Destin Daniel Cretton is making a Shang-Chi sequel and an MCU Disney Plus show
The movie was a huge success at a time when it's rare for any movie to do well, so a sequel is an obvious choice
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Director Destin Daniel Cretton’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings is one of the more inventive entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe canon, partially due to the fact that it has a more fantastical nature than the average superhero-adjacent film (it also had an oddly accurate fight scene on a bus), so it’s hardly surprising that Marvel Studios is moving forward with a sequel. It’s even less surprising when you take into account the film’s box office numbers—it made over $200 million domestic in an era where some movies fail to crack $2 million.
News of a Shang-Chi sequel comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which says Cretton has signed an overall deal with both Marvel Studios and Hulu’s Onyx Collective production label that will allow him to produce various TV and film projects. Cretton will write and direct the Shang-Chi sequel, and this new deal also gives him a “new Marvel Cinematic Universe series for Disney+.”
We don’t know what that’s about, but considering the pattern of other Disney+ Marvel shows, it will probably be about a secondary character from the movies who can carry a story but maybe not a mega-budget tentpole movie (apologies to… every star of every Disney+ Marvel show). Maybe something about Xialing’s new criminal empire, as teased in one of the Shang-Chi stingers? Maybe Awkwafina Is Katy From San Francisco? Trevor Slattery’s Inside The Terrorist Actor’s Studio?
There’s no word on when Shang-Chi 2 (or this Disney+ show) might happen, but Marvel Studios tends to offer filmmakers some time to work when it goes back to ask for a sequel—especially with COVID having already delayed its plans so much. So it might be a bit before we see Shang-Chi 2, but who knows, Shang-Chi himself could pop up at any point for a cameo in some other movie.
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Perhaps Jessica Henwick could become involved in some capacity?
She was apparently up for the Xialing role and passed on it.
How do you know that? I saw in the making of Shang-Chi last night that they specifically sought out an actress from China who speaks Mandarin for the role of Xialing. Which I assume without googling is not the case of Jessica Henwick.
She said she was up for a major role in it and while she could have potentially been up for Katy, the stories about that character were that she was written specifically for Awkafina from the jump. I guess maybe she could have been up for Shang-Chi and Xialing’s young mom.
I enjoyed Shang-Chi but I hope Marvel puts more effort into special effects next time. The climax of the movie just looked like absolute dogshit and it’s turning into a real problem for the MCU that their CGI so often looks cheap and lazy. It’s inexcusable with the amount of money they spend on these things. Better yet, when your hero’s whole deal is that he’s great at kung fu and you’ve hired really talented fight choreographers (a sad rarity for the MCU), don’t have the climax be a typical CGI orgy.
I would say it was inconsistent. The fight on the bus was probably one of the best sequences Marvel has ever done, in any of their movies. In my humble opinion.
The sequence on the bus was great, but the moment the bus jumps over a hill is terrible.
I enjoyed the movie until the final 3rd, where everything went “HR Puffinstuff.” How did we get to Liddsville? What about the errr magic flute?
Yeah, it would be nice if the sequel stayed more in the real world. The movie really falls apart when they go to the fantasy land.
I don’t understand this criticism. Could the CGI have been better during the climax? Sure. Was it in any way what a reasonable human could call horrible? I’m just not seeing the justification for it.Now, if you want to call the design of the soul sucker or whatever it’s called, I’m down for that. Although the Dragon looked pretty sweet IMO.
I think the CGI looked cheap relative to the director’s ambitions. I loved the bus fight, too, which I think benefited from more controlled CGI. You got a great scene showcasing the fight choreography enhanced by CGI. The final fight, however, was really primarily a CGI spectacle, and if that’s the route you’re going to take, the CGI had better be incredible if it’s going to take center stage. It wasn’t groundbreaking CGI, nor was it too interesting to begin with, so maybe they would have been better off dialing it back and putting the fight choreography in the forefront.
That’s Internet Hyperbole for you – everything has to be either the greatest (X) ever or the worst most horrible eye-clawing (X) ever.
Shang-Chi was a good movie that could have been a great movie if it wasn’t such a Marvel movie. Every one of its problems can be traced back to its Marvel-ness – weirdly cheap CGI, awkward cramming into a cinematic universe, sparkly light climax. The confrontation where the main characters just threw sparkly lights at each other in the FMV background of a PS1 JRPG was so freaking bad – and the team was clearly capable of making the climax the movie needed, as could be evidenced by the bus sequence.
the team was clearly capable of making the climax the movie needed, as could be evidenced by the bus sequence.If it’s like what we heard of Black Widow, those were probably different teams. *sad trombone*
Honestly, my hope is that they put in less special effects and more choreography. The best part of this movie was the bus fight at the start, and while yes, it used its share of CGI, the real attraction in that sequence was in seeing how the actors moved and reacted and fought. Whereas the final battle was just some cartoon dragons shooting lasers at each other.My hope is that Shang Chi 2 embraces the kung fu movie approach and emphasizes martial arts over superpowers. Though I doubt this will happen given that Shang Chi has the rings now.
