Sylvester Stallone’s 10/10 Action Reboot Is Officially a Knock-Out Hit

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Sylvester Stallone’s 10/10 Action Reboot Is Officially a Knock-Out Hit

Sylvester Stallone‘s Dwight “The General” Manfredi returned last month as Taylor Sheridan‘s Tulsa King made its fourth-season debut. The Season 4 premiere, “W.W.D.D.,” written by Terence Winter and directed by Guy Ferland, was an instant hit, reaching the top of Paramount+ and continuing Sheridan’s streaming dominance. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Season 4 already boasts an 86% average approval rating from critics after the first three episodes, making it the series’ second-highest rating so far.

Governor Clark targeted Stallone’s Dwight and the rest of his crew in the last episode as the tension continues to rise on the road to the Season 4 halfway mark. There’s no doubt that the role of The General is now one of Stallone’s most famous in a career packed with iconic performances. But none defines his career more than Rocky Balboa, the ultimate sporting underdog that first graced the big screen in 1976. The character and the movie immediately became a pop culture phenomenon and scored a total of ten Academy Award nominations, winning the coveted Best Picture prize.

The Rocky franchise was far from perfect in the years following, with the five subsequent installments unable to reach the heights of the first. Then came 2015’s Creed, with the reboot of the Rocky franchise entrusted to one of the most promising young directors in Hollywood, Ryan Coogler. Following their work together on the acclaimed biographical drama Fruitvale Station, Coogler chose Michael B. Jordan to take the lead on the reboot as the titular Adonis Creed, who hires Stallone’s Rocky as his trainer and mentor. 11 years later, Creed is proving a major streaming hit, having spent 70 days in the Pluto TV top ten in the U.S.

He reads ground the way other people read a room.
He will stand between you and the worst of it without discussing it.
He says almost nothing, and never the wrong thing.

The 1982 original came from David Morrell’s 1972 novel, which ends very differently.
Stallone cut most of his own dialogue in the edit to make the character nearly silent.
Five films across thirty-seven years, from 1982 to the fifth in 2019.

He is better in the room than he is on paper, and he is excellent on paper.
He will not explain the plan, and the plan will work.
He treats charm as a tool, and it is a remarkably effective one.

Eon has made twenty-five Bond films since Dr. No in 1962, across six actors.
Denis Villeneuve is directing the next one for Amazon MGM, which took creative control in
2025.
The search for the new 007 was still running through 2026, with screen tests under way.

He has read the thing nobody else thought to read.
He will risk the whole plan for the artifact, and be right about half the time.
He improvises better than most people prepare.

The Cairo swordsman scene was improvised on the day because Harrison Ford had dysentery.
Raiders was filmed in about 73 days, which was fast even in 1981.
Dial of Destiny in 2023 was Ford’s fifth and last outing, at the age of eighty.

He turns whatever is in the room to his advantage.
He is funniest when things are at their worst.
He has never once agreed that it is over.

Die Hard came from Roderick Thorp’s novel Nothing Lasts Forever, a sequel to a book
filmed in 1968.
Nakatomi Plaza is Fox Plaza, which was the studio’s own headquarters at the time.
Bruce Willis was a television comedy actor then, and a long way down the casting list.

He takes the risk himself rather than assigning it.
He is three moves ahead and will not say which three.
He treats your survival as the actual objective.

Cruise hung off the side of an Airbus A400M at a thousand feet for the opening of Rogue
Nation.
The HALO jump in Fallout took 106 takes, filmed at dusk for the light.
The Final Reckoning in 2025 was the eighth film, and was sold as the last.

Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan Won Oscars This Year

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Since Creed, Jordan and Coogler’s partnership has gone from strength to strength. Earlier this year, they reached their highest height yet as they took home four Academy Awards for the genius vampire musical horror Sinners. Of those Academy Awards, the most high-profile was a win for Jordan in the Best Actor category. The film’s other wins included Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Original Screenplay, as well as triumphs from several other major awards bodies.

Creed is a 70-day hit on Pluto TV. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.