- For their third collaboration in three years, Guy Ritchie and Jake Gyllenhaal are coming together for Amazon MGM Studios’ Road House 2.
- While the US$85 million reboot was controversially denied a theatrical release, much to director Doug Liman’s chagrin, it quickly proved to be a major streaming hit (hence the sequel).
- Amazon MGM Studios’ Road House 2 release date: TBA.
Say what you will about Guy Ritchie. But the man certainly doesn’t sit on his hands, especially when there’s a streaming contract on the line.
With Paramount+’s MobLand, Apple’s Fountain of Youth, upcoming thriller In The Grey (also starring Jake Gyllenhaal), and Wife & Dog in the can – and Netflix’s The Gentlemen season 2 now rolling cameras – the beloved director of Snatch fame has already lined up his next project: Road House 2 for Amazon MGM Studios.
The straight-to-streaming sequel will not only reunite Ritchie with Gyllenhaal, marking their third collaboration in three years (a partnership that began with MGM’s Afghanistan war drama The Covenant), but also unite him with Will Beall – a Hollywood scribe whose credits range from Gangster Squad and Aquaman to Bad Boys: Ride or Die and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.
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Currently, neither plot details, further casting, nor a release date have been confirmed. Only that Jake Gyllenhaal will definitely be reprising his role as disgraced UFC fighter turned Florida Keys bouncer and vigilante, Elwood Dalton. Though considering Conor McGregor‘s villainous Knox canonically survives that final fight, assaulting hospital staff before exiting in a gown, we could very well be in for more unhinged screen presence.
Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, BK Cannon, Joaquim de Almeida, Lukas Gage, as well as Austin Post AKA Post Malone, also featured in Road House (2024).
Guy Ritchie replaces Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith, Edge of Tomorrow), who helmed the first Amazon/MGM-era reboot, and remains famously frosty towards Amazon as a whole after they denied him a theatrical release. Despite appealing to Jeff Bezos himself with a private viewing party on the real-life Bond villain’s yacht. The decision also “incensed” fired producer Joel Silver.
Keep an eye out here for updates on Guy Ritchie’s Road House 2 starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Side note: given Mr Ritchie is a lifelong martial artist with a black belt in Shotokan karate, judo, as well as Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Renzo Gracie himself, we can expect quite an improvement in the fight scenes.
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