Shang-Chi
 

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Marvel Studios is adapting their 1970s circa martial arts hero Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu in a new film written by Dave Callaham and to be helmed by Destin Darrell Cretton.

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Today at San Diego Comic Con, it was announced that newcomer Canadian-Chinese actor Simu Liu (above) will play Shang-Chi. Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai will be making his Hollywood debut as The Mandarin, who is expected to be Shang-Chi's dad rather than Fu Manchu in the comics. Awkwafina has also been cast in the film.

Release date set for Feb. 6, 2021.

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Here's an idea of what to expect in the fight sequences for Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The two guys who Simu Liu are fighting are Zac Wang and Vi-Dan Tran, members of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team. Zac should look familiar. He played Cheng, the main bully in the Karate Kid remake with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.

Looking forward to it! Simu Liu is very good on the also very good Canadian sitcom Kim's Convenience, which you can watch on Netflix.

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Based on the title, I'd assume the OP has played collectible card games at some point in his life :D

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While that sounds awesome...it will be interesting and makes me wonder...are these ten rings the new "Macguffin" like the Infinity Stones in the first MCU saga.

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Surprise trailer!

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China should be happy

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I don't think he would have lasted more than 5 minutes in front of Yip Man lol :p
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Not a fan of this genre.... just remembered about this movie :)

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the movie looks alright i will give it a go to see it cause i follow storyline of the marvel movies especially when im huge marvel fan of the comics and movies and tv series

Appearntly they're not!
This movie trailer is reported to have recieved negative criticism in China. They don't like the fact that a chinese movie is being made by the westerners.

Kevin Feige is always looking for new ideas! That's why MCU is known to be "House of Ideas".
I believe movies like Shang-Chi is really needed so fans could see different aspects of marvel universe.

that would be true cause i was hoping for him to make more seasons for marvel tv series aswell

Let's be honest, this could be the worst movie in the history of film and we'd still pay to see it. Looks alright though, hopefully it'll be good.

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This guy grew up two cities away from me.

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Looks like another stoic Marvel lead though, I hope he gets to show some personality as Simu seems like a cool guy

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The red carpet event was held last night and early reviews are saying this is one of the best Marvel films yet. They praised the story and the fight sequences, coordinated by the recently passed Bradley James Allen and choreographers Guiilermo Grispo and Jackie Chan Stunt Team alumnus Andy Cheng and current member Vi-Dan Tran.

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It does look rather good, and I love Awkwafina, so can't wait. :)

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The Master of Kung Fu was a comic I never read - although I was a bit familiar with Shang Chi from his appearances in other Marvel Comics.

Despite occasionally associating with super-heroes, I got the impression his comic was a little more reality based as it was inspired by the karate movie craze of the early 70's.

Shang Chi was directly based on Bruce Lee, but his story is a Luke Skywalker-type saga as his journey is to confront & undo the evil of his father, Fu Manchu.

Rumor has it that Fu Manchu (who dates back to pulp fiction) was dropped as Shang Chi's father due to political correctness (as the character has now been deemed racist) and various owner & copyright issues.

Since Fu Manchu was not an original Marvel Comics character, I don't really have a problem with him being replaced by the Mandarin (an Iron Man enemy who first appeared in Tales of Suspense #50 in 1964).

However, I do dislike the idea that the rings are now bracelets! There were originally ten of them for each of the Mandarin's fingers - so they were always rings, not bracelets.

P.S. the trailer shows us a glimpse of some sort of dragon... Fin Fang Foom? (an extraterrestrial dragon monster that terrorized China from Marvel's "monster" age: pre-Silver Age super-heroes.)

If this movie had been made a couple decades ago, then Robin Shou would have been perfect as Shang Chi.

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For those who have seen the trailers, there is a character known as the Death Dealer. He's the masked ninja with the ponytail seen during Shang-Chi's training. The actor who plays the Death Dealer is Andy Le, who has gained a following on YouTube with his team Martial Club. Le also performed all of his own stunts in the film. Here's his action reel

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Not that I care about this movie at all (I'm really not into martial arts flicks), but I'm very relieved that Fu Manchu is out.

