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,” wherein 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 12 months, 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 function as Rocky Balboa within the first two “Creed” installments, turning 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 relating to what tasks had been being mentioned, sources stated 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 asserting the upcoming movie.
“We’re planning to do ‘Creed 4’ right now — it’s in the works — and we think we have a really good story, a really good plot,” Winkler stated, including that the plans had been delayed “because of strike, like everybody else” however “probably a year from now we’re going for pre-production.”