‘Road House’ remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal to be set in Florida

Amazon Studios has announced that Jake Gyllenhaal will star in a reboot of the 1989 cult classic “Road House.”

According to Variety, Gyllenhaal will play Dalton, a former UFC fighter who takes a job working as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse and “discovers that not everything is what it seems in this tropical paradise.”

Doug Liman, best known for directing “The Bourne Identity,” “Swingers,” and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” will direct the action movie.

“I’m thrilled to put my own spin on the beloved Road House legacy and I can’t wait to show audiences what Jake and I are going to do with this iconic role,” Liman told Deadline.

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The movie will go into production in the Dominican Republic later this month and will also star Billy Magnussen, Daniela Melchior, Gbemisola Ikumelo and Lukas Gage.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Amazon said that the project would be a new take on the iconic 1989 movie where the late Patrick Swayze played a zen “cooler” James Dalton in a rough and tumble small town in Missouri.

“Road House is a homerun for us. Not only is it a nod to fans of the original, but it is also a big, fun, broad audience movie,” said Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, to Deadline.

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years Here are some photos of actor Jake Gyllenhaal through the years. (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2001: Actors Jake Gyllenhaal (left) and Marley Shelton attend the premiere of the film "Bubble Boy" on August 23, 2001, in Hollywood, California. (Vince Bucci/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2002: Actress Jennifer Aniston and actor Jake Gyllenhaal attend the premiere of their movie "The Good Girl" on January 12, 2002, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2003: Actress Kirsten Dunst and actor Jake Gyllenhaal arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Gala sponsored by Gucci on April 28, 2003, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (Evan Agostini/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2004: Actors Scarlett Johansson and Jake Gyllenhaal speak on stage at the 2004 MTV Movie Awards at the Sony Pictures Studios on June 5, 2004, in Culver City, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2005: Maggie Gyllenhaal (left) and Jake Gyllenhaal (right) pose with their parents on the red carpet for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) gala screening of the film "Bee Season" on September 11, 2005, in Toronto. (Donald Weber/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2006: Jake Gyllenhaal, winner of actor in a supporting role for "Brokeback Mountain," and presenter Charlize Theron pose backstage in the Awards Room at The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) at the Odeon Leicester Square on February 19, 2006, in London. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2007: Actors Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal attend a photocall for the movie "Rendition" during Day 4 of the 2nd Rome Film Festival on October 21, 2007, in Rome, Italy. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2009: Actor Jake Gyllenhaal presents the first look at "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" onstage during Spike TV's seventh annual Video Game Awards at the Nokia Event Deck at LA Live on December 12, 2009, in Los Angeles. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2010: Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal arrive at the 82nd annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on March 7, 2010, in Hollywood, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2011: Actors Michelle Williams and Jake Gyllenhaal attend the 49th annual New York Film Festival premiere of The Weinstein Company's "My Week With Marilyn" at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on October 9, 2011, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2012: Actors Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal attend the The Hollywood Reporter and Samsung Galaxy SIII private Hamptons screening of Open Road Films' "End of Watch" at Goose Creek on August 19, 2012, in East Hampton, New York. (Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2013: Actor Jake Gyllenhaal arrives at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center on November 16, 2013, in Hollywood, California. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2014: Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal attend the "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2014, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2015: Actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal attend the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 11, 2015, in Beverly Hills, California. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2016: Jake Gyllenhaal attends the premiere of "Nocturnal Animals" during the 73rd Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on September 2, 2016, in Venice, Italy. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2017: Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal attend the 31st American Cinematheque Award Presentation Honoring Amy Adams at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 10, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California. (John Sciulli/Getty Images for American Cinematheque)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2018: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal attend the NY Special Screening of Netflix's "The Kindergarten Teacher" at Crosby Street Hotel on October 9, 2018, in New York City. (Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Netflix)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2019: Tom Holland (left) and Jake Gyllenhaal attend Fan Fest, the fan-meeting event of "Spider-Man: Far From Home," on June 30, 2019, in Seoul. (Woohae Cho/Getty Images)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2020: Jake Gyllenhaal attends a Palo Alto Networks dinner to discuss the role cybersecurity plays in Hollywood today at the Virgin Hotels on February 25, 2020, in San Francisco. (Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for Palo Alto Networks)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2021: Jake Gyllenhaal attends the 74th annual Tony Awards at Winter Garden Theater on September 26, 2021, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

Photos: Jake Gyllenhaal through the years 2022: Jake Gyllenhaal and Jeanne Cadieu attend the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 27, 2022, in Beverly Hills, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)