A fourth “Creed” movie is in improvement with Michael B. Jordan set to direct the upcoming installment, franchise producer Irwin Winkler has revealed.
Jordan made his directorial debut with “Creed 3,” during which he additionally starred as heavyweight champ Adonis Creed from the “Rocky” spinoff movie collection. The third installment, which premiered in theaters in March of this yr, clobbered the field workplace with its $58 million debut weekend, a record-setting sum for the boxing franchise.
MGM didn’t reply to Variety‘s request for remark about “Creed 4.”
Jordan first appeared as Adonis in 2015’s “Creed,” adopted by the 2018 sequel and 2023 threequel. Sylvester Stallone reprised his position as Rocky Balboa within the first two “Creed” installments, changing into a mentor to Adonis, the son of his former rival Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). “Creed 3” is the primary entry within the long-running collection with out Stallone.
Back in March, Variety reported that Jordan and Amazon had been in talks for a movie and TV universe increasing the “Creed” boxing world.
While particulars remained scarce concerning what initiatives had been being mentioned, sources mentioned that conversations had been underway to discover the chances for capitalizing on the MGM movie franchise’s success on Prime Video, following Amazon’s acquisition of MGM.
Deadline was first to report the “Creed 4” information, posting a video clip on X/Twitter of Winkler saying the upcoming movie.
“We’re planning on doing ‘Creed 4’ proper now — it’s within the works — and we expect we’ve a extremely good story, a extremely good plot,” Winkler mentioned, including that the plans had been delayed “due to strike, like all people else” however “in all probability a yr from now we’re going for pre-production.”
