goes to a pretty important place: building up Damian Anderson, the eerie, Jonathan Majors-played villain. Most importantly, the time we would've spent watching Balboa apologize to Rocky Balboa Milo Ventimiglia Jr. Spend real time with his young daughter, who is deaf-and very curious about dad's old gig where he beat up on other men. When Creed III opens, Adonis has entered his Rocky IV, retired-robot-servant-in-a-mansion era. Turns out, when you don't have to squish in the scene where Uncle Rocky flies to LAX for a visit and gurgles, "Heyyy, kiddd," to Adonis, you can do a lot! Jordan relishes in the sudden free time. The first thing you'll notice about the first Rocky-less Rocky movie is that it feels. The character never truly stood on his own until he was forcibly separated from the Italian Stallion. Because while Stallone metaphorically tumbling down the art museum steps and out of sight is sad for series loyalists, it's actually the best thing that could've happened to Jordan's Adonis Creed. I want to keep the rest of this about Creed III. I'll spare you the deleted Instagram where Stallone called Winkler, and I quote, a "PATHETIC 94 year old PRODUCER," in response to reports of an upcoming Ivan Drago spinoff, which Stallone has also chirped at Lundgren about. Stallone and Lundgren Are Beefing Like It's 1985."You can't make peace with someone who’s been so, so nefarious, in my opinion," he said. Fast-forward to late 2022, and Stallone is telling SiriusXM's Jessica Shaw that he'll "never" see Creed III, because of his squabbles with Winkler. In the same story, Winkler claims that Stallone's stake in 2016's Creed alone netted him $10 million. "I have zero ownership of Rocky,” Stallone told Varietyin 2019. It made Stallone's career but the success was in some ways bittersweet. Of course, Rocky went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the franchise became a box-office heavyweight. He agreed to sell the rights to producer Irwin Winkler for a measly $360,000 on the condition that he'd get to star in the film. Stallone was a struggling young actor looking for his breakout role when he wrote an inspired screenplay about an underdog boxer. If you haven't heard the infamous story, let's throw it back to Rocky's 1976 debut. Jordan-directed Creed III this weekend, you'll notice that not only is Rocky suddenly missing from his own spinoff franchise, but that he goes mostly (almost defiantly!) unmentioned. Adrian! ADRIAN! A D R I A N! Sylvester Stallone is beefing with the curmudgeonly producer of the Rocky movies-and Dolph Lundgren, too-and he's on the outs!
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