Creed III is almost here, and we just had a new trailer drop on February 15th.
We have a lot more questions answered, and we finally see the return of Viktor Drago!
With the film approaching a little over 2 weeks away, what surprises are there in store
for us in the movie?
This is everything we know about Creed III... so far.
Let's breakdown the trailer scene-by-scene (and to reference, I'm breaking down the Final
Trailer that was released on 02/15, not any other teasers or trailers released prior).
The first scene shows a day of the dead performer moving colorful smoke, possibly during Felix
Chavez' entrance in the fight with Dame.
We hear Little Duke saying “The higher it gets, the harder it gets,” as we see Adonis
scream at the top of a hill, similar to Rocky screaming out Drago in Rocky IV.
We see some shots of Adonis' either office or gym, where we see the championship and
Apollo's gloves, followed by Adonis and Damian both making their way to the ring.
Bianca asks Dame how long the two have known each other, intercut with Adonis and Damian
staring each other down in the ring along with a flashback to their childhood.
Dame responds that they were like brothers, as the two stare each other down during the
scene with Bianca.
Adonis tells Bianca that “when Dame came back, the past came back,” as we see another
shot of Dame leaning on Donnie's car, followed by Bianca listening to Adonis telling her
about Dame.
We hear Mary Anne tell Donnie that Dame doesn't have his back anymore, with shots of Dame
walking into the gym and also a flashback to where Dame and Donnie were arrested.
We see Damian training, and knocking out his sparring partners while Adonis looks on.
Dame tells Adonis before he was locked up, he “was the best” and that Adonis is a
“coward and a fraud.”
The two then look at a mirror respectively, while Dame hits Felix Chavez with a brutal
shot.
Felix is then hit again and knocked out, while Adonis looks up.
We can assume Dame is the world champion now, as he tells Donnie he's "coming for it all”
while one of his associates has the belt on his shoulder.
Adonis tells Bianca that Damian “is not going to stop,” and she responds with “You
make him.”
Adonis walks into an outdoor gym at a hangar, as it also cuts to him being interviewed by
Stephen A. Smith, as the latter says he was the best pound-for-pound fighter 3 years ago.
We then see Viktor Drago in this same gym as he approaches Adonis, and spars with him
in another shot as Donnie trains and says he “walked away with unfinished business.”
Little Duke encourages Adonis to “remember the man” he sees in the mirror, as we then
see Adonis punching a tree.
Donnie is then seen moving a small plane as Dame makes his way to the ring.
We see some nice parallels of the two rivals training respectively.
Bianca pleads to Adonis to not “let him destroy everything you've built,” as we
see him awaken from the ice bath, throw something off his table, and then we see a touching
moment between Amara and Bianca.
Adonis then shows Amara how to throw a punch on the heavy bag, followed by both Adonis
and Dame staring at the wall between them.
As Damian punches Adonis in the gut, Little Duke tells Donnie not to box, but to “start
fighting.”
Adonis screams and throws a right hook as the logo comes on screen.
Here's what we know so far and what's confirmed from this trailer and the previous trailer.
There's going to be at least 3 major fights that we see in the film.
We will see a rematch between Adonis Creed and Ricky Conlan, as we saw in the earlier
trailer, Felix Chavez, who we can presume is either Donnie's student or friend vs Damian
Anderson, where the latter wins the championship, and the final fight between Adonis Creed and
Dame.
I'm going to assume that the scene where the inmates are chanting “Creed” from the
first trailer will have to do with Adonis visiting the same juvenile detention center
he was in back at the beginning of the first Creed movie.
I talked a little bit about Felix Chavez (which depending on when this is uploaded, will be
released before or concurrently with this video), but to give a brief recap – in the
earlier trailers, we can see that this is the same sparring partner Dame had where he
gets too aggressive, in a callback to Rocky V where Tommy Gunn did the same thing when
fighting in front of Rocky for the first time.
I assume Chavez is someone that Adonis or Little Duke is training, as we see his name
on posters in different shots of the gym, not to mention that we can see Adonis is angry
when Felix is defeated.
As I talked about in my Viktor Drago video, Viktor does make a return and from what we
see, he is helping Adonis train for his fight with Damian.
We know it's Adonis he's punching, as we can tell by the same shirt and the brief shot
where we can see his face as Viktor is punching him.
There seems to be also more Rocky IV-like callbacks in this film, as we see Adonis getting
back to basics and training out on an airstrip in a similar manner where he trained with
Rocky out in the desert in Creed II.
What also points to this is where Adonis is screaming on top of a hill, training with
a rope or clothesline like Rocky did in Rocky IV, and pulling a small aircraft, much how
like Rocky would pull a sled with both Paulie and logs on top of it.
Here are some of my theories and speculations of what we could see in the film.
I think it's worth pointing out that perhaps Dame's fight with Felix takes a turn for the
worse, as we see Bianca trying to make Amara look away during this fight.
Adonis is also looking shocked while the woman next to him, presumably someone related to
Felix, runs toward the ring after Felix is rocked by Damian's punch.
We can see this same woman next to Adonis in the first trailer in the overhead shot
of Felix on the ground.
The referee's shirt is notably bloodied from the fight as well, and this would also make
sense why Adonis would look up at Damian with such disdain and disbelief.
This could be another throwback to Rocky IV where Adonis witnesses his friend Felix dying
in the ring; the first trailer would also support this as Felix is seen laying in the
ring during the overhead shot while Adonis and the woman that was next to him are in
the ring.
I would even go so far to say that the scenes where we see Bianca and Adonis talking are
either in a funeral parlor or after Felix's funeral, as they seem to be very somber and
dressed in all black (at least from what we can see).
Another Rocky IV-like throwback I'll imagine we'll see is the dueling montages we'll see
between both Adonis and Damian, as we see the contrast of Donnie training out in the
wilderness while Damian is training out in public.
I suspect that the scene of Amara and Bianca both in the studio where the latter is comforting
the former is perhaps a scene where Amara is scared that her father will get hurt.
Perhaps a scene following this is when we'll see Adonis showing Amara how to punch so she
can defend herself, and to put her at ease.
I've been excited for this movie for a long time, as I am a fan of the Rocky and Creed
franchise, and while I was bummed that the movie got pushed back from its initial November
release date, fairly soon we'll see how this movie turns out.
This will also be the first Creed movie without Sylvester Stallone in it, and Michael B. Jordan
has even teased a Creed IV.
As long as the writing is consistent with the first two films, I think that we could
see more Creed sequels in the future, as long as they don't overdo it.
As I previously talked about in my Viktor Drago video, I'm very happy to see the two
working together in a similar manner to where Apollo helped train Rocky in Rocky III, and
perhaps we can see more of this friendship in the future.
All in all, I'm excited for this film and can't wait to share my thoughts once I see
it.
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