UFC Fighter Conor McGregor Joins Jake Gyllenhaal's ROAD HOUSE Remake

MMA fighter and two-time UFC champion Conor McGregor is going to make his big movie debut in Jake Gyllenhaal’s recently announced remake of Road House.

Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow) will direct the film, and in this version of the story Gyllenhaal plays a former UFC fighter “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 in this tropical paradise.”

With the UFC playing a big role in the story, it makes sense that they would cast an MMA fighter like McGregor to be in the movie. While there are no details on who McGregor will be playing, the report says that he would be playing “an original character and not himself in the project.”

McGregor joins the previously cast 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.

There’s really no reason to remake this movie, but, that’s Hollywood for ya!