Simu Liu witnesses the power of The Ten Rings in the new Shang-Chi trailer
Marvel Studios has released a new trailer for Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings
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The first trailer for Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings was a lot of fun, maybe even surprisingly fun, considering it’s been a while since we had a new Marvel movie about a new character. It had Simu Liu doing cool action stuff in a bus, it had Awkwafina making funny comments, and there was a mysterious evil villain in a mask, all of which were fun (and much more fun than, say, Netflix’s Iron Fist ever was). Now, Marvel has released a new Shang-Chi trailer that features scaffolding fights, mythical beasts, not enough of Ronny Chieng’s sick MCU hairdo, and Liu’s character coming to terms with his family legacy. It’s the sort of “you can’t run from your past” scenario that is both verbalized by Tony Leung in the role of Wenwu/the Mandarin, and footage of Liu attempting to run, flip, and swim his way away from Shang-Chi’s connection to the Ten Rings organization.
The new trailer also affords a better look at Michelle Yeoh as Jian Nan, manipulating the elements to whip some CGI foliage around and offer the supportive counterpoint to Leung’s villainous voiceover, expressing sentiments that will probably go down smoothly with the turbo-charged summer blockbuster coming to theaters this weekend: “You are a product of all who came before you. The legacy of your family. You are your mother. And whether you like it or not, you are also your father.” (In case it isn’t clear from all of the flashbacks and the evidently complicated feelings they have for one another, Jian Nan is that mother and Wenwu is that father.)
The movie, which was directed by Destin Cretton, will be in theaters—and only in theaters!—on September 3. You won’t be able to watch it on Disney+, no matter how much extra money you pay on top of your existing subscription fee.
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I’m just excited for the introduction of everyone’s favorite ancient space dragon who wears purple pants: Fin Fang Foom!I would prefer if they keep the pants in the movie and just never call attention to them. No snarky remarks. Everybody just immediately accepts that the space dragon somehow found or acquired a pair of purple pants.
This is a different dragon generically named The Great Protector.
They could have at least kept the purple pants…
I understand your disappointment but Fin Fang Foom is a bunch of nonsense words strung together to sound Asian-y. It’s not Long Duk Dong, but its offensive in its own way.
If this movie’s screenwriters were smart, they could do a respectfully accurate portrayal of Chinese dragon myths and have their Fin Fang Foom too.
The Supreme Intelligence wasn’t a grotesque tentacle-haired blob in Captain Marvel either.
They need to save something for the sequel.
Carol only interacted with The Supreme Intelligence in a virtual space and they were in the form of Mar-Vell. It’s entirely possible they’re actually a grotesque tentacle-haired blob.
That’s what I’m saying. They saved the blob reveal for Captain Marvel 2 and they’ll save Fin Fang Foom for Shang-Chi 2.
I think The Great Protector is supposed to be Fin Fang Foom and they just changed the name because his original name is really racist. Kind of like how in Black Panther they didn’t call M’baku “Man-Ape”. They could have kept the purple pants and give him a better name than “Great Protector”.
Maybe, but this dragon is also white as opposed to FFF’s green. FFF is also, traditionally, a baddie.
My fan-hope is that he’s another member of the race of dragons and shows up to cause trouble in the next film. We’ll have to wait and see.
Possibly, and there is always a chance Marvel has figured out how to do that. But they have already changed a lot of lore from the comics in this movie — as they often do in all their films — and I don’t think retaining the name of a relatively obscure character would be a huge priority.
Oh I totally get that the character’s name is racist as shit.
‘m Asian, tell me how it’s offensive .
I prefer when it’s addressed.
Yeah but I have a lot of issues with Warren Ellis considering he exploited and groomed women under the guise of mentorship.
I dislike Warren Ellis due to the lazy way he killed Synch in Generation X. Apparently a well adjusted and regular black character is boring, so he couldn’t be bothered to write for him.
Also we had to wait months for a flashback story to explain how Everett died, which didn’t make any sense considering his mutant power.Anyhoo Synch is back now and Ellis being a douche is the cherry on top.
