"Creed" producer and Oscar awardee Irwin Winkler has confirmed a sequel, IndieWire reported.
Instead of focusing on Rocky Balboa, Winkler said that he will let the story revolve around Adonis Creed this time. "Next couple of weeks we'll start," Winkler said on Feb. 29. "But basically, it's about Creed [rather than Rocky]. We think that there is really a story to examine the life of Adonis Creed, and we're going ahead with it," the producer told The Hollywood Reporter.
Winkler has won a best-picture Oscar for the original "Rocky" which he shared with his then-partner Robert Chartoff and is currently expecting to start talking about the "Creed" follow up this month. Unfortunately, he did not really indicate whether the previous director for "Creed" which is Ryan Coogler, and its star Michael B. Jordan, were committed to return to work with them for the upcoming sequel.
Winkler also went ahead with Warner Bros. release despite certain issues regarding the profits to Goodfellas, which is one of the many films he has made with the award-winning director; Martin Scorsese. "We kind of separate the production from the lawyers, and they're very litigious and I hire litigious attorneys as well." He added: "I'm not happy with them. They really cheated me... I had a contract that said 100 percent of video sales goes into the pot that we share. And they had a clause in the contract that said if they license it to a third party, whatever that third party reports to them is what goes into the pot. So what they did is they licensed it to a company called Warner Home Video. And Warner Home Video took 80 percent and reported 20 percent. They said, 'Well, that's all we got.' But all the employees of Warner Home Video were hired by Warner Bros. The profits went to Warner Bros ... so it's obvious, you know, they cheated."
