With the franchise successfully reinvigorated and
ready for the next round, Sylvester Stallone reveals in an interview to Variety
that he and Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station), who directed and co-wrote Creed,
have been bouncing around ideas for the sequel, including perhaps taking a trip
down memory lane and bringing back Carl Weathers to play Apollo Creed, who
died in 1985’s Rocky
IV.
"Ryan has some ideas of going forward and
backward and actually seeing Rocky and Apollo together," Stallone said, surprising
Coogler with the revelation. "Think of The
Godfather 2. That’s what he was thinking of, which was kind of
ambitious." Stallone said he’d recently bumped into Weathers, who looked
like he was still in good shape. "I can’t believe I got in the ring with
him," he says. "Even if it was play fighting."
Another possible idea would be to do a more
traditional sequel and have Adonis (Michael B. Jordan) face another fighter, and
develop Bianca's (Tessa Thompson) character arc.
"You’ll have him face a different opponent, which
I would say is a more ferocious, big Russian," Stallone says. "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."
While the idea of going back and forth in time sounds
appealing, the bigger question is whether Coogler will return to direct the Creed
sequel. The filmmaker is currently in talks with Marvel to direct Black Panther
starring Chadwick Boseman, and depending on how the negotiations go he could
end not being able direct Creed 2, which would be a shame since so much of
Creed seems to come from Coogler's voice as an artist.
"I know Ryan is
probably going to be gone for a couple years," Stallone says. "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."
Creed grossed just over
$100 million on a $35 million budget.
Source - Variety
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