Yeahhhh, NextWave now slots into the same space as Woody Allen movies for me. I know the creator’s a creep and a weirdo, but the work hit me at just the right time and I can’t excise the influence it had on me and my tastes.
I’m not sure spending time with adult women you want to bone is grooming. Like, the ladies not wanting to bone you doesn’t make you a predator. Let’s save terms that specifically apply to sexual abuse of minors for, like, the sexual abuse of minors?
Everyone wants to focus on Young Avengers being set up on Disney+, but WandaVision gave us Photon so now we only need 4 more for Nextwave
Fin Fang Farm-to-Table
Wait that was FFF in the trailer?!!!Disney+ NEXTWAVE CONFIRMED!
So if you watched the Netflix Daredevil et al, I was guessing/hoping that the big mystery hole they showed in season 2 was going to lead up to the Defenders series with them fighting Fin Fang Foom. I was kind of right, which just makes me think I’m clearly the best showrunner not in the business.
Personally I prefer how the Abomination looks in the comics nowadays…
Horrifying! But now I kind of want to see it.
So ‘The Thing’?
The Abomination looks like the Thing, while the Thing looks like a moving brick wall.
Admittedly I haven’t read a lot of Hulk (the character just never interested me that much) but I’m REALLY digging how much body horror is in the Ewing run.
Oh hell yes. I wonder if the MCU could ever go as dark and deep into body horror as Al Ewing’s run.
Was he cage-fighting The Abomination?
He wasn’t, but based on that shield they whipped up, a Kamir Tarj monk is.
I thought it was Shang-Chi who was fighting Abomination but on second viewing it’s freaking Wong!
Oh damn, I think you may be right!! Can’t really see the face, but he makes the shield and it looks like his build and hair. Oh man, I hope so. I definitely want to see Wong vs Evil Tim Roth.
I suspect they have taken the way Abomination looks in the comic (which is quite a bit different than the film) and applied it to a new, never-seen-again character.
No Tim Roth is reprising his role as the Abomination in Shang-Chi. He’ll also be in She-Hulk.There’s actually precedent for Gamma Mutates to have their gamma forms alter over time in the comics. Hell, the Hulk in the comics manifests different forms due to Banner’s Dissociative Identity Disorder, with each Hulk being a separate personality.
That’s awesome! I didn’t know it was confirmed. I suspect that some form of Thunderbolts is forthcoming, either in She-Hulk or possibly Secret Invasion. Now I want Tim Blake Nelson back, too. Loose ends bug me.
Every good team needs a leader *wink wink*.
Gamma Mutates deserve their due in the MCU! Gamma Mutates deserve their due in the MCU!I really just think Immortal Hulk deserves to be a series or adapted in some form or another. It’s too interesting not to be. Well-adjusted nerd Hulk sucks.
That was actually a thing during Peter David’s run around the early 90’s. Basically Doc Samson thought he’d successfully merged Banner’s mind with the Savage and Grey Hulk to create a single gestalt personality. Turns out he’d only manifested another Hulk personality known as “The Professor”He had some cool adventures. Like Future Imperfect, where a Rick Jones from the future recruited Professor Hulk to take on The Maestro, an evil future version of the Hulk who had become a post-apocalyptic despot with an army of robot dogs.
They also mutate depending on how CGI improves.
pic for reference ( and yeah thats clearly abo and wong )
So, turning the rings into giant wrist bands… that was a decision.
It’s not much better, but I think they could have stuck closer to the comics with this part
I think that would drive everyone who does martial arts up the wall, TBH.
Correct. I’m trying to imagine what it would feel like to throw a punch or rapidly open and close my hands for a grab while wearing 5 rings on each finger and it seems unpleasant and untenable, respectively.
uggg I’m sorry I can’t ungrey you, pending person – but occasionally people have forgotten to take their rings off when I go to class and believe me, they remember the second the bag comes out. You’d hurt a person, but that shit also gets driven right back into your flesh. (And having rings next to each other, you wouldn’t even be able to close your fist properly, yeah.)
