
Bogart made it work.
Maybe it’ll be a period piece?
Because the real plot of Roadhouse is “Jack Dalton is so awesome everyone wants to fight him, fuck him or hire him.” That’s it.This guy goddamn gets it.
wut?
Recently watched RH for the first time since it was new. I didn’t remember it being a violent exploitation movie. Still enjoyed but it’s pretty trashy. Seems beneath Jake. Seems beneath Patrick too I suppose but there he was.
Seems Beneath Jake are my second fave ska band.
Yeah, no. Didn’t ask for it. Don’t want it. Sounds like an SNL sketch.
Road House is a perfect one-and-done. It doesn’t need a sequel or reboot or any other kind of revisiting. It’s charm is too inherent to the people in it and the time it came from.
Road House is pretty specifically a coked-out trashy 80’s flick redeemed in its entirety by Swayze’s whole aura, and how perfectly dialed-in he is. Obviously Gazzara and Elliot bring something special to it as well, but it doesn’t work in a modern context at all.
I’ll only watch this if Gyllenhaal reprises his Mister Music character for the role.