Posted by | Cyrena Rose
Deadline is reporting Director Ryan Coogler & Michael B. Jordan will team-up again in a Rocky spin-off entitled Creed.
This comes in the wake of a strong summer platform opening for Fruitvale Station, the film that won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Awards at Sundance, and captured Prize Of The Future at the Cannes Film Festival, where Coogler and Jordan were the talk of the town.
No, it’s not what you think ~ it is not the seventh film in the Rocky series. Instead, the intention is for Jordan to play the grandson of Apollo Creed (played in the early movies by Carl Weathers).
MGM is setting Coogler to direct Creed, and the studio is in early talks with Coogler’s Fruitvale Station star Michael B. Jordan to play the grandson of Apollo Creed in a continuation of the Rocky saga that Coogler is going to write with Aaron Covington.
Yes! Sylvester Stallone will reprise Rocky Balboa as a retired fighter-turned-trainer.
Jordan’s character is raised in an upper-crust home thanks to the ring riches earned by his grandfather, the young man doesn’t have to box and his family doesn’t want him to. Yet, he has the natural instinct and gifts and potential that made his grandfather the heavyweight champion until Rocky Balboa took his crown in 1979′s Rocky II. Creed’s grandson needs a mentor and turns to Balboa, who is out of boxing completely and not eager to return.
Coogler intends to plug back into the mythology of the first three Rocky films, which were the best ones, and then move the story forward. Jordan seems perfect for the role, given his charisma and intensity, and the fact he’s a natural athlete and was a most convincing quarterback in the final seasons of Friday Night Lights.
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