If your hope is that Marvel will stop doing what Marvel always does, I’m sorry to say that they absolutely won’t. They’re like a restaurant that buys different, wonderful ingredients and then boils them for 145 minutes with some salt.
the show Assembled on Disney + has an episode that’s the making of Shang-Chi now. It was really interesting so see how they put together the bus scene.
They do those effects years in advance now because it takes so long and then the studio often just buys the effect and works it into the movie.
100% agree. Let’s put the CGI to bed. It should have been actual fighting by humans, not dumbass CGI dragons. Still liked the movie on balance, but that was a shame.
I assumed because Shang-Chi is Marvel’s take on Hong Kong action and Chinese epic fantasy, that the CGI climax was meant to evoke the look and feel of similar CGI in Chinese fantasy movies.
Yeah, I forgot to mention that. The whole movie seemed to have this built-in gauzy texture, which doesn’t do the CGI any favours, but is at least a specific choice.
I would love to see an MCU movie where they don’t have 20 minutes of non-stop CGI at the end. I find myself tuning out at what should be the climax nowadays.
A legit Trevor Slattery’s Inside the Actors Studio, with Ben Kingsley improvising as the character while interviewing real actors, would be appointment viewing.
Shang Chi was easily one of my favorite MCU movies so I’m looking forward to this.
What movie that actually got a decent release made less than $2 million? You may have out Barsanti’d yourself this time.
I wonder if the Chinese movie market that literally every studio is pandering to had anything to do with this movie being a “huge success”.
It’s still so rare that movies are set in SF that I hope the sequel lets them spend more time there. Maybe the main villain can be one of those bongo drum guys in Golden Gate Park or a line-cutter at Tartine.
“I inherited my crime-lord father’s enormous fortune, so I can afford a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco if I get a roommate.”
Since he’s in SF a team-up with the other SF-based Avenger(s) should be easy enough to arrange.
So…just Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Yes, but there are two of each of those now.
“other SF-based Avenger(s)“ doesn’t need to mean more than Ant-Man and the Wasp, they’re both Avengers that live in San Francisco.
Or some sea lions.
Isn’t Ant-Man set in SF?
Yes, and non-MCU Bruce Banner lived in Berkeley from what I remember. Maybe Jennifer Connelly can come back.
Is it rare? I feel like every movie under the sun is set in SF now, and the city has replaced NYC as the de-facto city to be destroyed in a movie.
If a line cutter in front of you at Tartine gets the last morning bun, they deserve a swift kick to the soul.
For a TV series I want Trevor Slattery leading a group of elderly ex-cons who are all classically trained actors (ac-TORs.) They argue about the craft, boast about past ovations, bring up each other’s embarrassing TV work, and only accomplish anything thanks to the alcoholic monkey from Caged Heat.Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart guest star as actors known for their cinema roles as the villainous Mister Magnesium and his rival Professor Xevious.
I had a similar idea but set up where Carl Lumbly, Michael Douglas, Samuel L Jackson and others had a meal around a table in a dark room and argued about doing spying in their field/time(a-la Dinner For Five(Wonder what happened to the host from that show. Wherever he is I hope he’s Happy.).Then they find out how much dinner was and they are so disgusted they forget to keep focused and they all turn back into Skrulls.
Pym: “Damn, Fury. I TOLD you that Pierce guy was a creep”
Fury: “Shut up, motherfucker. We warned you about that bald Make-A-Wish kid looking fool you hired”
Bradley: “Who the fuck let the limey in here?”
Slattery: “Yes, I am very tough. I have killed people. Honest.”
“Shang-Chi and the Wasp” please.
Let him reboot Iron Fist. Replace Finn Jones and keep Jessica Henwick.
Iron Fist staring Frank Stallone.
Shang-Chi and the Daughters of the Dragon has a nice ring to it, though it will probably just start as something else and end up Shang-Chi: Daughters of the Dragon two weeks in to the low-level confusion of everyone.
Yeah, I really hope they keep the “and the…” nomenclature.
I’m also a big fan of “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness”. The trend of having a colon in film titles is really boring. I absolutely hate it. I really wish Marvel didn’t make colons their hill to die on after the Iron Man trilogy ended.
The only thing worse is films with two colons in the title. I’m looking at you “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Part One”. It’s so damn clunky.
I only ever write it as “Thor Ragnarok”. I refuse to admit I have any idea what “Thor: Ragnarok” is.
On that note I’d also like to add that they really missed an opportunity by not calling it “Thor Four”.
I would love it if they brought back Henwick and Missick for Daughters of the Dragon.
Well I more meant for the TV show that I assume will not feature Shang-Chi directly but I’m good with Colleen in the sequel too.
keep the asian-diverse cast, have fun with the story, don’t make it gruesome or grisly. Keep things relatively light.
Make it a show about Michelle Yeoh’s character.