Man Ritchie Reportedly Set to Tackle Jake Gyllenhaal’s Highway Home 2

English movie director Man Ritchie is reportedly in talks to direct Highway Home 2 with Jake Gyllenhaal. An trade insider stated a deal could not be reached in time for CinemaCon.

Trade insider Matthew Belloni just lately shared the inside track on his e-newsletter, revealing Ritchie’s reported involvement in Amazon/MGM’s Highway Home sequel. “Amazon/MGM couldn’t shut his deal in time for CinemaCon, however Man Ritchie is in negotiations to direct Highway Home 2, with Jake Gyllenhaal returning and Will Beall writing,” Belloni writes. “Amazon declined to remark, but when this one adheres to Amazon’s new theaters-first technique, it would set off a full-on stroke for Doug Liman, who directed the primary one and went scorched earth on Amazon when he didn’t get a theatrical launch.”

Liman directed 2024’s Highway Home remake movie starring Gyllenhaal because the ex-UFC fighter who takes a job as a bouncer at a street home within the Florida Keys. The movie premiered March 8 at South by Southwest, later arriving on Prime Video on March 21. When Amazon determined to launch the movie straight to streaming, Liman vocally condemned the studio, so it is smart that they’d be seeking to exchange him for the sequel.

Upon its launch on Prime Video in 2024, Highway Home obtained blended critiques. It was praised for updating the older movie, 1989’s basic starring Patrick Swayze, whereas nonetheless sustaining the unique’s “tacky brawn over narrative brains”. On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has a 62% approval ranking from critics, with the viewers rating barely decrease at 52%.

It stays to be seen if Highway Home 2 will get a theatrical launch if Amazon/MGM and Ritchie do shut a deal for him to direct. Ritchie’s earlier works embody the box-office hit Sherlock Holmes sequence starring Robert Downey Jr. and Disney’s 2019 live-action adaptation of Aladdin, which grossed over $1 billion.

Jake Gyllenhaal Shares Pleasure for Highway Home Franchise’s Future

Gyllenhaal’s first Highway Home movie was the third film general within the franchise, and the actor has already expressed his pleasure about conserving the story going. “I’m very enthusiastic about it,” Gyllenhaal stated when requested in regards to the upcoming sequel. “We’ve had a lot of completely different concepts that we needed to discover, and the truth that we’re going to have the ability to do that’s actually thrilling.”

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Particulars in regards to the plot of Highway Home 2 are nonetheless a thriller, however Gyllenhaal has teased that the sequel goes to be “larger” and an “expansive” entry into the franchise. “[Road House 2] will likely be expansive, and it is going to be larger, and I can’t wait…Like, I can’t wait.”

If true, official affirmation of Ritchie’s reported involvement in Highway Home 2 is predicted to observe within the close to future.

Supply: Matthew Belloni

Highway Home

Launch Date

March 21, 2024

Runtime

121 Minutes

Director

Doug Liman

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