Lovecraft Country Star In Talks To Play Creed 3 Villain

Lovecraft Country Star In Talks To Play Creed 3 Villain

Jonathan Majors, star of HBO’s Lovecraft Country, is reportedly in negotiations to play Michael B. Jordan’s boxing adversary in Creed 3.

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Lovecraft Country Star In Talks To Play Creed 3 Villain

Jonathan Majors, star of HBO’s Lovecraft Country, is in talks to play the villain in Creed 3. After the final Rocky film in 2006, the spinoff series, Creed, shifted the focus to Michael B. Jordan’s character. Released in 2015, the first film introduced Adonis Johnson (Jordan), the son of Rocky’s deceased mentor and former rival Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). Helmed by a pre-Black Panther Ryan Coogler, Creed brought back Rocky as Adonis’ trainer, earning Sylvester Stallone a second Oscar nod for playing the character.

Many fans of the original Rocky saga were apprehensive about a reboot, but Creed quickly eased those fears. The film was a critical and commercial success, paving the way for a sequel in 2018. Creed II brought back another iconic Rocky character, Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), the man who killed Apollo in the ring, to coach his son Viktor in a bout against Adonis. With Steven Caple Jr. taking over as director, the sequel was a greater commercial success than the first, though the critical response dipped slightly. Earlier this year, it was announced that Michael B. Jordan himself would direct the third film in the series, and now the cast is beginning to take shape.

According to Deadline, Jonathan Majors is in talks to star in Creed 3. The Lovecraft Country star is reportedly in negotiations to play Adonis’ opponent in the ring. Majors exploded onto the acting scene recently with The Last Black Man in San Francisco in 2019 and followed it up with a notable 2020 that included a leading role in HBO’s critically-acclaimed series Lovecraft Country. Majors most recently co-starred in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods and will play Kang The Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

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These talks are still ongoing and considering Majors’ increasingly busy schedule, some logistics will have to be worked out before he officially joins the cast of Creed 3. So far, the threequel’s confirmed cast includes Tessa Thompson as Adonis’ love interest Bianca and Phylicia Rashad as his mother, both of whom will be reprising their roles. However, Sylvester Stallone will not be returning.

Creed 3 is expected to be a major deviation from the rest of the Rocky franchise. For starters, it will be the first installment not to star Stallone as the beloved hard-nosed boxer. The highly-anticipated franchise film will also be Jordan’s directorial debut. His first task as helmer on Creed 3 is casting a worthy adversary for Adonis in the ring, and Majors absolutely appears to fit the bill.

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