Lower than two months after the discharge of Prime Video’s remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal, a Highway Home sequel movie is within the works.
Per Selection, Gyllenhaal is about to reprise his position as Dalton within the upcoming movie. Different particulars, together with whether or not director Doug Liman may even return, are unknown at the moment.
In accordance with Amazon MGM Studios, the primary installment “has attracted almost 80 million worldwide viewers to-date. The movie premiered on Prime Video March 21 and attracted a record-breaking over 50 million worldwide viewers over its first two weekends, changing into Amazon MGM Studios’ most-watched produced movie debut ever on a worldwide foundation.”
In her overview of Highway Home, Senior Leisure Editor Liz Shannon Miller famous that whereas director Doug Liman could have been fuming about Amazon’s choice to not launch the movie theatrically, it didn’t precisely matter: “The unique movie turned a cult favourite not theatrically however as a house video and cable mainstay, and the remake’s streaming launch signifies that this movie will simply skip the wait to observe in that custom: A mainstay of the slumber social gathering circuit, a terrific film to observe whereas lazying round on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon, or a date evening for drained mother and father on the lookout for one thing enjoyable to observe after the youngsters are asleep.”
Time will inform if the following installment of Highway Home will make its approach to the massive display screen as a substitute of going straight to Prime Video, however regardless, the motion will likely be again in all of its B-movie glory. The unique 1989 movie was given a direct-to-DVD sequel in 2006, however didn’t function any of the identical actors from the primary installment and was broadly panned.
Jake Gyllenhaal, in the meantime, is continuous his busy 2024 with a starring position in Apple TV+’s upcoming sequence Presumed Harmless, which premieres on June twelfth.
