Actor Jake Gyllenhaal and director Doug Liman are in talks for a reboot of Road House. Road House is a 1989 activity film starring Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, and Sam Elliott. The plot sees Swayze’s Dalton hired on as a bouncer at The Double Deuce, an excessively rambunctious bar in Missouri, where he attempts to maintain order while likewise helping local people with a bad businessman.
According to Deadline, MGM considers the reboot of Road House a high priority. Right now, Gyllenhaal is in talks to star in the film, however it’s muddled whether he’ll venture into the job of Dalton or then again if it will include another person. It’s likewise announced that director Doug Liman, known for The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow, is being tried to rudder the movie. At this point, MGM is apparently seeking out writers for a rewrite of a formerly written draft.
Gyllenhaal has a loaded timetable with a few activities in the pipeline. He is starring in Michael Bay’s Ambulance, which is expected out the following year, and he’s additionally rumored to be involved with Guy Ritchie’s The Interpreter, with a few different activities in different phases of creation. Liman’s timetable likewise appears to be full, as he’s developing a film called Everest, about George Mallory’s endeavors to scale the mountain, and a rumored spin-off of Edge of Tomorrow. Liman is likewise developing an insanely ambitious undertaking with Tom Cruise, which is set to be the main film creation to at any point shoot in space.
While Gyllenhaal and Liman’s involvement isn’t ensured at this point, this denotes the primary huge push for the Road House reboot in some time. Beforehand, MGM was looking to remake the film with proficient grappler Ronda Rousey, however that neglected to gain the vital foothold, leading the studio to scrap the thought. Notwithstanding, the studios restored life with the IP could see the Road House reboot finally make headway. The start of creation is still TBD, however in the event that Gyllenhaal and Liman sign on, it could be in the near future. Further insights concerning the Road House reboot will ideally be forthcoming as the venture creates.