In the Road House remake, Jake Gyllenhaal plays his way through Florida’s tough bar scene as a sensitive bouncer. This was so well received by Amazon subscribers that after 80 million views, a second part will be produced.
Unfortunately, with two important people behind the scenes In the meantime, there is strife and discord given what the negotiations spicy could design.
Amazon’s action hit Road House is getting a sequel – but what about the director?
The Road House drama began last year when producer Joel Silver was fired. As Variety reported, he was thrown out because of verbal abuse toward two female producers. The producer himself later claimed that it had to do with the fact that he had opposed the use of artificial intelligence.
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Jake Gyllenhaal in Road House
An even more awkward conversation could be in store with director Doug Liman. In January 2024 he published a nasty guest article in the industry magazine Deadline. In this, he revealed that he would boycott the SXSW premiere of Road House because Amazon (after purchasing MGM) released the film on the Prime Video platform instead of regularly in theaters.
With cynical words he wrote in a bitter tone:
Amazon will sell more toasters if it has more subscribers; it will have more subscribers if it doesn’t have to compete with cinemas. A computer could come up with this elegant solution as easily as stopping global warming by killing everyone.
In addition, Amazon is currently engaged in a copyright dispute with author R. Lance Hill, who wrote the Road House original. According to Deadline, he also accuses the online distribution company of using AI to complete the remake.
When is Road House 2 coming to Amazon?
A sequel to the Road House remake was just announced during the Amazon upfronts and is still in its early stages as a project. Neither those involved are known, except for Gyllenhaal, nor when the film will see the light of day in the streaming world. Before 2025 or sooner 2026 However, this is not to be expected.