Sylvester Stallone Outlined the ‘Creed II’ Fights, But Director Steven Caple Jr. Wrote the Humanity

Director Steven Caple Jr.

had one feature under his belt, “The Land,” a gritty personal story set in his hometown of Cleveland.

He was proud of the movie, but more importantly, it was a good representation of his voice as a filmmaker.

Having only graduated USC grad school in 2014, where he overlapped with his friend and mentor Ryan Coogler during the “Black Panther” director’s last year of school, he had very real doubts about the pitfalls of taking over the “Rocky” franchise Coogler and star Michael B.

Jordan had completely reinvented.“Even taking the job there was this huge level of uncertainty: ‘Is this the right thing for me to do or should I not do it?,’” said Caple in a recent interview with IndieWire.

“I don’t want to do sequels for the rest of my life.

I really like the first one, am I going to drop another?

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