After having previously been adamant about not attending the event due to changes in the movie’s release plan, director Doug Liman has reversed his boycott of Road House‘s South by Southwest premiere. Jake Gyllenhaal leads the cast of the action remake as Elwood Dalton, a former UFC fighter who takes up a job at the titular bar in the Florida Keys, only to run afoul of corrupt local individuals who want to claim ownership of the land. Having already endured a lengthy development, the movie has been mired with behind-the-scenes controversies surrounding its streaming release.
