Guy Ritchie has signed on to direct Road House 2, the sequel to Amazon MGM Studios’ hit action movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Will Beall, whose credits range from comic book movies such as Aquaman to action flicks such as Bad Boys: Ride or Die, is writing the script.
Gyllenhaal will reprise his role as Dalton, the ex-UFC fighter who takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys bar. Gyllenhaal will also produce with Josh McLaughlin via the duo’s Nine Stories Productions banner along with Charles Roven and Alex Gartner of Altas Entertainment.
Plot details, as well as setting, are being kept under the shirt.
The 2024 movie, a remake of the 1989 movie that starred Patrick Swayze, was directed by Doug Liman and was written by Anthony Bagarozzi and Chuck Mondry. It was a massive hit for the streaming unit, attracting nearly 80 million worldwide viewers on Prime Video after only eight weeks.
Liman was unlikely to return for a sequel thanks to a nasty fight with Amazon over the release of the movie, which he maintained was owed a theatrical release. Amazon countered that the filmmaker chose a streaming release but with a higher budget.
Ritchie is considered a good replacement for the piece. The filmmaker already has a relationship with Gyllenhaal, having previously worked together on Amazon MGM’s Guy Ritchie’s the Covenant, a well-regarded action drama set during the Afghanistan war. And the filmmaker has shown a propensity for kinetic and knuckle-busting movies with decades of thrillers, big and small.
Ritchie has also shown himself to be a filmmaker with a lit fuse behind his back, directing movies like a man possessed. After directing 2021’s Wrath of Man, he had two movies released in 2023 – Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Covenant – then created the 2024 series The Gentlemen for Netflix while also putting out spy action caper The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
This year, he has two movies in post-production, Wife and Dog and In the Grey. He also has Fountain of Youth, starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman, coming from Apple+. Ritchie is repped by WME.
Beall, who was an LAPD office before turning to screenwriting, is repped by WME, Entertainment 360, and McKuin Frankel.
