Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, with a script co-written by Cretton, David Callaham, and Andrew Lanham, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the 25th entry. Shang-Chi may not be a household name like some other Marvel players, but the same could’ve been said for the Guardians of the Galaxy, and we all know how that turned out (well – it turned out well). In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Simu Liu stars as “Shang-Chi, who must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.”
Liu says, “We know so many different versions of Batman’s origin story, how his parents were murdered when he was very young. We know Peter Parker, who was bitten by a radioactive spider, and he loses his uncle. 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 core of Shang-Chi’s arc in the comics is really a family drama,” added producer Jonathan Schwartz. “That was something that [director Destin Daniel Cretton] keyed into really early on in our conversations, the idea of taking this broken family and this really dark, even abusive family background and seeing what that does to a child over time.” Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings opens in theaters on September 3, 2021. There’s no word yet if this will join Black Widow as a film that’s also going to Disney+ with premier access, so stay tuned for that.
