A spin-off from the Rocky movies, the film will revolve around what happens to boxer Apollo Creed’s family following his death at the hands of Ivan Drago in Rocky IV.

Speaking exclusively to IGN, Coogler said that talks with Rocky himself have been ongoing, with the plan for Sylvester Stallone to both produce and appear in the movie. “Rocky is such a great character and I think it would be cool to see him again” he explained. “But more than anything I’ve always been interested in supporting characters. It might just be growing up and seeing people that look like me always relegated to the side, always playing support.” [...]

“Our film is basically about what happened to this dude’s family. Where is his family right now? I feel like if you look at that, it would be ‘What if Muhammad Ali had died in the ring and he was 40-years-old? What would happen to his family?’ That is kind of what the movie is.”

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