Conor McGregor To Make Acting Debut In Jake Gyllenhaal’s Road House Reboot
UFC Champion fighter Conor McGregor is set to make his acting debut in Prime Video's remake of Road House starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The original Road House was released in 1989 and starred Patrick Swayze in the lead role of Dalton alongside Sam Elliot, Kelly Lynch, and Ben Gazzara. The remake is being directed by Edge of Tomorrow's Doug Liman and co-stars Billy Magnussen, Daniela Melchior, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Lukas Gage, Hannah Love Lanier, Travis Van Winkle, B.K. Cannon, Arturo Castro, Dominique Columbus, Beau Knapp and Bob Menery. The remake traces a former UFC fighter, played by Gyllenhaal, who «takes a job as a bouncer at a rough-and-tumble roadhouse in the Florida Keys, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.»
McGregor (aka The Notorious) is a champion UFC fighter who has competed since 2008, with a record of 22-6-0. The Dublin-born fighter has been ranked as the world's highest-paid athlete in recent years and has frequently been the face of controversy with his antics outside the ring. McGregor has yet to appear in a Hollywood film, although he's come close, almost starring in Vin Diesel's xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, bowing out before it got started. He also appeared in the campaign for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare as the character Bradley Fillion.
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McGregor has now signed on to star opposite Gyllenhaal in the Road House reboot (per Deadline) in an undisclosed role. Although his character details are being kept under wraps, it's being reported that McGregor will play an original character and not himself in the film, which goes into production this month and will debut on Prime Video. Insiders say that
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