{"id":22795,"date":"2013-07-25T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22795"},"modified":"2013-07-25T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T19:47:34","slug":"fruitvale-director-and-star-may-reunite-for-rocky-spin-off-creed-movie-opens-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22795","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fruitvale\u2019 Director And Star May Reunite For \u2018Rocky\u2019 Spin-Off \u2018Creed\u2019; Movie Opens Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor <b>Michael B. Jordan <\/b>and director <b>Ryan Coogler<\/b> are hot commodities in Hollywood right now due to critically-acclaimed<b> Oscar Grant<\/b> biopic <em>\u201cFruitvale Station\u201d<\/em>, which opens Friday at the theaters.<\/p>\n<p>And as the Oscar contender expands to theaters around the country, rumor has it the duo may reunite for a movie with real blockbuster potential.<\/p>\n<p><b>Coogler <\/b>is in negotiations to direct <b>Jordan<\/b> in <em>Creed<\/em>, a spin-off of the wildly successful <em>Rocky<\/em> franchise, according to Deadline.com.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jordan<\/b> would play the grandson of legendary <b>Rocky Balboa<\/b> opponent and friend <b>Apollo Creed<\/b> (played by <b>Carl Weathers<\/b> in the original <em>Rocky<\/em> and three sequels).<\/p>\n<p><b>Pictured: Director Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B. Jordan attend the after party at the New York premiere of FRUITVALE STATION, hosted by The Weinstein Company, BET Films and<\/b> <b>CIROC Vodka on July 8, 2013 in New York City.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler are hot commodities in Hollywood right now due to critically-acclaimed Oscar Grant biopic \u201cFruitvale Station\u201d, which opens Friday at the theaters. And as the Oscar contender expands to theaters around the country, rumor has it the duo may reunite for a movie with real blockbuster potential. Coogler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}