Marvel's newest hero is coming face to face with his past.
THE new Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer dropped and focus on the eponymous Ten Rings organization led by Shang-Chi's father, Wenwu aka The Mandarin.
Disney shared the new trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on Thursday, dropping a new look at Simu Liu's warrior during ESPN's NBA Countdown. Liu stars as the titular hero, who trained to become a martial arts master under the watchful eye of his father Wenwu (Tony Leung). He's since rejected his father's villainous ways and tried to forge a new life in San Francisco, making friends like Awkwafina's Katy. Before long, however, he finds himself drawn back into the past he's tried so hard to outrun.
"The most exciting thing about stepping into this character was that his backstory has never been told before," Liu previously told EW. "We know so many different versions of Batman's origin story, how his parents were murdered when he was very young. We know Peter Parker, who was bitten by a radioactive spider, and he loses his uncle. Shang-Chi's story is very much unknown to most of the world, so we had a lot of freedom and creative liberty to make it the way that we wanted to."
The new trailer also teases a first look at the Ten Rings themselves. Marvel fans have heard that name before: The Ten Rings were the notorious terrorist organization that organized Tony Stark's kidnapping all the way back in the first Iron Man. The new Shang-Chi trailer introduces the actual objects behind the name, which grant their wearer unimaginable power.
In addition to Leung, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stars Simu Liu as the title character, who has to reckon with his past in the Ten Rings organization. Also starring in the film are Awkwafina, Michelle Yeoh, Fala Chen, Meng’er Zhang, Florian Munteanu, and Ronny Chieng.
Destin Daniel Cretton, the film’s director and one of the writers, spoke about bringing the new MCU hero's journey to the big screen: "Shang-Chi’s main problem in his life is rooted in not knowing who he really is," said Cretton in a statement. "He has to learn how to own every part of himself. If he doesn’t allow himself to look at all of it—the good, the bad, the light and the dark—and to own it all, he won’t be able to reach his full potential."
Other highlights from the new trailer include, and bear with me, a dragon and also maybe Abomination, who returns after his stint in The Incredible Hulk.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will premiere in theaters on September 3. Unlike the upcoming Black Widow which will be released simultaneously on Disney Plus Premier Access, Shang-Chi will have an exclusive 45-day theatrical. run.
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