Shang-Chi is coming to the McU. The franchise’s first Asian superhero will make his debut in his own movie in 2021, with Simu Lui starring as the greatest martial artist in the Marvel universe. And it seems that the studio has big plans for him beyond Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. According to our intel, the hero is being thought of as the McU’s answer to James Bond.
We Got This Covered has been informed by our source – the same one who revealed the real Mandarin will return in the film, before it was confirmed at Comic-Con – that Marvel intends to take a page out of 007’s book for Shang-Chi. They apparently have plans to make him a secret agent, traveling across the world, defeating terrorist cells like the Ten Rings. The aforementioned group first appeared in 2008’s Iron Man, of course, with Shang-Chi no doubt...
We Got This Covered has been informed by our source – the same one who revealed the real Mandarin will return in the film, before it was confirmed at Comic-Con – that Marvel intends to take a page out of 007’s book for Shang-Chi. They apparently have plans to make him a secret agent, traveling across the world, defeating terrorist cells like the Ten Rings. The aforementioned group first appeared in 2008’s Iron Man, of course, with Shang-Chi no doubt...
- 8/13/2019
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
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