Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan Reunite for New Movie

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(Left) ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ director Ryan Coogler. (Right) Michael B. Jordan directs and stars as Adonis Creed in ‘Creed III.’

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Director Ryan Coogler is working on a mysterious new movie.
Regular collaborator Michael B. Jordan is attached to star.
The script is described as a genre title with period elements.

Having been busy in franchise world for the last few years (working on ‘Creed’ and ‘Black Panther’ movies), it’s good to see Ryan Coogler taking the opportunity to get back to something he’s solely responsible for creating.

And in even more exciting news, this new movie will find him reuniting with regular collaborator Michael B. Jordan.

What’s the new Ryan Coogler/Michael B. Jordan movie?

(L to R) Zinzi Evans and Ryan Coogler arrive at the 14th Governors Awards in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on Tuesday, January 9, 2024

After a few years of working with Marvel, it seems that Coogler has decided to adopt their security protocols for the new screenplay he’s shopping around to studios and elsewhere.

Interested parties had to visit the offices of Coogler’s representatives, WME, to read the script, which is being kept as mysterious as possible. The Hollywood Reporter, nevertheless, has learned that the new, untitled project is a genre piece that will have period elements.

And other sources are pointing to the potential inclusion of vampires in the movie. But we will have to wait and see whether that is misdirection or an actual element in the new story.

The script is a spec effort, the first from Coogler since ‘Fruitvale Station’ and produced via his company, Proximity Media. Coogler will next meet with companies who spark to the script to lay out his vision.

Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan: A History

(L to R) Michael B. Jordan and Kevin Durand in ‘Fruitvale Station.’ Photo: The Weinstein Company.

Writer/director/producer Coogler and actor Jordan have a solid history of working together. They broke out together with 2013’s ‘Fruitvale Station’, which was a big success at the Sundance Film Festival and then crossed over in to mainstream appreciation.

The pair followed that up in 2015 with ‘Creed’, the first of the spin-offs from the ‘Rocky’ boxing franchise that saw Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa befriending and training Adonis “Donnie” Creed, the son of old rival and friend Apollo Creed. Jordan played Adonis in that movie.

As a movie series, ‘Creed’ would go on to be a lucrative one for both of them –– Coogler would produce the two (so far) sequels, with Jordan starring in all and directing the third last year.

But perhaps their biggest success to date has been the first ‘Black Panther’ movie, which Coogler co-wrote, produced and directed and cast Jordan as Erik Killmonger, a disenfranchised young man of Wakandan royal descent who plots to take the throne of the powerful African Kingdom. The Marvel movie became a pop cultural sensation and a box office hit, with Coogler returning for ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ in 2022.

When will the new movie be in theaters?

As the new movie exists only as a script and is still connecting with buyers, it doesn’t yet have a release date.

(L to R) Director Michael B. Jordan and cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau on the set of their film ‘Creed III,’ A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film. Photo credit: Eli Ade. © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved. Creed is a trademark of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.