DEAR WHITE PEOPLE's Tessa Thompson Boards New 'Rocky' Film CREED

According to Deadline, DEAR WHITE PEOPLE star Tessa Thompson will lead MGM's new ROCKY film CREED, opposite Sylvester Stallone and Michael B. Jordan.

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FRUITVALE STATION's Ryan Coogler will helm the project, which is set to begin production in January of 2015. The project will be filmed in Philadelphia, the setting for the original ROCKY films.

Boxers Andre Ward and Tony Bellew are also allegedly in talks to join the cast.

CREED centers on the grandson of Apollo Creed. Jordan will star as the grandson, Adonis Creed, who is being mentored by Rocky Balboa (Stallone). Bellew would play Creed's nemesis, Pretty Ricky Porter. No word yet on who Ward would portray.

Other characters expected to be featured are Adonis's deaf half-sister, a potential romantic interest for Adonis, a character named Joe who co-owns Mickey's gym with Rocky, a former boxer named Pete, and a "Mickey-like" character named Marcel, who's Latino and assists with Adonis's training.

Thompson just won the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor for DEAR WHITE PEOPLE and is also nominated for this year's NAACP Image Award for Best Actress. She also recently appeared on the big screen in SELMA and will next be seen in THE PROP IS THE GIRL and LIVING ROOM COFFIN.

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