Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the reboot of the action thriller ‘Road House’ , directed by Doug Liman and produced by Amazon, which will be available for streaming.
Gyllenhaal plays a former UFC fighter who works as a bouncer at a cluttered hotel in the Florida Keys, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems in this tropical paradise.
The cast also includes Billy Magnussen, Daniela Melchior, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Lukas Gage and others, with Anthony Bagarozzi (‘The Nice Guys’) and Charles Mondry writing the screenplay, which opens later this month in the Dominican Republic.
The original 1989 version, directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott and Ben Gazzara, tells the story of Dalton, a capable and popular bouncer who moves to a small Missouri town to help straighten out a disorganized bar and in the process exposes the corrupt practices of a local bully businessman The story is about Dalton, a capable and popular bouncer who moves to a small Missouri town to help fix a disorganized bar and in the process exposes the corrupt practices of local bully businessmen.
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