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In the late 1980s, Stan Lee had considered a film/TV series about Shang-Chi and had in mind Brandon Lee, son of martial arts superstar Bruce Lee, for the role. Shang-Chi was visually based on Bruce Lee so Brandon seemed a fitting choice, but the plan fell through.
Simu Liu tweeted in December 2018 about asking Marvel for the role. He later retweeted that original tweet on July 20, 2019, thanking them. He was cast as Shang-Chi mostly because he was knowledgeable in taekwondo, gymnastics, and Wing Chun. For his role as the Master of Kung Fu, Liu trained in tai chi, wushu, Muay Thai, pencak silat, Krav Maga, jiu-jitsu, boxing, and street fighting. He put on 10 lbs. of muscle to play Shang-Chi.
Destin Daniel Cretton said they went through a lot of contenders for the lead role but found the perfect package in Simu Liu. He has the athletic abilities, but he's also a terrific actor, showed fantastic chemistry with Awkwafina, is fluent in English and Mandarin and is comfortable shifting between Western and Eastern cultures. Co-writer Dave Callaham adds that Liu's "code switching" ability was an integral element to the character of Shang-Chi as well.
The movie started filming in March 2020 but was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming resumed at the end of July 2020 and ended in October 2020. This production was recognized as the first feature film to reopen Disney operations globally since the COVID-19 lockdown. They managed to successfully wrap production in Australia with zero positive cases and zero production standstills.
The Mandarin in the comics (and in various animated TV shows) wears 10 alien rings on his fingers. In this film, the rings were revised to be Hung Gar iron rings worn on the forearms (five on each arm). These rings are traditionally used in martial arts training to strengthen the arms/fists.
Shang-Chi's sister Xialing runs the Golden Daggers club in Macau. In the comics, the Golden Daggers were a criminal organization led by Shang-Chi's sister (who was named Zheng Bao Yu in the comics), who established them as a rival empire to her father's.
Shang-Chi's mother Ying Li hails from the land of Ta Lo. In the Marvel Comics, Ta Lo had only appeared in one comic, Thor #301 (1980). The land was based on the Chinese heaven ("Daluo Tian"), and was populated by the Xian ("immortals"), a group of beings mistaken for gods, similar to Marvel's Asgardians and Eternals. The film does not bring up this mythic angle, and merely has Ta Lo be another world in the Marvel Multiverse.
One of the lower tier fights in Xialing's fight club had a fight between one of the Widows who appeared in Black Widow (2021) and a fighter enhanced with the extremis treatment from Iron Man 3 (2013).
Awkwafina voiced a female dragon in Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). This film marks the first appearance of a dragon (also female) in the MCU. However, a dragon also was mentioned in the Netflix series Iron Fist (2017) by the main star Danny Rand (played by Finn Jones). This dragon was Shou Lao the Undying, protector of another trans-dimensional Chinese realm - K'un Lun.
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