Jake Gyllenhaal's new film Road House hit with controversy as director vows to BOYCOTT premiere over Amazon's streaming-only rollout: 'I signed up to make a theatrical motion picture!'

Jake Gyllenhaal has seen his upcoming movie Road House plunged into controversy, with the director vowing to boycott the premiere over its planned streaming-only release. Jake Gyllenhaal has seen his upcoming movie Road House plunged into controversy after Amazon Prime decided to give it a streaming-only release In protest, its furious director Doug Liman wrote a Deadline guest column announcing that he will skip his own movie's premiere in March 'When Road House opens the SXSW film festival, I won’t be attending,' wrote Doug, whose filmography includes Swingers, The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. 'When Road House opens the SXSW film festival, I won’t be attending,' wrote Doug, whose filmography includes Swingers, The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith Jake stars in the Road House remake amid a string of boldface names including UFC icon Conor McGregor and The White Lotus heartthrob Lukas Gage '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.' The original movie starred Patrick Swayze as New York City bar bouncer James Dalton, who winds up working at a small-town nightclub in Missouri As he tries to keep his gruesome past shrouded in mystery, he finds himself confronted with the corrupt, violent underbelly of his new stomping grounds Doug's livid broadside in Deadline came just hours after Jake appeared in a smoldering, flesh-flashing Instagram poster for Road House. Patrick's co-stars included Sam Elliott as James Dalton's mentor and Drugstore Cowboy actress Kelly Lynch as his love interest 'Keep cool,' was a famous line from the original movie, which bowed in 1989 to a disappointing response but has since acquired a devoted cult following Jake has a longtime connection to the late Patrick Swayze, having worked with him on the beloved 2001 sci-fi thriller Donnie Darko.