Patrick Swayze followers took to social media to blast the upcoming “Street Home” reboot starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
On Thursday, Prime Video launched the trailer for the remake, which was billed as an “adrenaline-fueled reimagining of the ’80s cult traditional” that featured the late Swayze within the main function. Within the 2024 model, Gyllenhaal, 43, performs former UFC fighter Elwood Dalton, who “takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, solely to find that this paradise just isn’t all it appears.”
Followers of Swayze, who portrayed skilled “cooler” (a time period used for head bouncer) James Dalton within the authentic movie, voiced their disapproval on X, previously Twitter, with some social media customers declaring they’d boycott the brand new model.
“There is just one cooler? that’s Patrick Swayze,” one fan wrote. One other added, “A Street Home remake? There’s just one Dalton, Go F your self Hollywood!”
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Patrick Swayze followers slammed the “Street Home” reboot starring Jake Gyllenhaal. (Laura Radford/Amazon Prime Video/Alamy)
“This sacrilege will rightly flop on it is face. Are you able to folks not give you a SINGLE authentic concept?” fumed one fan.
“I will not watch it. I really like the orig Street Home Film. Patrick Swayze should not be messed with,” wrote one other consumer on X.
“This appears so unhealthy why remake it,” one fan added.
One other wrote, “Nobody requested for a Street Home remake.”
“Hollywood didn’t study from the Level Break remake?” one other consumer requested. “Who determined to remake Roadhouse? That is an abomination. Arms off Patrick Swayze films….”
The late actor performed the lead function within the 1989 traditional motion movie. (Alamy)
“I’d have some VERY damaging issues to say about this Street Home remake, however Patrick Swayze gave me some good life recommendation: Be Good,” one fan commented.
“Was fairly eager on this till the trailer. Identical scenes, identical dialogue, identical brand. Iike JG, however Swayze will at all times be Dalton. Possibly as a standalone movie it will work, however not as Roadhouse,” noticed one other X consumer.
Some followers expressed pleasure for the remake, which additionally stars Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Joaquim de Almeida, Lukas Gage, Arturo Castro, B.Okay. Cannon, Beau Knapp, Darren Barnet and MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his appearing debut.
“Why oh why does this look so freakin GOOD,” one X consumer wrote, with one other including, “This appears rattling good. Gyllenhaal trying nice as at all times.”
“Excited for the ROAD HOUSE remake! Cannot wait to look at it,” one fan enthused.
Within the authentic “Street Home,” Swayze’s character was employed to run safety on the Double Deuce, “the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line.” The movie additionally starred Sam Elliott, Kelly Lynch and Ben Gazzara.
Gyllenhaal stars within the reboot, which is able to premiere on Prime Video March 21. (Laura Radford © Amazon Content material Providers LLC )
“Street Home” was a field workplace disappointment however turned a hit on house video and achieved a cult following.
The action-packed trailer for the reboot featured fistfights, speedboat chases and a number of clashes between Gyllenhaal and McGregor, who delivers a brutal headbutt in a single scene.
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Disapproving followers will not be alone in boycotting the remake. On Wednesday, the film’s director, Doug Liman, introduced he won’t attend the “Street Home” premiere at SXSW in March.
MMA fighter Conor McGregor makes his appearing debut within the remake. (Laura Radford © Amazon Content material Providers LLC )
In a visitor column he penned for Deadline, Liman defined he could be a no-show on the occasion in protest over Amazon MGM Studio’s choice to forego a theatrical launch for the film.
“When Street Home opens the SXSW movie competition, I gained’t be attending,” he wrote partly. “The film is incredible, perhaps my greatest, and I’m certain it would deliver the home down and presumably have the viewers dancing of their seats through the finish credit. However I can’t be there.
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“My plan had been to silently protest Amazon’s choice to stream a film so clearly made for the massive display screen,” he added. “However Amazon is hurting far more than simply me and my movie. If I don’t communicate up about Amazon, who will?”
Director Doug Liman introduced he’ll boycott the movie’s premiere as a result of Amazon’s choice to not give the film a theatrical launch. (Amazon Prime Video)
In his column, Liman wrote that he had signed on for a theatrical launch for the film, however the choice for a streaming-only debut got here after Amazon purchased MGM. He expressed his unhappiness that the actors and movie wouldn’t be eligible for awards recognition and warned that the transfer may very well be “trade shaping for many years to come back.”
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“If we don’t put tentpole films in film theaters, there gained’t be film theaters sooner or later,” he added.
“Street Home” will likely be accessible to stream on Prime Video March 21.
