Patrick Swayze fans SLAM 'embarrassing' Road House reboot as Jake Gyllenhaal takes over role in new trailer - where he gets HEADBUTTED by Conor McGregor

Patrick Swayze fans have vowed to boycott the Road House remake after the 1989 movie was rebooted with Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead role.

The first trailer for the Prime Video version dropped on Thursday morning showing Gyllenhaal as Elwood Dalton, seemingly related to Swayze’s character James Dalton.

This new Dalton is a ripped former UFC fighter who becomes a ‘cooler’ (bouncer) for a dingy bar in the Florida Keys.

Daniela Melchior (in the Kelly Lynch role) Billy Magnussen (in Ben Gazzara’s place) and Jessica Williams star alongside real-life UFC fighter Conor McGregor.

McGregor’s appearance in the trailer is fleeting yet memorable, with The Notorious squaring up to Gyllenhaal and delivering a brutal headbutt to open their first fight scene.

Patrick Swayze fans have vowed to boycott the Road House remake after the 1989 movie was rebooted with Jake Gyllenhaal (pictured) in the lead role

Swayze starred in the original as a bouncer who attempts tp restore order at a notorious bar but runs afoul of a ruthless crime boss who controls the town

Conor McGregor’s appearance in the trailer is fleeting yet memorable, with The Notorious squaring up to Gyllenhaal and delivering a brutal headbutt to open their first fight scene

Nonetheless, the action-packed trailer failed to win over any fans of the original who questioned why anyone would bother with a remake.

Fans shared on X: ‘They remade Roadhouse?? Will I watch it? Probably But Swayze aka Dalton will always be the OG in my book’; ‘The proper/only/Swayze version of Road House is on 5Star tonight at 9pm.’;

‘A Road House remake? There’s only one Dalton, Go F yourself Hollywood!’; ‘I would have some VERY negative things to say about this Road House remake, but Patrick Swayze gave me some good life advice: Be Nice’;

‘Whose idea was it to remake Roadhouse and when will they be fired?! ‘; ‘Hollywood didn’t learn from the Point Break remake? Who decided to remake Roadhouse? This is an abomination. Hands off Patrick Swayze movies….’;

‘I love how people can put their differences aside and come together and agree that the world doesn’t need a Road House remake ❤️’; ‘Why are they remaking Roadhouse? Did a single person ever ask for this?’; ‘Lads. The absolute state of that Road House remake trailer starring himself.’

Yet not everyone was unimpressed, with one sharing: ‘Road House (2024) looks cool, the action seems well shot and fun.But I keep thinking about how it compares to the ‘89 Original. With Benny Urquidez as choreographer and the filmmakers accommodating to his style the original has this Hong Kong energy full of clarity and rhythm.’

The original Road House bowed in 1989 to a disappointing response but has since acquired a devoted cult following.

The soundtrack included original songs by Patrick, among classic recordings like the Doors’ Roadhouse Blues and Fats Domino’s Blue Monday.

Nonetheless, the action-packed trailer failed to win over any fans of the original who questioned why anyone would bother with a remake

It emerged Wednesday that the new Road House will not get a theatrical release, but will instead receive a streaming-only rollout on Amazon Prime March 21.

In protest, its furious director Doug Liman wrote a Deadline guest column announcing that he will skip his own movie’s premiere in March.

‘When Road House opens the SXSW film festival, I won’t be attending,’ wrote Doug, whose filmography includes Swingers, The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

‘The movie is fantastic, maybe my best, and I’m sure it will bring the house down and possibly have the audience dancing in their seats during the end credits,’ wrote the filmmaker in Deadline. ‘But I will not be there.’

He recalled: ‘When Amazon bought MGM, one of the few remaining studios making big commercial films for theatrical release (movies like Bond, Creed ) they announced that they would put a billion dollars into theatrical motion pictures, releasing at least 12 a year.”

Doug added: ‘They touted it as “the largest commitment to cinemas by an internet company.” I can tell you what they then did to me and my film, which is the opposite of what they promised when they took over MGM.’

He declared that ‘The facts’ were as follows: ‘I signed up to make a theatrical motion picture for MGM. Amazon bought MGM. Amazon said make a great film and we will see what happens. I made a great film.’

Dishing that the Amazon brass themselves referred to his movie as a ‘smash hit,’ he asserted that the film tested better than Mr. & Mrs. Smith or The Bourne Identity.

He also argued that the movie, with its emphasis on martial arts and its star turn by Conor McGregor, had a built-in audience with the ‘rabid and loyal’ UFC fanbase.

‘What else could I have delivered to the studio? Nothing, it turns out. Because contrary to their public statements, Amazon has no interest in supporting cinemas,’ the filmmaker wrote bitterly.

‘Amazon asked me and the film community to trust them and their public statements about supporting cinemas, and then they turned around and are using Road House to sell plumbing fixtures.’

He noted that the ‘filmmakers and stars’ of Road House do not financially ‘share’ in the windfall of the movie if it does well on a streaming service, adding that Jake will be ineligible for the major awards in spite of his ‘career-best performance.’

‘If we don’t put tentpole movies in movie theaters, there won’t be movie theaters in the future,’ Doug insisted. ‘Without movie theaters, we won’t have the commercial box office hits that are the locomotives that allow studios to take gambles on original movies and new directors. Without movie theaters we won’t have movie stars.’

It emerged Wednesday that the new Road House will not get a theatrical release, but will instead receive a streaming-only rollout on Amazon Prime March 21

In protest, its furious director Doug Liman wrote a Deadline guest column announcing that he will skip his own movie’s premiere in March

His view is that movie theaters survived the coronavirus lockdowns because of ‘brave filmmakers like Chris Nolan and Tom Cruise,’ who ‘insisted their movies play in the theater, and they proved audiences are still there.’

Referring to the Amazon executives as ‘good people who are trying to do their best,’ he wondered if they might be ‘victims in this as well, forced to betray the artists they spent their careers supporting’ over their long careers in film.

‘The reality is there may not be a human villain in this story – it may simply be an Amazon computer algorithm,’ Doug continued drily.

‘Amazon will sell more toasters if it has more subscribers; it will have more subscribers if it doesn’t have to compete with movie theaters. A computer could come up with that elegant solution as easily as it could solve global warming by killing all humans.’