Liu expressed excitement THAT on the introduction of the hero Shang-Chi on a global scale: “The most exciting thing about entering this character was that his backstory has never been told before.”
“We know Peter Parker, who was bitten by a radioactive spider, and he loses his uncle,” Liu continued. “Shang-Chi’s story is virtually unknown to most of the world, so we had a lot of freedom and creative freedom to make it the way we wanted.”
As seen in the teaser trailer above, Shang-Chi thought he’d put his past behind him but found himself pulled into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization, as his father Wenwu tells him, “Son It’s time for you to take your place by my side. “
Echoing what Liu said, Cretton commented on the origins of the comics, emphasizing the family connection: “There are many iterations of Shang-Chi in the comics, but there was always a core relationship between him and his father that was extremely complicated – and that was something I was really dealing with. “
“That was a big part of what I threw,” Cretton explained THATUsing the film to explore the psychology of a child who was trained to be a murderer when he was young. Now that he’s escaped from it, how does he learn to redefine himself in the world and find the balance of what his relationship should be with his father? “