Highway Home Is Getting One other Sequel With out Jake Gyllenhaal

There seems to be one other struggle flaring up behind the scenes between Road House remake director Doug Liman and Amazon MGM over the franchise. Now, two sequels to the motion drama movie would possibly go head-to-head in opposition to one another.

Liman’s Road House revival, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor, was an in a single day sensation. Nonetheless, the rising stress relating to Amazon MGM’s choice to go straight to streaming regardless of promising the director of their authentic settlement that the movie would get a theatrical launch.

On account of the feud, he determined to purchase the rights to provide his personal sequel instantly from the unique movie’s author, R. Lance Hill, whereas the studio is within the course of of constructing its personal follow-up. Liman’s film might be titled Highway Home: Dylan and will not function Gyllenhaal or have any connection to the primary remake. It is going to be a continuation of Hill’s iteration of the franchise, choosing up the place his story left off.

Amazon MGM’s Road House 2 might be directed by Ilya Naishuller and have Gyllenhaal. It’ll additionally see the return of Dave Bautista, Aldis Hodge, and Leila George. The sequel will not be launched in theaters and can go on to streaming on Amazon Prime once more, identical to the primary one did.

Whereas plot particulars for each sequels are nonetheless shrouded in thriller, the authorized battle between the creators shouldn’t be. Hill, who wrote Road House in 1989, says he regained possession of the film’s script below Part 203 of the U.S. Copyright Act. This rule supposedly permits writers to take again the rights of their work 35 years after they bought them.

Clearly, Amazon MGM had an enormous downside with Hill and disagreed together with his statements. The studio argued that the script was bought via Hill’s firm (Girl Amos Inc.), which suggests it’s thought of “work for rent”, so he can’t simply take it again. This led to the author suing them for copyright infringement relating to the Highway Home remake.

The authorized battle between Hill and Amazon MGM is at present ongoing and has not been resolved on the time of this text’s publication.