CREED — the Rocky spin-off — which is now a highly successful film that has grossed $103 million due to the great performances put on by Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone. Now with this being the spin-off of Rocky, one could only expect CREED to become its own franchise and while the film just released Thanksgiving 2015, the sequel is already in the works. Stallone has spoken with Variety about ideas being tossed around for the CREED sequel.
Film director Ryan Coogler has just received the pleasure of being named the official director for Marvel’s Black Panther and Stallone tells Variety that the two have yet to figure out the time frame for the film. Stallone tells Variety “I know Ryan is probably going to be gone for a couple years, so there will be a quandary on: Do we work with another director and have Ryan produce, or do we wait? There’s a diminishing time acceptance of a sequel. Now they are cranking them out in a year.”
Stallone let the cat out of the bag on one of the ideas that he shared with Coogler for the sequel, and thats bringing Apollo Creed back. How? Who knows, but when asked about it, Stallone says “Think of ‘The Godfather 2.’ That’s what he was thinking of, which was kind of ambitious.”
While the idea of seeing Apollo Creed in a film does sound appealing, fans would definitely like to see where the story for Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) goes to from CREED. Stallone also has an idea for that story as well, telling Variety “You’ll have him face a different opponent, which I would say is a more ferocious, big Russian, you can start to meld my experiences and then you start to bring different cultures into it. And you can see what’s happening with the Russians today in America. The complication will come with the girl’s ambition, because she’s not Adrian. She has places to go, things to see, the clock is running on her hearing.”
Until the official CREED sequel receives a green-light, enjoy the moments that CREED brings. Stay tuned for all updates on the upcoming film.