EXCLUSIVE: MGM and first time director Michael B. Jordan have set their sights on Lovecraft Country star Jonathan Majors to be his adversary in the ring for Creed III, sources said.
Negotiations are underway for Majors to star in the film as Adonis Creed’s ring nemesis.It’s the latest big movie role looming for Majors, who is coming off the first season of the critically lauded HBO hit series Lovecraft Country.
His rise to A-list from his 2019 breakout in The Last Black Man in San Francisco has been meteoric. Majors most recently co-starred in the Spike Lee-directed Da 5 Bloods for Netflix, and he is set to play Kang The Conqueror in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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