With only less than a month before the highly-anticipated premiere of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Marvel Studios has released a brand new TV spot and clip for the forthcoming martial arts superhero movie, confirming that advance movie tickets are now on sale starting today. The Simu Liu-led MCU film is currently slated to arrive in theaters on Friday, September 3.
The new Shang-Chi TV spot continues to the hype up the introduction of a new Marvel Legend as the Master of Kung-Fu faces his destiny of bearing the mystical ten rings from his father. As for the clip (via Fandango), it provides us a glimpse of one of Liu’s kickass fighting sequences as he fights off the Mandarin’s skilled goons while trying his best not fall off a building’s scaffolding.
#ShangChi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is Marvel’s first Asian superhero film & the first Marvel movie that you can ONLY see in theaters since #SpiderMan Far From Home. Sept 3.
Tickets are on sale NOW: https://t.co/ORRyDW0NBa@SimuLiu + @Awkwafina star in this exclusive clip. pic.twitter.com/WwURyb7D1E— Fandango (@Fandango) August 16, 2021
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will be led Canadian actor Simu Liu (Kim’s Convenience), who is set to take on the mantle of the titular hero in Marvel Studios’ first Asian superhero-led movie. Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
The film will also introduces MCU newcomers are Awkwafina as Katy, Tony Leung as Wenwu/ The Mandarin, Meng’er Zhang as Xialing, Fala Chen as Jiang Li, Ronny Chieng, and Florian Munteanu as Razor Fist. It will also feature MCU alum Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) and Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan, which will mark her second role within the MCU following her appearance as a different character in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
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Destin Daniel Cretton directs Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings from a screenplay he co-wrote with Dave Callaham and Andrew Lanham. It hails from producers Kevin Feige and Jonathan Schwartz, with Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, and Charles Newirth serving as executive producers.
