“A great fighter once said, ‘It ain’t about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward,'” Michael B. Jordan’s ;Adonis Johnson Creed says in the first ;trailer for “Creed,” a ;”Rocky” spinoff. The film, from “Fruitvale Station” director ;Ryan Coogler, stars Jordan as the son of ;Apollo Creed, who was played by ;Carl Weathers in the first four “Rocky” films. But Adonis never met his father, who died in the ring while fighting Soviet ;Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) in “Rocky IV.” In “Creed,” Adonis picks up the gloves …
“A great fighter once said, ‘It ain’t about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward,'” Michael B. Jordan’s ;Adonis Johnson Creed says in the first ;trailer for “Creed,” a ;”Rocky” spinoff.
The film, from “Fruitvale Station” director ;Ryan Coogler, stars Jordan as the son of ;Apollo Creed, who was played by ;Carl Weathers in the first four “Rocky” films. But Adonis never met his father, who died in the ring while fighting Soviet ;Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) in “Rocky IV.” In “Creed,” Adonis picks up the gloves and gets into the ring with a little help from the legend himself, Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa. “Creed” opens Nov. 25.
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Michael B. Jordan Gets Into The Ring In First ‘Creed’ Trailer