Not because of the racism (although Fu Manchu is a hilariously racist character in Sax Rohmer's hilariously racist universe), but because Fu Manchu is its own thing, its own world, with its own charm (which ridiculously dated orientalist colonial racism is an element of). We already had Marvel going all Disney before Disney, appropriating themselves outside characters (Thor, Hercules, etc), distorting them and incorporating them in their own universe. So, seeing a Marvel Fu Manchu would feel, to me, like suddenly having Sherlock Holmes as a Marvel character with a green cape and a magnifying eye. Or having the Frankenstein monster popularized as, well, Frankenstein.

Thing is, I'm quite fond of Fu Manchu, as a western fantasy about the (oh so mysterious and sneakily threatening) Far East. And if its unacceptable racism is what protected it from being marvelized or disneyed, I see it as a strange stroke of luck.

That being said, I really liked the Mandarin twist in that Iron Man movie, and I'd be sorry of they walked back on that. Not that it'd matter immensely.

I saw this. It was okay.

I appreciated the handful of small ways it felt different from other MCU films, but those were, well, small. Obviously some of the fight choreography was very cool and very fun. It was nice to not have to roll my eyes into the back of my head when people started kicking, punching, and grappling like I sometimes do in other action films because I have no reason to expect it's going to look any better or different than all the other examples of it I've seen. But a lot of it still did. Obviously the bus and scaffolding fights were a bit more inventive.

Without giving too much away, some of the creature design stuff was quite cool. Some of it felt out of place, too, and the characters felt really, really thin, but there's some genuinely spectacular visuals in there and, again, at least it felt different. I say this a lot, but you can kinda see the better film hiding inside this one.

Gave it the same rating, Yoda.

It did some things differently and the whole look in terms of locations, costume and production design etc made it stand out a bit. But it was still too by the numbers superhero movie for me.

Surprisingly, considering the ratings going around, I liked Eternals more than I liked Shang-Chi…

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I'm a little concerned about the quality of the MCU. It hasn't fallen off a cliff or anything, but everything is just 20% worse. I'm thinking more of the shows on Disney+, to be fair, even though one might reasonably expect a drop off there, but they're also putting a lot of time and money into them, so maybe not.

It's hard to put my finger on, but it's definitely a trend. Like obvious laugh lines that aren't as funny. Lines obviously meant to be quoted that aren't as quotable. They have the cadence of the better MCU films but the execution is off. It's like they've got the B team working on all the latest stuff, which I guess maybe they do in many cases. There's so many of these, and only so many really talented people to work on them, let alone finding the right talent married to the right material (James Gunn's great for Guardians of the Galaxy but he wouldn't be right for Captain America).

Might just be a blip. But it also might be that there's enough of this stuff out there that we increasingly have to distinguish between the big event films that get the AAA treatment and attention that almost all MCU films were getting in the earlygoing, and the ones that are a bit more rote.

It’s called superhero exhaustion. Welcome to the club. I was tired of being the only tired one 😜

I'm guessing by that line you've not yet seen The Eternals. That one was rough.


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I mostly enjoyed Sheng-Chi. It may have been the differences that kept my interest, I'm not sure. The comic relief surprise helped and seemed fitting enough. Action was better than I expected while other bits felt kind of generic. It was around the same surprised enjoyment I had with Real Steel and Ant Man.

Yeah, not yet. I've heard it's not great. But also, even if it's not great, it seems like it's at least different enough that it might not be part of the "same but just worse across the board" thing. I'm down for interesting failures now and then. It's the decline into mediocrity that you worry about.

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Saw this recently. Really felt like a "MCU does an Yi-Mou Zhang Movie" to me. Some of the scenes with Maggie Cheung were lifted almost wholesale from films like Hero. For the most part, didn't really feel like a Marvel movie, which doesn't really bother me, because I think we could all use a break from run-of-the-mill MCU art this point.

Concerning Awkwafina: As with anything else I have seen her in, she is both annoying and somehow one of the best parts of the movie. It's this weird thing where, while she is in a scene, I am thinking "dang, this chick is annoying," but when she is absent from the proceedings, I am think "bring back the funny chick!"

Overall, I liked this, but like some others in the thread, I think the quality of the MCU in general has taken a hit.

As they say, familiarity breeds contempt, while absence makes the heart grow fonder.