As one of many Marvel Cinematic Universe’s latest heroes, the accountability to save lots of the world (presumably) will fall to Shang-Chi in director Destin Daniel Cretton’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. But not like a lot of Marvel’s different upcoming tasks which have previously-established roots within the MCU, Shang Chi is ready to introduce a slew of latest characters whose lives haven’t precisely revolved across the Avengers.

While Shang-Chi’s title offers you a fairly large clue concerning the chunk of Marvel’s comedian lore that the movie explores, a number of the main questions concerning the story have revolved round what precisely this incarnation of the Ten Rings are/is, contemplating {that a} terrorist group by the identical title was beforehand dropped manner again in Iron Man 3. It at all times appeared a stretch that Ben Kingsley’s Mandarin would find yourself factoring into Shang-Chi in any important manner, and in a brand new featurette for the upcoming movie, the solid explains a bit extra about how Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) finally ends up turning into a pivotal determine inside the MCU in his personal proper.

In the featurette, Kevin Feige explains how the Ten Rings featured in Iron Man 3 have a direct connection to the group on the heart of Shang-Chi. Tony Stark could also be useless and gone, however Shang-Chi additional explores how the Avenger was as soon as compelled to develop weapons for the Ten Rings, and the way Shang-Chi has to cope with the results. The video additionally spotlights just a few photographs that tease Shang-Chi’s fantastical/magical parts, nevertheless it stops simply wanting explaining whether or not the weaponized rings that Shang-Chi and his father Wenwu (Tony Leung) struggle with are superior (Stark) tech, or if their energy is mystical in nature.

Even although Phase 4 is supposed to be about ushering within the new guard of heroes, it’s good to see that Shang-Chi’s being given a narrative that may set up him as a correct presence on the planet who’s as much as the problem of placing issues proper when individuals—together with the Avengers—drop the ball. But with that every one squared away, now the attention-grabbing factor to look ahead to seeing is simply how tightly crafted and spectacular a standalone story Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is when it hits theaters on September 3.

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