The gloves are on! As revealed on Twitter by Michael B. Jordan, three new posters for Creed III have simply entered the ring. Within the purple gloves we now have Jordan himself as Apollo’s son Adonis Creed. Within the black gloves we now have our first take a look at Jonathan Majors as Creed’s fearsome newest opponent, Anderson Dame. And the third banner showcases the discharge date. If there weren’t already sufficient threes on this paragraph, it’s out on 3 March 2023. Pow!

Creed III is the ninth movie within the Rocky franchise, and the primary to not characteristic Sylvester Stallone in any capability in addition to producer. There’s additionally the not-insignificant matter of it marking Jordan’s characteristic directorial debut.

Early scuttlebutt recommended that Creed’s adversary this time could be the son of Mr T’s Clubber Lang (from the unique Rocky 3). That seems to not be the case at this level – it could be one son too many, maybe, after Florian Munteanu’s Viktor Drago final time – and the precise story stays below wraps. But it surely’s fairly secure to deduce that Adonis’ private journey will proceed each within the ring and out of it. Has he met his match this time?

Tessa Thompson will return as Bianca Taylor, with Phylicia Rashad as Mary Anne Creed, Wooden Harris as Tony “Little Duke” Evers, and Munteanu additionally again as Drago Jr. Keenan Coogler and Zach Baylin wrote the screenplay, with story enter from authentic Creed director and nonetheless exec-producer Ryan Coogler, and capturing is already full as of spring this yr. Count on a drip-feed of additional information between now and subsequent March…