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Creed II Dvd

In 1985, Ivan Drago killed Apollo Creed in a tragic boxing match. Under the guidance of his trainer Rocky, Apollo’s son Adonis confronts Drago’s son in an ultimate showdown.

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Creed II is a 2018 American sports drama film directed by Steven Caple Jr. and written by Sylvester Stallone and Juel Taylor from a story by Sascha Penn and Cheo Hodari Coker. A sequel to 2015’s Creed and the eighth installment in the Rocky film series, it stars Michael B. Jordan, Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Dolph Lundgren, Florian Munteanu, Wood Harris and Phylicia Rashad. Creed writer-director Ryan Coogler serves as an executive producer on the film. The film follows a fight over 33 years in the making, as Adonis “Donnie” Creed meets a new adversary in the ring: Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago, the powerful athlete who took the life of Donnie’s father Apollo Creed in 1985’s Rocky IV.

A Creed sequel was confirmed in January 2016, but due to both Coogler and Jordan’s involvement in Black Panther, the film was delayed, with Coogler ultimately being replaced by Caple. Stallone completed the script in July 2017 and announced Lundgren would be reprising his role as Drago, and filming began in Philadelphia in March 2018, lasting through June.

Creed II was released in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer through their distribution joint venture with Annapurna Pictures (which was later rebranded as United Artists Releasing) and internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 21, 2018. The film grossed $214 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances, character development, and Caple’s direction, while noting its predictability.

Plot

In 2018, three years after his loss to “Pretty” Ricky Conlan, Adonis “Donnie” Creed wins six straight bouts, culminating in a victory over Danny “Stuntman” Wheeler to win the WBC World Heavyweight Championship. Now a worldwide star, Donnie proposes to his girlfriend, Bianca Taylor, who agrees to marry him. When Bianca suggests starting a new life together in Los Angeles, Donnie is reluctant to leave Philadelphia as it would mean leaving Rocky.

Ivan Drago, the former Soviet boxer who killed Donnie’s father, Apollo Creed, during a boxing bout in 1985 before losing to Rocky Balboa sees an opportunity to regain glory. Assisted by promoter Buddy Marcelle, Ivan pits his son, Viktor Drago, against Donnie. When Rocky refuses to support Donnie’s decision to accept Viktor’s challenge, Donnie leaves for Los Angeles.

Donnie and Bianca settle down in a luxurious apartment in Los Angeles close to Donnie’s adoptive mother and Apollo’s widow, Mary Anne. As they adjust to their new life and prepare for the upcoming match with Viktor, Bianca learns that she is pregnant. Donnie recruits Tony “Little Duke” Evers, son of his father’s trainer and later Rocky’s trainer, to start training him. Overwhelmed with his life’s recent developments, he rushes into the match and is badly injured. Viktor is disqualified for hitting Donnie while he is down, allowing Donnie to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. Viktor becomes extremely popular in Russia and wins a series of fights with top billing.

His body and ego shattered, Donnie becomes increasingly disconnected from Bianca. Mary Anne reaches out to Rocky, who reconciles with Donnie and agrees to train him for a rematch against Viktor, who is suffering torturous physical tests by his father. Bianca gives birth to a daughter, Amara, and Rocky is named her godfather. Donnie and Bianca’s fears are realized when they learn that Amara is born deaf, after inheriting it from her mother’s progressive hearing disorder.

While Viktor taunts Donnie publicly, he faces constant pressure from his father, who enjoys the attentions of the media and various Russian delegates. At a state dinner, he and Ivan meet Ludmilla, his mother and Ivan’s ex-wife, for the first time in several years after she abandoned them after Ivan’s loss to Rocky. Enraged at the sight of his mother, Viktor chastises Ivan for his interactions with the people who made them outcasts. Meanwhile, Rocky and Little Duke retrain Donnie in a decrepit location in the California desert, focusing on fighting from within and training Donnie’s body to absorb the heavy impact he will receive from Viktor in the ring.

