Following his sole outing as Johnny Storm, a.k.a. The Human Torch, in 2015’s Fantastic Four, Michael B. Jordan got a second bite at the proverbial superhero movie apple when he played Erik “Killmonger” Stevens in 2018’s Black Panther. This marked his third collaboration with director Ryan Coogler, with the two of them having previously worked on Fruitvale Station and Creed together, and let’s not forget he also later made a surprise appearance in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. So naturally Coogler knows Jordan pretty well, so when he compared the actor’s career to that of athletes Tom Brady and LeBron James, you can be sure he knows what he’s talking about.
With Michael B. Jordan being listed as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2023, Ryan Coogler wrote the entry dedicated to him. Before going into how the actor made his directorial debut with the 2023 new movie release Creed III, and how his frequent collaborator’s “best work is still to come,” the filmmaker had this to say:
