According to Variety, The Land director Steven Caple Jr. has stepped in to direct Creed 2, with original Creed director Ryan Coogler stepping back to an executive producer role as he wraps up Black Panther. Back in October, Sylvester Stallone—who appeared in the previous movie and co-wrote the sequel’s script—claimed that he was going to direct Creed 2, but Variety says that he decided not to take the job after “talking it over” with star Michael B. Jordan and the executives at Warner Bros. and MGM. Caple was then “personally picked” by Stallone and Jordan after a “lengthy search.”