Conor McGregor headbutts Jake Gyllenhaal in trailer for Road House remake

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Conor Mcgregor Headbutts Jake Gyllenhaal In Trailer For Road House Remake
Conor McGregor has previously been in a documentary and lent his voice to a video game. Photo: PA
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By Charlotte McLaughlin, PA Senior Entertainment Reporter

Conor McGregor and Jake Gyllenhaal are seen fighting in a trailer for upcoming film Road House.

The remake of the 1980s film sees Oscar-nominated actor Gyllenhaal, playing a former UFC fighter called Elwood Dalton, who takes a job as a bouncer at a roadhouse in the Florida Keys.

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In the teaser, Irish former UFC champion McGregor as Knox arrives in the bar and says: “Looks like you’re having a smashing night” before starting to hit things with a weapon.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor star in Road House (Laura Radford/Prime Video)

Before headbutting him, Knox then says: “Dalton, I got a tip for you. Don’t let no-one get this close.”

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They then fight while Knox appears to terrorise Dalton’s life amid a businessman trying to build a resort and shut down the bar.

A previous Road House starred Patrick Swayze as James Dalton, a New York City bouncer hired to protect a bar in Jasper, Missouri.

Dublin-born McGregor has previously been in a documentary, Conor McGregor: Notorious – which charts the fighter’s rise from living on benefits to becoming a multiple champion in the UFC, and lent his voice to the video game Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

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The 35-year-old announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, on New Year’s Eve that he would make a UFC comeback.

Jake Gyllenhaal Screen Talk – BFI London Film Festival 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal (Ian West/PA)

He last fought in July 2021, when he broke his leg during a defeat against Dustin Poirier, and will now take American Michael Chandler during International Fight Week.

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McGregor’s last win came in January 2020.

Gyllenhaal, who was nominated for an Academy Award for romantic film Brokeback Mountain along with his co-star Heath Ledger, is known for sleepwalking teenager in cult classic Donnie Darko.

He has also starred in Zodiac, about a Californian serial killer of the same name, and as a journalist selling film to TV stations in Nightcrawler.

Road House will be released on Amazon’s Prime Video on March 21st.

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