After Creed III walloped its way to a $100 million opening weekend last week, it’s no surprise that Michael B. Jordan’s Rocky spin-off franchise is said to be warming up for a few more rounds. Now, according to Deadline, plans are in place for Jordan to build a bigger ‘Creed-verse’, with spin-offs of its own and sequels galore bound for Amazon.
It’s very early days, so we’re nowhere near the walk-out to the ring yet (it’s more like the bit in the training montage where Rocky’s trudging through the train depot in the murky morning light than the bit where he’s bounding around at the top of the Philly Museum of Art steps), so details are unconfirmed at the minute. But, the word is that the Creed-verse could be expanded with a TV series spin-off, as well as an anime series which connects to the Creed movies. (Jordan is a huge anime fan, and has spoken much about how Creed III, his directorial debut, was influenced by boxing anime series.) A third mooted show could focus on Creed’s daughter Amara, played by first-timer Mila Davis-Kent. Plus, given the big-business of Creed III, it wouldn’t be surprising if a fourth film was greenly too.
Whether any of those TV series could act as a WandaVision-style bridge between the world of Creed and that of the upcoming Drago movie spin-off – following Rocky’s old Soviet comrade Ivan ‘I must break you’ Drago (Dolph Lundgren) and his son Viktor – is yet to be seen, but it’s worth keeping a bloodied, swollen eye on. Ding ding!