By A “Creed” spin-off film following Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago and his son Viktor (Florian Munteanu) is still in development according to Lundgren.
In July last year came the news MGM had begun developing the spin-off with Robert Lawton having been hired to pen the script.
Lawton, who penned the spec script “Becoming Rocky” about the making of the first film, would build out a backstory about Russian boxer Drago who appeared in 1985’s “Rocky IV” and returned in 2018’s “Creed II”.
In a recent interview with ScreenRant, Lundgren offered an update on the film’s status:
“MGM was developing the script called Drago about my character and my son. I think what happened was the studio changed leadership, and then Creed III did very well, so they started preparing for Creed IV.
This is last year, and then now there is a problem with a co-star in Creed IV. That storyline they had on the Drago script was interesting, it was kind of a coming to America, kind of immigration angle, with me and the son, and it was pretty cool.
It just so happened that, in Creed II, we’re in the Ukraine, in the beginning, we’re in Kyiv. That’s where the movie opens, even though it’s not really mentioned too much. But in the version of the script that I read, it starts with a Russian invasion, and in that, we go through some hard, difficult experiences that makes us want to come to America. It was kind of interesting.”
At last report back in November, it was announced that series star Michael B. Jordan would return to direct a fourth “Creed” film. However there has been no real update on “Drago” since it was first announced.
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