{"id":9508,"date":"2026-05-19T23:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:28:11","slug":"amazons-creed-universe-series-delphi-sets-cast-as-rocky-spin-off-enters-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/amazons-creed-universe-series-delphi-sets-cast-as-rocky-spin-off-enters-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Creed Universe Series Delphi Sets Cast As Rocky Spin-Off Enters Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/amazons-creed-universe-series-delphi-sets-cast-as-rocky-spin-off-enters-production.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>It may be hard to believe, but it&#8217;s somehow been three years already since Michael B. Jordan&#8217;s knockout directorial debut <em>Creed III<\/em> hit cinemas, delivering a haymaker at the box-office and swiftly spawning talk of a sprawling new Creed-verse from MBJ&#8217;s Outlier Society label. Now, per <em>Deadline<\/em>&#8216;s reporting, one of Jordan&#8217;s spin-off-of-a-spin-off plans (lest we forget, the <em>Creed<\/em> series <em>is<\/em> itself a <em>Rocky<\/em> off-shoot) \u2014 namely Prime Video bound elite boxing academy series <em>Delphi<\/em> \u2014 has actually revealed its line-up and entered production in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Hailing from showrunner Marco Ramirez (<em>The Defenders<\/em>, <em>Daredevil<\/em>), <em>Delphi<\/em> &#8220;follows a group of gifted young boxers in an elite academy fighting to achieve their dreams and reach the pinnacle of the sport.&#8221; Among <em>Delphi<\/em>&#8216;s young boxers will be dysfunctional brothers Santi (Benji Santiago) and Nico Torres (Juan Castano), and introverted, anxious, yet incredibly talented wunderkind Kai Katsaros (Victoria Vourkoutiotis). They&#8217;re joined by Demi\u00e1n Bichir as tough-love Torres family patriarch (and gym owner) Hector; Andr\u00e9 Holland as boxing strategist and Delphi Academy lead instructor Teddy \u2018T-Bone\u2019 Parker; Andre Royo as walking boxing encyclopaedia Elmer Tatum, a man who &#8216;can predict a final outcome based on what the fighters had for breakfast&#8217;; Sofia Black-D\u2019Elia as accountant with elite boxing academy trainer ambitions Bobbi Weiss; and Wood Harris as Little Duke, legendary trainer of Apollo Creed and current trainer of Delphi Academy&#8217;s new contenders.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Ramirez is cooking already here with a rock-solid ensemble of instantly intriguing-sounding characters and a hooky <em>Cobra Kai<\/em>-ish premise, and that&#8217;s even without knowing anything about the rest of the series&#8217; regulars: Niles Fitch&#8217;s Dante, Dasan Frazier&#8217;s Remy, Graham Patrick Martin&#8217;s Jackson, Brittany Adebumola&#8217;s Mina, Rene Moran&#8217;s Iggy, Okieriete Onaodowan&#8217;s Freddie, and Breanna Yde&#8217;s Ana. We look forward to finding out whether Michael B. Jordan and co&#8217;s latest entry in the expanded <em>Rocky<\/em> universe is gonna fly now \u2014 or if it&#8217;s got the streaming equivalent of a glass jaw \u2014 whenever it eventually lands on Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be hard to believe, but it&#8217;s somehow been three years already since Michael B. Jordan&#8217;s knockout directorial debut Creed III hit cinemas, delivering a haymaker at the box-office and swiftly spawning talk of a sprawling new Creed-verse from MBJ&#8217;s Outlier Society label. Now, per Deadline&#8216;s reporting, one of Jordan&#8217;s spin-off-of-a-spin-off plans (lest we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9510,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions\/9510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}