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Doug Liman received a standing ovation at the SXSW premiere of his remake of “Road House,” an event he originally vowed to boycott.
Festivalgoers chanted his name: “Doug! Doug! Doug! – at the end of a post-screening Q&A after star Jake Gyllenhaal called out the director, who was sitting in the crowd.
Gyllenhaal first announced Liman’s assistance when introducing the film, saying, “I want to thank our incredible director. He’s in the audience tonight. He’s been a friend for over 15 years, I wanted to work with him during that time, we’re very lucky. “It’s so brilliant and this movie is too.”
Of course, Gyllenhaal also thanked the company Liman’s boycott targeted. Before mentioning Liman or his co-stars, the actor said, “We have our Amazon people here, who have been fantastic,” mentioning studio boss Jennifer Salke and other executives by name.
In January, Liman wrote an open letter explaining his decision to skip his film’s debut, saying that Amazon had “asked him and the film community to trust them and their public statements about supporting theaters” and then broke that trust by deciding to stream the film on Amazon Prime Video. instead of giving it a theatrical release.
Sources said Variety In February, Amazon had given filmmakers the choice between a budget of $60 million for a theatrical release or $85 million for streaming, and the filmmakers had opted for the latter. (Liman declined to comment.) In an interview, Gyllenhaal said that “Amazon was always clear about what it was streaming.”
Besides Liman and Gyllenhaal, it was Conor McGregor who drew the most attention on Friday night, as “Road House” marked the UFC fighter’s acting debut. Before, during and after the screening, fans shouted, “Come on, Notorious!” referring to a nickname for McGregor that sounds ironic in light of the sexual assault allegations against himalthough he never faced criminal charges.
Dax Shepard, who moderated the Q&A, asked a question about McGregor’s casting in the film, although he focused on the boxer’s physique. As Gyllenhaal and McGregor’s characters engage in two intense fights in the film, he asked, “How excited were you that it was him and how much were you like, ‘I can’t do this’?”
“We were chasing Conor and waiting for him to do the movie, and suddenly we got the call that he was doing it,” Gyllenhaal said. “And you know that feeling when you buy the house you’ve always wanted and you’re like, ‘Oh shit, what did I just do?’ It was like, ‘This is the most amazing feeling,’ and then I wanted to run as far as he could.”
“Road House” opened with a title card paying tribute to Patrick Swayze, who starred in the original 1989 film. “In memory of Patrick Swayze, whose legacy of strength and greatness reminds us all to BE NICE,” it read .
On stage, when Shepard asked him which action stars he admired as a kid, Gyllenhaal shouted out Swayze again. “I would be remiss if I didn’t bring Mr. Swayze back,” he said. “Although at first it wasn’t ‘Road House.’ It was ‘Point Break’. “Afterwards, my sister took me to see ‘Dirty Dancing’ like four times.”