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‘Creed’ Goes Into the Oscar Ring with Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone

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Michael B. Jordan is ready to beat down the competition for Best Actor in ‘Creed

First we had Jake Gyllenhaal in Southpaw and now we have Michael B. Jordan in Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station follow-up, Creed. The boxing flick has been a long-time passion project for Coogler and is aimed to bring viewers new and old to the Rocky renaissance with Jordan starring as the son of Apollo Creed, played by Carl Weathers in the original Rocky quadrilogy. A recent attempt at a reboot of the Rocky series came in 2006 with Rocky Balboa in which Sylvester Stallone attempts a final fight but this time he smartly stays out of the ring and plays mentor to Jordan instead.

Will it make much of an impact at the Oscars? It could, but then I was pretty bullish on Fruitvale Station doing that and look how that turned out. Creed, a co-production between Warner Bros. and MGM could prove to be a stronger player this year though. Warner Bros. doesn’t have much in the form of a Best Actor contender (unless somehow Johnny Depp in Black Mass pays off) so this could be their ticket.

Creed opens on a very Oscar-friendly November 25th.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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