Jake Gyllenhaal has some big shoes to fill.
The Academy Award-nominated actor will star in a reboot of one of Patrick Swayze’s most beloved movies.
The 1989 cult classic “Road House,” in which the late-’80s and ’90s heartthrob played a psychology degree-holding bar bouncer in small-town Missouri, is getting revived for Prime Video.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Swingers” director Doug Liman has been tapped to helm the rough-and-tumble project, which will be produced by Joel Silver, who backed the original.
“No Time to Die” star Billy Magnussen, “Euphoria “’ actor Lukas Gage, and Daniela Melchior (of “The Suicide Squad”) will join British newcomer Gbemisola Ikumelo in the film. Gyllenhaal, the “Brokeback Mountain” stud, plays — according to Amazon — “a former UFC fighter 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.”
Liman, who also directed “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “Edge of Tomorrow” commented: “I’m thrilled to put my own spin on the beloved ‘Road House’ legacy. And I can’t wait to show audiences what Jake and I are going to do with this iconic role.”
In 2020, the original “Road House” was ranked at No. 1 on Variety’s top 100 movies that saved the cable television format.
Production for the new film is scheduled to begin in the Dominican Republic this month.
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