, the 25th installment in the MCU, but the first to have an Asian superhero as its lead. «It's not just one superhero that is Asian.
It's an almost entirely Asian cast,» says Marvel executive producer Victoria Alonso. "[] is our love letter, in a way, to that superhero, but also to the community.«As played by Simu Liu, this take on Shang-Chi is not simply a Master of Martial Arts but a bona fide superhero in his own right.
That's not the only update made to the source material, also re-envisioning a more progressive take on his father, Wenwu, the shadowy villain also known as The Mandarin (played by Tony Leung). (Meng'er Zhang, who co-stars as Shang-Chi's sister calls Wenwu „the most complex villain in the whole Marvel universe.“)On the red.
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