Rocky Movie Franchise is a series of American boxing sports-drama films. For its seventh, a spin-off-sequel Creed (2015), and eighth, Creed II (2018), the show changed its focus towards Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), the son of Rocky's deceased rival and friend Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), coached by a now-retired Rocky. All movies in the series were written or co-written from Stallone except for Creed, which was written by Ryan Coogler and Aaron Covington. John G. Avildsen directed the first picture and the fifth instalment, Coogler directed creed, Steven Caple Jr. had led creed II, and Stallone led the others.