Jake Gyllenhaal says the fights in Road House are unlike anything seen on screen before
Ex🗹clusive: Road House star Jake Gyllenhaal talks to Total Film about the "groundbreaking" action in the reimagining

Road House, the reimagining🌼 of the riotous '80s cult classic, isn't going to pull its punches, with star Jake Gyllenhaal even going as far as saying the action scenes are filmed "in a way that has never been done before."
"[Director Doug Liman] always does action in a different way, and he came to me and said, 'I ൩want to do fights in a way that has never been done before,'" Gyllenhaal tells out this Friday, which feat🥀ures Road House on the cover.
"He became pretty much obsessed with how the punches would land, and the kicks would land. He didn’t want them to be performed in t꧃he way that we have for audiences in the past with that kind of fighting."
It's not just a one-off, either. Stunt coordinator Garrett Warren recalls that he thought "we'll do this magic trick once or twi🅠ce, maybe three times."
"But no, not with Doug. Doug wanted to do it the whole time. The shots were never cut. When you see this movie, t🔯he fights are way beyond any fight that has ever been filmed in cinema history. This is something that is groundbreaking."
Gyllenhaal plays Dalton in Road House, an ex-UFC fighter who takes﷽ a job as a bouncer at a roadhouse in the Florida Keys. However, he soon discovers more than he bargained for in the form of a violent gang causing trouble. Billy Magnussen, Daniela Melchior, Lukas Gage, and former UFC champion Conor McGregor all also star.
Road House is released on Prime Video on March 21. And you can read more about it and a ꦿwhole lot else besides in the new issue of Total Film when it hits shelves and dig🍬ital newsstands on Friday, March 1. This is one day later than usual, due to how the Leap Year falls.
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I'm the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I've worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting fro𒉰m the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance🐎 Film Festival.