Watch: Ryan Coogler Breaks Down The Single Take Boxing Match In 'Creed'

There's a lot of talk around "Creed" at moment, from how the film has revitalized the "Rocky" franchise to whispers of an Oscar campaign for Sylvester Stallone's performance. That aside, the film isn't just a crowd-pleasing success, but also a great piece of showmanship from director Ryan Coogler, who, in his first major studio effort, drops in a single take fight sequence that had many talking about it afterward. In a new "Anatomy Of A Scene" featurette for The New York Times, he details the work that went into putting that scene together. 

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"...we decided three weeks out from production and it was a team effort," the director reveals about when they settled on the ambitious approach to the fight. "I worked with a great stunt coordinator named Clayton Barber and a great cinematographer, Maryse Alberti, and a great Steadicam operator, Ben...