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Marvel Studio's Developing "Shang-Chi" film
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It's my understanding that Shang Chi isn't exactly the most well known comic book character. I imagone most people who've ever even heard of the character Shang Chi have got to be pretty big comic book fans, so...yeah, probably.
If they're making a martial arts superhero movie, I hope they prioritize choreography and clarity. My dream picks would be Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix) or Iko Uwais on fight choreography and Matt Flannery (Raid movies, Merantau) on cinematography.
Up-and-coming/promising director choice would be Roseanne Liang; she's the Chinese-New Zealand director behind the short Do No Harm. The short was already quite promising and is getting expanded into a full film by her, being produced by David Leitch. Established director choice would be Kim Jee-woon; between A Bittersweet Life, The Good Bad Weird, I Saw The Devil, and Illang, I'd argue he's one of the best modern action directors
Up-and-coming/promising director choice would be Roseanne Liang; she's the Chinese-New Zealand director behind the short Do No Harm. The short was already quite promising and is getting expanded into a full film by her, being produced by David Leitch. Established director choice would be Kim Jee-woon; between A Bittersweet Life, The Good Bad Weird, I Saw The Devil, and Illang, I'd argue he's one of the best modern action directors
This is awesome and yes Steven Yeun would be an awesome choice. Thank you Feige for caring about diversity.
Fingers crossed they get an actual Chinese-American actor as opposed to "meh, looks Asian, good enough!".
So hyped. Hoping to get that same feeling my Africian-American fam got with Black Panther.
I love Steven Yeun and all, but this exactly the "looks Asian, good enough" thing I was talking about. :/
So hyped. Hoping to get that same feeling my Africian-American fam got with Black Panther.
I love Steven Yeun and all, but this exactly the "looks Asian, good enough" thing I was talking about. :/
Nice. I wonder if or when they'll formally announce Phase 4, like they did in the past for Phase 3.
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Last we heard from Feige, "Phase 4" may not exist as a concept. The idea of the MCU moving in set "phases" culminating in a big crossover thing is apparently going away. We'll still get movies like Avengers but they won't be a central focus I guess? And sequels will happen whenever without a guarantee of there being one every "phase" for certain heroes.
Real talk I don't know how you mess up Iron Fist THAT badly and still get work in Hollywood
I'm happy that they're diversifying their line-up but I can't say that I've ever liked Shang-Chi that much. Maybe it's because I first discovered him in a really shitty X-Men crossover. But hey, if they pick a good actor and director, why not.
This is kinda weird given that Marvel Studios has shown no previous interest in street-level characters, but it could work in the right hands.
TBH, I kinda expect this to play up the mystical elements with not-Fu Manchu and to be something of an ersatz Iron Fist movie, which I'd be okay with after the Netflix series so badly missed the point of the character.
TBH, I kinda expect this to play up the mystical elements with not-Fu Manchu and to be something of an ersatz Iron Fist movie, which I'd be okay with after the Netflix series so badly missed the point of the character.
No but seriously how are they going to make the whole Fu Manchu thing not super racist other than completely changing his backstory. Or casting Tilda Swinton as Fu Manchu.
"Oh an asian dude that does martial arts would be stereotypical" was used so much against the idea of an asian Iron Fist, but I doubt any of those replies will actually show up here.
That said, Shang Chi lacks most of the defining features that make the coolest Marvel characters to me: no colorful codename, costume or super visual powers(as far as I know).
It was my issue with Amadeus Cho before he got Hulk powers; he was one of the top smartest people on the planet but all the other top smartest people on the planet also had badass code-names and colorful costumes/powers.
But it's an MCU adaption so there is plenty that will change from what I know of the comic character to the actual movie version. And seriously, Steven Yeun needs to be in more movies and tv shows. I swear he would be a huge star if Hollywood didn't hate asian dudes.
Same can be said about Johansson and Olsen. Neither of them are European. I like Yeun a lot. I can't think of any Chinese Americans who'd draw as well as Yeun.
Fortunately Marvel could go with a newbie and it would still make bank with the Marvel name :)
Could be a nice gig for Timo Tjahjanto, who did a pretty stellar job with The Night Comes for Us.
Saw this short on Short of the Week the other day and thought it was amazing. This is a great choice!
Is it really that hard to have a supervillain who happens to be Asian without evoking the Yellow Peril archetype? Marvel Studios doesn't even have the rights to Fu Manchu anyway, and it's not like they need to be particularly beholden to the source material.
