Guy Ritchie is making a Road House sequel with Jake Gyllenhaal

None of which, apparently, has stopped Guy Ritchie from stepping up to the bar. This is per THR, which reports that Ritchie has just signed on to direct a sequel to the 2024 film, teaming up with Gyllenhaal to continue the story of Elwood Dalton, rogue UFC fighter-turned small-town bouncer. To be fair, Liman’s Road House did have a mid-credits stinger—because, yes, even direct-to-Prime Video Road House remakes must now have mid-credit stingers—setting up the return of one of the film’s antagonists, so all the rich narrative ground has clearly been laid. Ritchie comes to the project amidst a minor career boom in TV: Although he hasn’t had a theatrical movie land well since the mostly mercenary (and Disney marketing-powered) Aladdin remake, his recent streaming shows The Gentlemen and MobLand have both been major hits. The sequel, meanwhile, is swapping writers as well as directors; Will Beall, who penned the screenplay for Bad Boys: Ride Or Die, is set to write it.

Liman, for his part, was reportedly pretty pissed that Road House didn’t get a theatrical release, helping to explain his absence here. (Amazon MGM has said the director was given a choice between being in theaters and getting a higher budget, and chose the latter.) Gyllenhaal and Ritchie, meanwhile, previously worked together on the director’s 2023 Afghanistan-set war drama Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.