Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. has an amazing piece up as of Wednesday that reveals a direct sequel to Rowdy Herrington’s Road House is in the works under the stewardship of Doug Liman. As the report notes, Liman, who helmed the 2024 revamp which screened at SXSW before hitting Prime Video, has “quietly” acquired the rights to the script titled Road House: Dylan, that was penned by R. Lance Hill.
The move marks the latest in an ongoing saga that followed Liman’s previously publicized impasse with creative execs over the film’s initially planned-then-canned theatrical release prior to its SXSW premiere last year, among other developments and reveals at the time. News of Liman’s efforts also marks a dismissal of Scott Ziehl’s 2006 direct-to-video follow-up to the 1989 original which starring Johnathon Schaech and Jake Busey, and was subsequently panned by critics.
Seperately, production is already underway at Amazon MGM Studios with a sequel to Liman’s Road House from director Ilya Naishuller (Nobody) with a cast that lists the return of Jake Gyllenhaal, and the addition of Dave Bautista, Leila George, and Aldis Hodge.
Read more at Deadline for the full story.
Lead image: Patrick Swayze in the 1989 film, “Road House” (United Artists)