In Moscow, the rematch is more balanced as a more controlled and focused Donnie exchanges equal blows with Viktor. Since Viktor is accustomed to winning by knockout, his fights have never lasted beyond the fourth round, which Donnie uses to his advantage as he endures Viktor’s heavy beating, even after his ribs are broken. In the tenth round, Donnie unleashes sequence after sequence of effective blows and knocks Viktor down twice. Ludmilla departs after the second knockdown, upsetting Viktor, and Ivan sees the truth of Viktor’s earlier statements. Viktor becomes exhausted, cornered and receives multiple strikes without defending himself, but is unwilling to go down. Realizing that his son’s safety means more to him than acceptance from Russia’s elite class, Ivan throws in the towel, thus forfeiting the fight to Donnie to protect his son. Ivan assures the distraught Viktor it is okay that he lost, and embraces him. As Bianca enters the ring to celebrate with Donnie and Little Duke, Rocky recuses himself, telling Donnie that “It’s your time”, and takes a seat to watch them from outside the ring.

Viktor and Ivan later train together back in Ukraine. Rocky travels to Vancouver to make peace with his own estranged son, Robert, and meets his grandson Logan for the first time, noting how much he looks like Adrian. Donnie visits Apollo’s grave where he makes peace with his deceased father and the burden of carrying on his legacy, as he and Bianca introduce his granddaughter, who is wearing a new set of hearing aids.

Cast

See also: List of Rocky characters
Main cast
Michael B. Jordan as Adonis “Donnie” Creed: An underdog but talented heavyweight boxer, he is the son of world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. His real name is Adonis Johnson, but he fights as Adonis Creed.
Sylvester Stallone as Robert “Rocky” Balboa, Sr.: A two-time world heavyweight champion and Apollo’s best friend and former rival who becomes Adonis’s avuncular trainer and mentor. He owns and operates an Italian restaurant in Philadelphia named after his deceased wife, Adrian.
Tessa Thompson as Bianca: Adonis’s girlfriend, who becomes his fiancée and the mother of his child. She is also a singer-songwriter with progressive hearing loss.
Phylicia Rashad as Mary Anne Creed: Apollo’s widow and Adonis’s stepmother, who takes in Adonis as a child following the death of Adonis’ biological mother.
Wood Harris as Tony “Little Duke” Evers: One of Wheeler’s trainers. His father, Tony “Duke” Evers, was a father-figure for Apollo as well as his trainer when Apollo became world heavyweight champion. He then became one of Rocky’s trainers after Apollo’s death. He trains Adonis for his fight with Viktor and later assists Rocky in training Adonis for his rematch with Viktor.
Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago: Russia’s former prize champion boxer, who, with the secret use of steroids and advanced training, gained worldwide attention due to his brute strength that had not been seen before. Years prior, he killed Apollo Creed during an exhibition boxing match, and was later defeated by Rocky. Having been disgraced in Russia, he relocated to Ukraine to raise his son Viktor, whom he also trained to box.
Florian “Big Nasty” Munteanu as Viktor Drago: Ivan’s son who is a burly and ruthless boxer, and Adonis’s new rival.
Supporting cast
Russell Hornsby as Buddy Marcelle: A boxing promoter who sets up the match between Adonis and Viktor.
Milo Ventimiglia as Rocky Balboa Jr.: Rocky’s estranged son, who moved to Vancouver in the period between Rocky Balboa and Creed and is now a father himself.
Andre Ward as Danny “Stuntman” Wheeler: A heavyweight boxer and Adonis’s rival whom Adonis beats to become the heavyweight champion.
Brigitte Nielsen as Ludmilla Drago: Ivan’s ex-wife and Viktor’s mother who left the pair during the latter’s infancy.
In addition, Robbie Johns appears briefly as Logan Balboa, Robert’s son and Rocky’s grandson. Archive footage of Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed is used throughout the film, with the actor’s likeness also appearing through the use of photographs and murals.

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