- Marvel has released the first trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
- The film starring Simu Liu is the studio's first film centring on an Asian superhero.
- Other cast members include Tony Leung, Awkwafina, Michelle Yeoh, Ronny Chieng, Fala Chen, Meng'er Zhang and Florian Munteanu.
- "Shang Chi is more than just a movie - it is a celebration of our culture and a rallying cry for the forgotten, the unseen, and the overlooked," wrote Simu.
To celebrate the birthday of Shang-Chi star, Simu Liu, Marvel released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming superhero film.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is Marvel's first film centring on an Asian superhero.
Simu shared the first look teaser poster on his social media accounts on Monday. Alongside it, he wrote: "I never saw myself as the hero of my own story growing up. I struggled to find any Asian characters onscreen, and there were fewer still that made me feel truly proud of my heritage. It's absolutely insane to think that in just over four months, we will have a @MarvelStudios movie featuring an almost entirely Asian cast, each full of rich nuance and dimensionality."
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Shortly after Simu's post, Marvel released a two-minute clip introducing fans to Shang-Chi. Shangi-Chi appears to be a regular Joe working as a valet and hanging out with his friends at night.
But we soon learn that there is more to him than meets the eye. As a child, he was trained by his father Wenwu (Tony Leung) to become a skilled assassin but broke ties and left that world behind. He is drawn into the clandestine Ten Rings Organisation and has to confront his past.
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In an interview with Entertainment Weekly director, Destin Daniel Cretton said that the core of Shang-Chi is the relationship between him and his father.
"That was a big part of what I pitched: using the movie to explore the psychology of a kid who was trained to be a killer when he was young. Now that he has broken out of that, how does he learn to redefine himself in the world and find the balance of what his relationship with his father should be?"
For Simu, the most exciting thing about becoming this character was getting to tell his backstory.
"Shang-Chi's story is very much unknown to most of the world, so we had a lot of freedom and creative liberty to make it the way that we wanted to," the 32-year-old told the publication.