I mean, they at least look more like something that was used as a hyper-advanced alien spaceship’s engine now. Before it was pretty much… oh those are clearly rings designed to fit a human’s fingers. They also are making the rings do more than just glow when the Mandarin does something. They seem to be actively moving around and changing form to do different attacks instead of just glowing like magic rings (that aren’t supposed to be magic).
I mean, they at least look more like something that was used as a hyper-advanced alien spaceship’s engine now.Or they’re rings designed to fit a dragon’s fingers.
I guess we’ll see if it’s intentional, but the new design also evokes the magic design in Dr. Strange (the ‘time rings’ around his arm when he was looping).
Wristband is generous. They’re f’n bracelets.
Yeah, how could you possibly have our pure action hero male fantasy sullied by women’s jewelry.
Lighten up, Francis. The “Something About Mary” thread about who owns which genre is *that* way.
It’s a call back to the iron rings historically used as training tools and weapons in Kung Fu. Additionally, it looks more dramatic.
Perfect opportunity for a Kung Fu Hustle namedrop!
I don’t know the character, and am not a martial arts nerd, but this is exactly what I expected given the title.
The idea of finger rings never occurred to me.
Additionally, it looks more dramatic cool.
needs cockrings!
They also just did a whole twenty-plus movie thing driven by someone putting gems on their hand, so probably wanted to branch out a bit.
Hey. Now more men wear wrist bands than eat stew.
I hope they’re saving a reveal for the movie that the rings manifest different powers, because ‘generic blue energy blasts’ would be extremely unimaginative.
Not a lot of healthy father-son relationships in the MCU, huh?
Super hero stories are modern mythology and those old mythical figures never had good home lives.
I’m absolutely convinced they decided “daddy issues” was the best shortcut to character vulnerability.
It’s also a vulnerability that’s very easy to ignore for long stretches of plot which also makes writing easier. Plus an easy way to get ‘emotional stakes’ for the final showdown.
Whether or not they intended it, fatherhood (the dangers of bad ones, the challenge of being a good one, and the struggle to do better than they were able to do) is the overarching theme of the MCU from Iron Man to Endgame.
Given the historic relationship between manhood and the assumption of personal responsibility (c.f. the bar mitzvah as the time when one becomes responsible to God instead of his parents being responsible for his adherence to the commandments), there’s probably a deep well of topics for gender-studies theses about depictions of masculinity in the MCU.
Tony & Howard, Tony & Peter, Tony & his actual daughter, Odin & Thor/Loki/Hela, Peter & Ego, Peter & Yondu, Thanos & Gamora/Nebula, Scott & Cassie, Hank & Hope, Clint & his family, Tchalla & Killmonger and their respective fathers… MCU loves it’s dad issues.
truly trying to think if there’s even one!
Every time I’m ready to stop watching Marvel, they tap *straight* into my interests. Goddamn.
They’ll never let us quit.
Kinda wonder if this Mandarin is gonna tie back to the fake Ben Kingsley version from Iron Man 3
There was a short called “All Hail The King” from 7 years ago that kind of bridges that gap.
Hopefully Kingsley will be a surprise cameo, or that short wil at least be referenced in some way.
I really hope so too.
With the whole classic whipping up leaves bit from, well, a bunch of martial arts movies (Hero, Tai Chi Master from my recall), I hope the scaffold fight includes a bit from the Once Upon in China series. Or the ladder fight in the first one. They made a good fight in a Xena episode form that.
This is a much better Avatar the Last Airbender movie!
Much, much better than the teaser. So much more hyped for this now! Wasn’t expecting to see Abomination and Wong.
I don’t agree with how some people were criticizing Simu Liu on minimal footage: I think it’s entirely possible he’ll do great in the role. That being said, this trailer seems to be focusing on and cramming in characters and events around him, which is worryingly similar to what happened in Iron Fist, where the main character was the least-interesting element. Really hope they don’t repeat that here.
Wait! Hold on a minute!!! I thought this guy was The Mandarin?!Are you telling me he’s not? Next you’re going to tell me he’s just a second rate actor that was hired to play a role…
How did I only just find out Tony Leung is in this!!! Related PSA: Tokyo Raiders is streaming on Amazon Prime