“Street Home 2″ at Amazon MGM Studios has tapped Man Ritchie to direct the follow-up motion movie that can star Jake Gyllenhaal, IndieWire has confirmed.
The sequel to 2024’s remake was introduced manner again in Might of final yr after the movie acquired off to a powerful begin of 80 million views in its first eight weeks on Prime Video, however that is the primary replace we’ve gotten since then.
Ritchie will take over for Doug Liman, who initially vented to IndieWire about his frustration that the movie went straight to streaming slightly than be launched theatrically, which was a fallout of the movie initially being greenlit at MGM earlier than it was acquired by Amazon. Liman complained that the rug pull left folks with out compensation, although it was reported that Liman was supplied the next price range in trade for making the movie for streaming.
“My concern on ‘Street Home’ is that we made the film for MGM to be in theaters, everybody was paid as if it was going to be in theaters, after which Amazon switched it on us and no one acquired compensated,” he advised IndieWire. “Overlook in regards to the impact on the business — 50 million folks noticed ‘Street Home’ — I didn’t get a cent, Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t get a cent, [producer] Joel Silver didn’t get a cent. That’s mistaken.”
Plot particulars for “Street Home 2” are being saved below wraps, however Gyllenhaal can be again as Dalton, the previous UFC fighter turned bouncer who has to defend a small city bar from a zany internet of criminals looking for to accumulate it and tear it down. Will Beall is writing the script. The movie is a remake of the 1989 cult favourite “Street Home” starring Patrick Swayze, which itself acquired a sequel.
Producers on the sequel embrace Atlas Leisure’s Charles Roven and Alex Gartner, and 9 Tales Productions’ Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh McLaughlin. Ivan Atkinson will government produce.
Ritchie and Gyllenhaal beforehand labored collectively on one other Amazon MGM film, “The Covenant.” Ritchie has been particularly busy of late, as he’s acquired the journey movie “Fountain of Youth” starring John Krasinski debuting subsequent month on Apple TV+. He’s already this yr had the sequence “Younger Sherlock” debut on Prime Video and the Tom Hardy sequence “Mobland” on Paramount+. His most up-to-date challenge is “Spouse & Canine,” which stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike and Sir Anthony Hopkins. Somebody purchase this man a beer the subsequent time he drops by the Street Home.
Roven can be reuniting with Amazon MGM after he produced the upcoming “Mercy” starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, a sci-fi crime thriller opening in theaters on January 23, 2026.