Disney has released the first trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and it’s a doozy.
In it, we finally meet Shang-Chi, played by Simu Liu. He’s Marvel’s Master of Kung-Fu, an Asian superhero who is a trained assassin and who is trying to live a normal life in San Francisco before he is pulled into the deadly world of the Ten Rings, an international crime organization.
If the name sounds familiar, we first heard it all the way back in the first Iron Man film in 2008.
Watching it cold, it would be hard to even clock it as a Marvel film, but then again, that’s what Marvel secretly does best, working within the confines of different genres and putting their signature stamp on them, from the spy thrillers of the Captain America series to the rag-tag group action comedies of the Guardians of the Galaxy series.
With Shang-Chi, director Destin Daniel Cretton, who also helmed last year’s Michael B Jordan courtroom drama Just Mercy, seems to have crafted a brilliant spectacle of martial arts, following the traditions of Hong Kong action classics all the way to the Wuxia Chinese tradition from martial arts films such as Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
It looks as well to be the most visually dazzling film that Marvel has released since Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange five years ago.
The film also stars Awkwafina, who also popped up in fellow Disney epic Raya and the Last Dragon earlier this year, as well as Michelle Yeoh and Ronny Chieng.
It should release in the UAE on September 2, 2021.
Marvel also released a first look at the poster. Take a look here:
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