Watch: Trailer Drops for 'Road House' with Jake Gyllenhaal, Lukas Gage, Conor McGregor

Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.

Jake Gyllenhaal is looking ripped and ready in a new trailer for the remake of "Road House," the story of a mixed martial artist seeking redemption that starred Patrick Swayze in the 1989 original.

Gyllenhaal stars as Dalton, a former MMA fighter who has fallen on hard times. When he's hired as a bouncer at a Florida Keys road house that's starting to draw "the wrong clientele," he soon finds he has more than the usual crowd of drunks and rowdies to deal with.

The new trailer shows Dalton warning a group of men that they are going to need good insurance coverage if they mean to fight him. After delivering one of the men a resounding blow, he asks, "Are you alright?" – before taking on the rest of the gang.

But Dalton shows his good guy creds in a scene where he's being attended to by an ER nurse who notes, "So, you like to fight," before asking: "You ever win?"

"No one ever wins a fight," Dalton tells her.

Out actor Lukas Gage greets the newly hired bouncer at the tough bar, telling him, "I know who you are... big fan, man." Dalton soon teaches him moves that come in handy when Gage's character faces off with a knife-toting customer.

Trouble comes to this sketchy paradise when a wealthy real estate developer named Brandt, played by Billy Magnussen, starts making a play to acquire the road house. Asking about the tough new bouncer, Brandt is told that Dalton is "nice" and "like Mr. Rogers"... until he "haul[s] off," that is, and wallops someone.

Dalton isn't impressed when Brandt sends a goon named Knox – MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his acting debut – around to intimidate him. "I get the impression that you can't be threatened," Brandt says, with Magnussen plastering a psycho grin across his classically handsome face.

More psycho still is Knox, who seems ready to take things to an extreme... not that it bothers the unflappable Dalton. "It takes a lot to get me angry," the bouncer warns, "but when I am..."

We can complete the sentence: A boss battle (or several) is sure to explode! Gyllenhaal is looking more ripped than ever and ready to deliver on some hard-hitting thrills.

"Road House" is directed by action movie vet Doug Liman, whose resume includes high-octane fare like "The Bourne Identity," "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," and "Edge of Tomorrow."

"Road House" streams on Prime Video starting March 21. Watch the preview below.


by Kilian Melloy , EDGE Staff Reporter

Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.

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