(Left) “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” director Ryan Coogler. (Right) Michael B. Jordan directs and stars as Adonis Creed in “Creed III.”
Preview:
- Director Ryan Coogler is developing a mysterious new movie.
- Frequent collaborator Michael B. Jordan is the star.
- The script has been described as a genre title with period elements.
Ryan Coogler has been busy in the franchise world over the past few years (shooting on the Creed and Black Panther movies), and it’s great to see him taking the opportunity to return to something he’s solely responsible for creating. superior.
Even more exciting news is that in this new movie, he will reunite with his old partner Michael B. Jordan.
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What is the new Ryan Coogler/Michael B. Jordan movie?
(L-R) Zinzi Evans and Ryan Coogler arrive for the 14th Annual Governors Awards at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on Tuesday, January 9, 2024
After working with Marvel for several years, Coogler appears to have decided to adopt their safety protocols in new scripts he sources from the studio and elsewhere.
Interested parties had to go to Coogler’s office on behalf of WME to read the script, which was kept as secretive as possible. However, The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the new, untitled project is a genre piece with period elements.
Other sources indicate that vampires may appear in the film. But we’ll have to wait and see if this is misdirection or if it’s a true element of the new story.
The script is Coogler’s first spec work since Fruitvale Station and is produced by his company Proximity Media. Coogler will next meet with the companies that inspired the script to lay out his vision.
Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan: A History
(L-R) Michael B. Jordan and Kevin Durand in “Fruitville Station.” Photo: The Weinstein Company.
Writer/director/producer Coogler and actor Jordan have a long history of working together. They broke out with 2013’s Fruitvale Station, which was a huge success at the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently crossed into mainstream appreciation.
In 2015, the duo followed up with Creed, the first spin-off of the Rocky boxing franchise, pitting Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa against his old rival and friend Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis “Donny” Creed, befriended and trained him. . Jordan played Adonis in that movie.
As a film franchise, Tenet has been a hugely profitable franchise for both of them – Coogler will produce both (so far) sequels, and Jordan has starred in all of them and directed last year Part Three.
But perhaps their biggest success to date is the first Black Panther movie, which Coogler co-wrote, produced, directed and cast Jordan as Eric Killmonger, a man of Wakandan royal descent. Disenfranchised young men plot to seize the throne of a powerful African kingdom. Coogler returned in 2022 with “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the Marvel movie that became a pop culture sensation and a box office hit.
When will the new movie be released?
Since the new film only exists in script form and is still contacting buyers, a release date has yet to be set.
(L-R) Director Michael B. Jordan and cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau on the set of their film “Creed III,” a Metro Goldwyn Mayer production movie of. Photo credit: Eli Ader. © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. all rights reserved. Creed is a trademark of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. all rights reserved.