Johnathon Schaech talks about Road House 2, Swayze and his love of the original Road House.
Couldn't clear the original name in time - so we just used Dalton as the key word...
Richard Chizmar (John's business partner) and I are big of fans of the original...
It's ROAD HOUSE MAN...
Go to the documentary for Roy London on my resume - you'll notice Patrick Swayze and I studied with the same coach...I did scenes with his wife when I first started acting...
When I was offered this I saw it as a chance to have fun honoring the first movie...its almost twenty years later.
Road House was the greatest bad movie ever made. I love it.
When we sat down to adapt...I made sure to read all the gossip from the hard core fans--saw there would be a lot negativity just because of the cult following...and that Swayze wouldn't be doing it...I wish he did it too...but when I came on he had already passed on it. So we had to go a different direction. But Will Patton is a great actor...he loved the first one also.
So real Road House fans made the movie, that's why we all signed up. But you have limits and restrictions as always with making movies... We had ten days to re write and twenty to shoot...I got us an extra day to shoot with the rewrite but that just wasn't enough time to shoot a action movie. So we all collaborated and made the best of it. We had a great time making the film and I think it shows...so breaking it down..
I adapted the original screenplay with Richard Chizmar...its our first project that has reached the shelves of Blockbuster... Which is awesome. We have a lot of great things happening with our company.
We wanted to respect the first one (Road House) in our draft...
But with all Hollywood projects there are limits...
We wanted the viewers to simple have fun and be engaged as they watch the second one. Unlike most straight to dvd projects - we knew ahead that it was intended for that...
We wanted to make a movie you can watch sitting on your couch...
With a beer.
We succeeded.
We hope people enjoy it.
Unfortunately Sony and MGM broke up prior to releasing it... So we had no support or focus with getting it out there...so for those that discover it...I hope they enjoy and have fun watching it.
Johnathon Schaech
Starring:
Johnathon Schaech as Shane Tanner
Ellen Hollman as Beau
Jake Busey as Wild Bill
Will Patton as Nate Tanner
Written by: Miles Chapman, Johnathon Schaech, Richard Chizmar
Directed by: Scott Ziehl
Produced by: Yoram Pelman
Plot Summary:
Johnathon stars in this action-packed sequel to the classic action film, Road House. When Nate Tanner, owner of the Black Pelican roadhouse, is beaten up by a local drug runner and his thugs trying to pressure him to sell them his club, his nephew Shane (Johnathon) comes to the small town to help run the club. Shane, an undercover DEA agent by profession, soon finds himself defending the roadhouse from a seemingly increasing number of drug runners, all intent on making the place their own.
Filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport Times by By Alexandyr
Kent
DVD Review: 'Road House 2'
is bloody DVD treat
Though
it's hard to believe, "Road House 2: Last Call" features more
hand-to-hand combat, scantily clad women and blood-flowing mouths than the
original film from 1989. If you read this as praise, you'll be one of many
local fans scrabbling to find a copy of the DVD on its release day: Tuesday.
The majority of the film was shot in
The story surrounds Shane Tanner
(Johnathon Schaech), a DEA agent and son of the late, great James Dalton, the
bar cooler who did most of the bone-breaking in the 1989 film.
Tanner runs to the aid of his uncle's south
"Road House 2" basically follows the path blazed by the original. The
sequel's shortcomings can be measured by the lack of absurdly amusing moments
of characterization: think Swayze's lakeside tai chi or Ben Gazzara's
zigzagging carelessly down the road in a convertible.
But do character complaints amount to anything for a straight-to-DVD sequel?
Please.
The makers of "Road House 2" deliver exactly what many fans want in a
follow-up -- more tough guys proving just how tough they are. As Tanner,
Schaech is a brutal but inventive fighter. Director Scott Ziehl has him tear
through an army of adversaries in a long but never repetitive series of tightly
choreographed battles.
It may come as a surprise to some "Road House" fans the sequel's love
interest, Beau (Ellen Hollman), isn't just a helpless babe. She's a total
bruiser. She fights the drug-runners' butterfly knife-wielding babe near the
film's end, destroying the kitchen -- and all sense of romance -- in the
process. Fans of woman-to-woman combat will love seeing the oven's warning
sign, which reads "DANGER: HOT," pop in and out of the frame as the
two kick, punch and stab each other senseless.
If you're in the mood for a DVD that pumps with enough blood to turn the
Though the story is set in south
Aintitcool.com (an excerpt from Vern's review)
None of this would work if they had chosen the wrong guy to play Shane. I
don't know how the fuck they did it but they found the exact right guy to play
Swayze's son. A while back I wrote about this sequel being in the works and I
said they should get "a Jim Belushi or a Coolio type" to play
Swayze's character. That would've been funny but they knew what they were doing
when they got this Schaech guy. He must've studied the Swayze filmography and
practiced in his backyard for years because he just has a Swayze feel down
perfectly. He talks like him, he acts like him, he kicks like him. The only
thing missing is the ridiculous hair. Schaech really puts alot into the movie
because in addition to starring, he apparently did a rewrite of the script with
his partner Richard Chizmar.
Amazon.com
This unexpected sequel to the camp-cult favorite Road House delivers much of
the same fast-n-furious action as its predecessor, though die-hard fans (and
they're out there) might miss the over-the-top dialogue and plot devices that
earned the original its reputation. Patrick Swayze, who starred in the first
Road House picture, is nowhere to be found in the sequel--instead, it's
Jonathan Schaech as a DEA agent with a connection to Swayze's character who
comes to the aid of his uncle (Will Patton in a rare non-villainous role), the
owner of a Louisiana bar that's come under siege by a local drug dealer (Jake
Busey, who chews scenery with vigor). What follows is a barrage of bar brawls
and room-wrecking stunts as Schaech takes his rightful place as the world's toughest
bouncer. Suffice it to say that if you own the
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