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Reports: Amazon Touting ‘Creed-Verse’ Efforts With Michael B. Jordan

Deadline‘s Anthony D’Alessandro, Nellie Andreeva, and Peter White are reporting that a more unilateral TV and film campaign is in the works at Amazon following the $100+ million box office success of Creed III. According to the report, a “Creed-Verse” is brewing to create an animated series, as well as a companion live-action series, and a possible project that centers on Amara, the daughter to our protagonist in the third film portrayed by Mila Davis-Kent in her film debut. News of this comes in the wake of concurrent developments of another spin-off from the events of 2018’s Creed sequel announced last summer, briefly igniting controversy regarding the contended rights battle between producer Irwin Winkler, and Sylvester Stallone, star of the Rocky film saga and a mainstay of the franchise whose titular character bowed from the saga in the Stephen Caple Jr.-directed film. Interestingly, details at Deadline also indicate that Amazon […]

Review: Michael B. Jordan Lands A Knockout Blow With CREED III

Joe Hallett

The highly anticipated third instalment to the Creed franchise is hitting cinemas this week on 3rd March. I was lucky enough to check out the film at an early press screening thanks to Warner Bros. Pictures UK in glorious IMAX and I was not disappointed. In the opening sequence we are introduced to a young Adonis Creed sneaking out of his home to hang with his older friend Damian. They head over to a shady night club hosting a boxing show where Damian fights inside the ring winning by spectacular fashion. On the journey home we learn of Damian’s aspirations to become Olympic champion and turn pro and eventually become Heavyweight Champion of the World. Unfortunately these dreams come to a staggering halt and his World comes crashing down when a violent altercation derails any sort of a future for him. Cut to modern day and we find ourselves sharing […]

CREED III Final Trailer: Jonathan Majors Is Coming For It All!

Lee B. Golden III

Forty-seven years since the first Rocky, the legacy of the Sylvester Stallone-led franchise now comes to a head with its own successive trilogy led by Michael B. Jordan in 2018’s Creed. Its impending threequel now unfolds with Creed III with the actor making his directorial debut, in addition to starring opposite Jonathan Majors whose own career prospects have lined up excellently this year as a staple villain in the MCU, and as the star of Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams for Searchlight. The screen pair now get some more air time this week with the launch of the final trailer ahead of the film’s theatrical release from MGM. Jordan directs from a script by Keenan Coogler and Zach Baylin for a cast of new and returning faces he and Majors join along with Tessa Thompson and Phylicia Rashad to name a few. Peep the trailer below, and don’t miss our own […]

CREED III: Michael B. Jordan To Direct?

Lee B. Golden III

It was during the weekend when Deadline revealed that actor Michael B. Jordan “considering to direct” the upcoming third installment of the Creed saga. Jordan debuted the character in Creed (2015) for director Ryan Coogler, spinning off the legacy for a key character in the longstanding Rocky franchise with Sylvester Stallone reprising; Stallone retired the character in the 2018 sequel, Creed II directed by Steven Caple Jr., appearing one last time opposite Dolph Lundgren back in the role of Ivan Drago from Rocky IV. An official statement from MGM and Warner Bros. remains pending. Jordan will next appear in Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, which is currently dated for February 2021 from Paramount Pictures, pending circumstances with the current Covid-19 pandemic. More at Deadline via Collider