Los Angeles, Dec 22 – Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal looks muscular in the middle of what appears to be an underground fighting ring in the first look of ‘Road House’.
Later, his character takes on a large group of adversaries in a dimly-lit parking lot. He hits an antagonist in the face and sarcastically asks, “Oo, I just slapped you, are you alright?” before proceeding to obliterate the rest of the group with his agile mixed martial arts skills, reports Entertainment Weekly.
The project is a remake of the 1989 action movie of the same name starring Patrick Swayze. In that film, a security guard protects a roadside bar in Missouri from a malicious local businessman. Details on the remake are scarce, but Gyllenhaal’s character is that of an ex-UFC fighter, and the film is set in Florida this time around.
Doug Liman directed the project, with Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, and UFC star Conor McGregor as co-stars.
As per Entertainment Weekly, the first look is a part of Prime Video’s sizzle reel for its upcoming slate.
The sizzle reel also showed footage from Ricky Stanicky, a new fantasy-comedy from Peter Farrelly starring Zac Efron and John Cena.
It also shows glimpses of Jennifer Lopez’s musical ‘This Is Me…Now: The Film’, rom-com ‘Upgraded’ starring Camila Mendes, ‘The Idea of You’ starring Anne Hathaway, and other film projects.
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