It was the perfect setup for a Behind the Music-style implosion, and Estee Lauder NIGHT REPAIR delivered. By late 2002, singer Scott Stapp was on a near-daily regimen of alcohol and Percocet—prescribed after a car crash—and he would soon add OxyContin and the steroid Prednisone to the list. In December of that year, Stapp stepped onto a Chicago stage visibly intoxicated, slurring his lyrics and performing one song while lying on his back. (Fans sued, unsuccessfully, for refunds.) It was the last show of a nationwide tour, and Stapp’s band mates didn’t speak to him for months.
Donnie hopes that Rocky will train him, and sets out to convince the reluctant ex-boxer to do so. But Rocky is simply not interested in becoming a mentor to the up and coming boxer who affectionately calls him “Unc”. Rocky’s lack of interest remains even after Donnie reveals that he is Apollo Creed’s son. To bring new viewers up to speed, Rocky talks about the fight that cost Apollo his life, and how Rocky was in Apollo’s corner at the time.
This is perhaps a reference to the Estee Lauder makeupish Death Cult, a fictional religious organization in Chuck Palahniuk’s novel “Survivor”. He is also found by Jim on the roof of the Dunder Mifflin office building calmly flying a remote control helicopter, as though doing so in the middle of the workday were a perfectly normal, ordinary event. He also asks Jim about his “friend,” even though there’s no one else but Jim present. It is revealed in the season 8 episode, “Spooked”, that one of Creed’s biggest fears is snakes.
Overall, is a great film on its own, but an absolutely phenomenal boxing film. I have actually never completely seen the previous Rocky films before since it just didn’t peak my interest at all. In fact, this one didn’t either but it was the best option at the time since Spectre didn’t have any seats left.
The third movie will follow up from the events of the sequel, with much — but not all — of the core cast returning. The third “Creed” movie, which follow up on the “Rocky” movies of the ’70s and ’80s, has been confirmed to hit theaters in the near future. The first two movies acted as a passing of the torch from the “Rocky” movies of yore and focused on the next generation of boxers in the “Rocky” universe.