Marvel’s Shang-Chi Filming Wraps
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has completed filming…
The excitement is palpable; on set and beyond.
And Deadline was on the story as Simu Liu (Shang-Chi) and his director Destin Daniel Cretton told the world production is complete.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will hit screens (of some sort) in 2021.
Shang-Chi: Production Complete
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We made a baby!!! We can’t wait to introduce him to the world in 9 months… 😍😍😍 #WRAPPED
Dino-Day Ramos posted on Deadline.com:
“We made a baby!!!” declared Liu on Instagram with a pic of him adorned in leis [see above]. “We can’t wait to introduce him to the world in 9 months…”
Cretton also posted a picture of himself, his wife Nikki Chapman, his sister Joy Cretton and actor Zhang Meng announcing that they have wrapped.
In the private Facebook group ‘Subtle Asian Traits”‘ Liu explained the impact of the first Asian-fronted superhero movie at Marvel Studios.
“For all of those who hated us because of the color of our skin, or been made to feel less than because of it; NO MORE,” Liu wrote. “This is OUR movie, and it will be IMPOSSIBLE for Hollywood to ignore us after this.”
Shang-Chi Looks To Subvert Stereotypes
Meanwhile, on his Instagram account [above], Director Cretton added, “WE. ARE. WRAPPED!”
Deadline added:
Shang-Chi is certainly a milestone in Hollywood as it will introduce the world to the comic book character created by Marvel in the ’70s as an answer to the TV program Kung Fu. In the comics, Shang-Chi is the son of a China-based globalist who raised and educated his progeny in his reclusive China compound, closed off to the outside world. The son is trained in the martial arts and develops unsurpassed skills. He is eventually introduced to the outside world to do his father’s bidding and then has to come to grips with the fact his revered father might not be the humanitarian he has claimed to be. Back then, the character was steeped in Asian “Fu Manchu” stereotypes which would not fly today. Details about the plot of the big screen adaptation have been kept under wraps. With an Asian team in front of and behind the camera, Shang Chi will hopefully subvert those stereotypes associated with the original IP.
A Tough Road To The Wrap Party
The movie began production as the COVID-19 began spreading in the United States, stopped work in March, and then started back up in July.
At the time, the MickeyBlog.com posted:
Marvel’s “Shang-Chi” Joins a Long List of Movies to Halt Production
Then, on MarvelBlog.com we posted:
Production to Resume on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
However, it seems — now — that we’ll see Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (somewhere) in 2021.