Guy Ritchie and Jake Gyllenhaal to reunite for Road House sequel

Guy Ritchie and Jake Gyllenhaal. Pics/AFP

English filmmaker Guy Ritchie is once again joining forces with actor Jake Gyllenhaal as he is set to direct the sequel to Road House.

Gyllenhaal will reprise his lead role as ex-UFC fighter Dalton in the film. Road House 2 marks the third collaboration between Ritchie and Gyllenhaal, and their second for Amazon MGM Studios following Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023). The filmmaker and the Oscar- and Tony-nominated actor also collaborated on the forthcoming action thriller, In The Grey. Will Beall of Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) fame is writing the script for the sequel, plot details of which are being kept under wraps.

As per reports, producers include Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven and Alex Gartner, as well as Gyllenhaal for his Nine Stories Productions with Josh McLaughlin. Ivan Atkinson will executive produce.

Road House (2024) is a reboot of the 1989 classic starring Patrick Swayze, and followed Gyllenhaal as a former UFC fighter struggling to make ends meet.

The movie was viewed as a success for Amazon MGM and the studio announced a sequel was in development last summer during its inaugural Upfronts presentation. The film launched on Prime Video last March and broke records for the streamer - attracting nearly 80 million worldwide viewers in its first eight weeks to become the studio's
"most-watched produced film debut ever on a worldwide basis," per then-studio chief Jennifer Salke.

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