Rocky franchise producer Irvin Winkler confirmed the development of a fourth installment of the Creed saga with Michael B. Jordan at the helm, according to Deadline’s Destiny Jackson. Winkler made the announcement on Saturday during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles, telling the audience “We are planning to do Creed IV right now”. He added:
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.
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.
It was during the weekend when Deadline revealed that actor Michael B. Jordan “considering to direct” the upcoming third installment of the Creed saga.
(l) Cheryl Corman/Montclair Film/Wiki Commons; (r) Joan Hernandez Mir/Wiki Commons
Late Wednesday evening, IGN published the first official look at actor Michael B. Jordan in the new espionage thriller, Without Remorse, opening in theaters September 2020. The film hails from Paramount Pictures and centers on Jordan’s latest incarnation as Tom Clancy staple John Clark, origin story of John Clark, a Navy SEAL-turned-CIA ops officer whose mission of vengeance opens a door to an even darker, more dangerous conspiracy.
Comic book creator Dennis Liu’s 2015 release, Raising Dion, finally comes to life with the first official trailer and poster for the new Netflix series. Carol Barbee created and serves as exec producer with Liu, and with co-star Michael B. Jordan for the new nine-episode fantasy drama streaming on October 4.
Actor Michael B. Jordan is still poised to take the lead in a revival of classic heist pic, The Thomas Crown Affair. For this, there’s word from Deadline that Marvel movie directors Anthony and Joe Russo may be in the running to helm the project.
SOUTHPAW, written by Kurt Sutter of the successful, long-running show Sons of Anarchy, came out in July of 2015. Ryan Coogler’s CREED, co-written with Aaron Covington, released four months later of the same year. Before seeing either of them, I expected to enjoy Creed but like Southpaw better, aesthetically. I have always been a huge fan of the Rocky series, but I was more recently a fan of Sons, so there, admittedly, was bias filled in my assumption that went beyond my reaction to their inaugural trailers. I was wrong, it turned out. Southpaw, though I loved it and still do, was, well, written by a television writer and felt like it. This is not to say it was bad by any measure, but the emotional beats bordered a bit much on the grandiose. And while this is great for a show with the breathing room of a serial, as a device it was constricted by the tight conventions of cinema and in the movie registered as ..depressing.
Trade news sources are confirming a September 18, 2020 release date for Tom Clancy novel adaptation, Without Remorse. The news arrived on Monday on the same day the film’s lead actor Michael B. Jordan, landed a lucrative first-look TV deal with Amazon Studios.
In one of the most brilliant and best moves made in cinema, Paramount is now segueing to prolific screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone, Hell Or High Water) pen the script for Without Remorse, first on the block for the studio’s two developing Tom Clancy adaptations; the other being Rainbow Six.
Director Stefano Sollima (Gomorrah) sought last year to continue the amazing progress left by Denis Villenueve with Sicario 2: Day Of The Soldado, and he did so in spades. The dark, chilling world of danger and espionage runs provenly high in his storytelling skillset – one that will now apply to his next foray in Paramount’s Without Remorse, based on the seventh book in the late Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series.
Looking to add to his schedule going into the fourth quarter with 2019 around the corner, Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther, upcoming Creed 2) has been tapped to star in The Silver Bear for Lionsgate. As Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline reports, film rights to the book were nabbed last December by Nickel City Pictures whose Vishal Rungta, Ankur Rungta and Mark Fasano are producing with Jordan at Outlier Society.
In the wake of one of the most applauded franchises and its rousing 2016 spin-off, it wasn’t enough for there to be just a Creed 2 in this day and age. Such a franchise dare not forget the explosive chapter that unfolded 33 years ago when Rocky IV sought to serve as the page-turning social commentary relevant for its time.
Reprising from the first film are Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Wood Harris and Andre Ward and now adds Russell Hornsby, and Florian “The Big Nasty” Munteanu as Viktor Drago as the hulking offspring of Dolph Lundgren’s relentless Rocky IV antagonist who also makes his return to the fray.
Save your energy for future teaser footage to come. Until then, that right there below is the first official teaser poster for Creed 2. Take it all in!
Starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon, Fahrenheit 451 is based on Ray Bradbury’s classic novel. In a future where the media is an opiate, history is rewritten and “firemen” burn books, Jordan plays Montag, a young fireman who struggles with his role as law enforcer. Battling his mentor, fire captain Beatty, played by Shannon, he forsakes his world in an effort to regain his humanity.
Stephen Caple Jr. is taking the reigns following Ryan Coogler’s 2015 hit film starring Michael B. Jordan in the title role spinning off the classic boxing saga and now reprising accordingly next to Stallone as his mentor. A November 21 release from Warner Bros. and MGM is in tow for the film along with all else now with Stallone piling up on teases for a fourth Expendables film as of last week. Oy…
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