Liu expressed excitement towards EW about the launch of the hero Shang-Chi on a global scale, “The most exciting thing about entering this character was that his history has never been told before.”
“We know Peter Parker, who was bitten by a radioactive spider, and he loses his uncle,” Liu continued. “The story of Shang-Chi is very unknown to most of the world, so we had a lot of freedom and creative freedom to do it the way we wanted.”
As seen in the teaser trailer above, Shang-Chi thought he had left his past behind, only to discover that he had been pulled into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization, as his father Wenwu tells him: ‘Son, this it’s time you took your place by my side. ‘
Cretton said what Liu said, noting the origins of the comics, emphasizing the family bond: ‘There are many repetitions of Shang-Chi throughout the comics, but there has always been a core relationship between him and his father. which was extremely complicated – and it was something I was really related to. ‘
“That was a big part of what I saved,” Cretton added. EW. “By using the film to investigate the psychology of a child who was trained to be a killer when he was young. Now that he has broken out of it, how does he learn to redefine himself in the world and find the balance? between what his relationship is “should be with his father?”