Jake Gyllenhaal In Talks to Star in Road House Remake

The long-gestating Road House remake is heating up again, with Jake Gyllenhaal in talks to star. Deadline reports that Gyllenhaal is in talks to topline the remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze-starring cult favorite, with Doug Liman in talks to direct.

The site notes that a production date is still undetermined as Liman is prepping an Everest film and Gyllenhaal is about to begin filming Guy Ritchie’s The Interpreter. That said, executives are meeting with writers for the new pitch and reportedly consider the film a “high priority.”

The original film starred Swayze as Dalton, a bouncer who gets hired to clean up one of the roughest bars in Missouri known as The Double Deuce. The film was a hit financially and there have been many stabs at remaking the film, most recently with Nick Cassavetes set to write and direct a take which would have starred Ronda Rousey. Plans for the film fell through and it was quietly snuffed in 2016.