Creed II (2018)

2018 film directed by Steven Caple Jr.

Released

21 November 2018

Country

United States

Language

English

Genre

Boxing film

Director

Steven Caple Jr.

Screenplay

Cheo Hodari Coker, Sylvester Stallone

Producer

Sylvester Stallone, Irwin Winkler, Charles Winkler

Music

Ludwig Göransson

Cinematography

Kramer Morgenthau

Editing

Dana E. Glauberman

Starring

Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Dolph Lundgren, Florian Munteanu, Phylicia Rashad, Andre Ward, Wood Harris

Running time

129 minutes

Production company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, New Line Cinema

Distributor

Warner Bros. Entertainment

Box office

$214.2 million

Budget

$50 million

Set in

Ukraine

Creed II is a 2018 American sports drama film directed by Steven Caple Jr. from a screenplay by Juel Taylor and Sylvester Stallone. It is the sequel to Creed (2015), and the eighth installment in the Rocky franchise. It stars Michael B. Jordan, Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Wood Harris, Florian Munteanu, Phylicia Rashad, and Dolph Lundgren. In the film, under the continued tutelage of Rocky Balboa (Stallone), Adonis Creed (Jordan) faces off against Viktor Drago (Munteanu), the son of Ivan Drago (Lundgren), who became responsible for the death of Adonis' father Apollo Creed thirty-three years earlier.

Cast

• Michael B. Jordan
• Sylvester Stallone
• Tessa Thompson
• Dolph Lundgren
• Florian Munteanu
• Phylicia Rashad
• Andre Ward
• Wood Harris
• Brigitte Nielsen
• Milo Ventimiglia
• Russell Hornsby
• Jacob Duran
• Roy Jones Jr.
• Michael Buffer
• Evander Holyfield
• Sugar Ray Leonard

Series

• Preceded by: Creed
• Followed by: Creed III

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• TMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q50233658 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.