Jake Gyllenhaal gets sweaty & shirtless in 1st Road House remake trailer

Patrick Swayze has quite the chest to live up to, but Jake Gyllenhaal is doing his darndest in the first trailer for the new Road House remake.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars as former UFC fighter Elwood Dalton in the film, directed by Doug Liman, which is a remake of the 1989 fighting classic of the same name starring Swayze.

Dalton starts off the preview by slap-fighting a group of men in a parking lot where a crowd including characters played by Jessica Williams and Lukas Gage have gathered to watch. After we see him meeting a nurse (played by Daniela Melchior) and sleeping in his car, the character played by Williams approaches him.

“I own a roadhouse out in the Florida Keys,” she tells him. “Lately it's been attracting the wrong clientele. I can pay you good money. Judging by your car, you need it.”

When Dalton gets hired to be a bouncer at the roadhouse, he starts teaching the locals, including Gage, a little bit about fighting and friendship.

Soon, Williams’ character tells him that she’s being forced to sell the roadhouse by a local villain played by Billy Magnussen, who brings in his own big, buff fighter Knox – played by real-life MMA fighter Conor McGregor – to face off against Dalton.

It’s punches, bruises, bare chests, and masculine anger from there, as Dalton and Knox face off and the community tries to fight back against the bad guys.

Road House is being released on Prime Video on March 21.

It will also be having a premiere at the SXSW film festival, but director Limon won’t be there, as he’s protesting Amazon MGM, who initially told him the film would be released in theaters, only to change its mind and decide to relegate it to streaming.

“The facts: 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,” he wrote.

“Because contrary to their public statements, Amazon has no interest in supporting cinemas,” he added. “Amazon will exclusively stream Road House on Amazon’s Prime. 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.”