Does anyone know what kind of falling out he and Stallone must have had.....which now prevents a Carl Weathers cameo in these movies? A cameo from Apollo would have been epic. What a missed opportunity for some movie magic.
shareGreat point! It could only be a falling out. There is no other valid reason to not have an Apollo cameo
shareI've heard that he wanted to be in the movie "Rocky Balboa" even though Apollo is dead. Stallone refused this so Weathers didn't give permission to use the archive footages of him from the previous movies.
shareThey must mended fences recently, because there is (some) Apollo footage and images in Creed II. (Sorry if any spoilers). And, after doing some Googling, they did appear together at an awards show a couple years back, looking cordial to each other. It's too bad they couldn't come to agreeable terms for Weathers to make some sort of cameo in Creed II. Be it a flashback....or (corny as it sounds)....an image of him in the stands, willing Adonis to get up, when he was on the mat. I remember when they did a flashback scene with Mickey a few movies back, and it had a great effect. It felt like a "lost scene" between Rocky and Mickey.
shareLMAO
What was he gonna be a ghost or something?
Well they took some pictures together during the shooting of Creed 1, and I heard that they were in talks to have him appear in this so who knows? Maybe they decided to save him for some more in the third film since this one is more focused on Drago.
Woulda probably been kinda Cheesy to have Apollo appear in a dream or something to tell Adonis to avenge him.
Correction, a cameo from a 33 years older version of Creed, who is meant to be dead, would have been completely out of place.
shareYou're kind of missing the point.
Carl Weathers has aged extremely well. With a little digital movie magic, they could make him look like the Apollo Creed we knew in the early Rocky films....at least for a brief cameo scene. Whether that scene were....a "lost scene" showing Apollo saying or doing something in the past (like talking to the 12 year old version of Adonis)....or, perhaps it's just a faint glimpse of his "presence" in the crowd, there are things they could have done.
If they can bring Carrie Fisher back, and create a 1978 version of her for that recent Star Wars spinoff movie, they can young-up Carl Weathers if needed. So...the cameo wouldn't be a scene in which a dead Apollo comes back to life at age 70. It would be a "scene from the past". Use your imagination.
Yeah, I'd be all for anything like that Ripkens.
sharePerhaps if done perfectly, but generally even the best CGI looks artificial.
shareApollo died well before Adonis would have been 12.
shareSeriously? THAT is what you chose to key-in on? The specificity and accuracy of the (example) age of 12? You’re missing the point, altogether. Ok...how about a scene with Apollo talking to his NEWBORN son? Or...a scene with Apollo talking with Rocky about wanting to be a better father to his son than his dad was with him? How about a scene where Rocky is sitting alone in that restaurant of his, all sad and depressed...and has a flashback/memory of a talk he had with Apollo after Mickey’s funeral, where Apollo calls him the only real friend he’s ever had. How about a scene where Rocky’s looking at one of those pictures on the wall that Drago pointed out, a picture of Apollo...and that leads to a flashback of Apollo training him...giving him a pep talk. The kind of pep talk he so badly needs now, as a lonely old man. How about a scene.......(you get it yet?) Use your imagination. Quit focusing on the specificity of one arbitrary example.
shareYour ideas are stupid and I'm glad you are not a screenwriter.
There's no point for a cameo except fan service.
Obviously you never saw Rocky 3 where we were first introduced to Apollo's twin brother Clyde Creed. He had a stutter and a dusting of down syndrome but he was charismatic as heck fire. Bring that character back and Weathers has his cameo, and Apollo's son has a new father figure.
shareWhat happened to Mars Creed, his brother who went missing during Vietnam and lost his memory during the torture. After the war he flet to Thailand and became the best thai boxer in the world.
shareSince Stallone was reaching back for past action stars and former co-stars for his Expendables series, I had hopes that Carl Weathers might make an appearance in that franchise, if not the Creed series.
So far, nothing. I've heard rumours of an Expendables IV so I'm still hoping.