Amazon has unveiled the first trailer and for its upcoming action film Road House. The Prime Video film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and UFC champion Conor McGregor in his acting debut.
Road House is a remake of the 1989 cult film of the same name starring Patrick Swayze. It follows ex-UFC fighter Elwood Dalton (Gyllenhaal) as he takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that the supposed paradise is not all it seems.
McGregor stars as brash UFC fighter Knox, one of the film’s villains. Gyllenhaal filmed several scenes for the film – including a weigh-in and walkout – at UFC 285 in Las Vegas last year.
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The action-thriller is directed by Doug Liman, whose credits include The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith and Edge of Tomorrow. It also stars Portuguese The Suicide Squad star Daniela Melchior and No Time to Die’s Billy Magnussen.
Road House will launch exclusively on Prime Video with a release date slated for Thursday, March 21. It will be available to stream with a subscription to Amazon Prime, which usually costs £8.99 a month or £95 a year and comes with a host of benefits like next-day delivery, Amazon Music Prime and Deliveroo Plus – while Prime Video alone can be joined for £5.99 a month.
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Prime Video unveiled the trailer for Road House on Thursday (January 25), showing a chiselled Gyllenhaal fighting McGregor’s Knox after the Irishman smashes tables at Dalton’s bar with a golf club.
“I’ve got a tip for you, don’t let no one get this close,” Knox says in the clip, taunting Dalton before landing a brutal headbutt.
Sharing the trailer on X, McGregor wrote: “Fighting, acting, there’s nothing this Mac can’t do! Here’s the trailer featuring my brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, and me going toe-to-toe in the wildest action movie ever – Road House!
“My acting debut is gonna leave a mark! Long live Knox!”
Elsewhere, director Liman announced this week that he plans to boycott Road House’s South By Southwest premiere to protest Amazon’s decision to release the film directly to Prime Video, omitting a theatrical release. Writing in a Deadline guest column, he said: “When Road House opens the SXSW film festival, I won’t be attending.
“The movie is fantastic, maybe my best, and I’m sure it will bring the house down and possibly have the audience dancing in their seats during the end credits. But I will not be there.”
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