Guy Ritchie Confirmed For “Road House 2”

First reported earlier this month, filmmaker Guy Ritchie is now confirmed to have signed on to direct the sequel to last year’s “Road House” remake at Amazon MGM Studios.

Jake Gyllenhaal is back as ex-UFC fighter Dalton and Will Beall (“Aquaman,” “Bad Boys: Ride or Die”) is writing the script. Ritchie replaces Doug Liman who directed the previous film and fell out with Amazon over its lack of a theatrical release.

The first film, a reimagining of the 1987 Patrick Swayze-led cult classic, follows 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.

Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry wrote the 2024 film which became Amazon’s most-watched film debut ever on a worldwide basis with nearly 100 million worldwide viewers tuning in to see it.

Ritchie helmed last year’s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” in cinemas and “The Gentlemen” series on Netflix.

This year he has the “Fountain of Youth” film at Apple TV+ along with “In the Grey” and “Wife and Dog,” and he recently released the Tom Hardy-led crime series “MobLand”. This project will mark Gyllenhaal’s third outing with Ritchie.

Source: THR

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