It’s Rumor Time: Ivan Drago might actually be in Creed 2
Ryan Coogler’s Creed was much better than anyone really predicted, which means it’s pretty much guaranteed to get a sequel at some point—even if Coogler doesn’t come back. Naturally, Sylvester Stallone couldn’t be happier about the idea of a sequel, and last January he even offered up some suggestions about where the sequel should go, including a possible fight between Michael B. Jordan’s character and “a more ferocious, big Russian.” The implication there was that Stallone would like Creed 2 to include a nod to Dolph Lundgren’s Rocky IV villain Ivan Drago, who killed Carl Weathers’ Apollo Creed.
We haven’t heard much about a possible Creed sequel since then, but now Stallone has taken to Instagram to talk about Creed 2 so overtly that he’s either spoiling some big news or he’s trying way too hard to get people to listen to his ideas. This comes from /Film, which says it all started with a behind-the-scenes photo of Stallone and Lundgren on the set of Rocky IV with a Creed 2 hashtag in the caption: