A Shang-Chi Movie Is Coming From Marvel
The Shang-Chi movie has a director, and a screenwriter, now we all wait to see how long until the first Marvel Asian superhero movie arrives in cinemas.
The first Marvel superhero movie with an Asian lead is Shang-Chi, and things can roll further along now that the movie has a director. Destin Daniel Cretton will helm Marvel’s Shang-Chi, and the cast is supposed to follow Black Panther’s lead and feature Asian-American talent alongside its Asian superhero, who just happens to be known as the Master of Kung Fu.
Shang-Chi Movie: What We Know So Far
There isn’t much information about the movie Shang-Chi at this point, so here’s some background on Director Destin Daniel Cretton. His first feature film was I Am Not a Hipster, and Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson and Bohemian Rhapsody’s Rami Malek starred in his second, Short Term 12 in 2013. Then, in 2017, he delivered the oh-so-emotional The Glass Castle, again with Brie Larson plus Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson.
Destin Daniel Cretton is currently in post-production on Just Mercy, and in case you have not noticed the pattern yet, it stars Brie Larson alongside Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx.
Given the love Destin Daniel Cretton clearly has for Brie Larson, does that mean Captain Marvel will make an appearance in Shang-Chi? The script isn’t done yet, but Dave Callaham is reportedly writing the Shang-Chi screenplay and given Captain Marvel should make cross-movie appearances going forward, odds are she will show up.
Dave Callaham, Superheroes, and the Shang-Chi Movie
Currently, Dave Callaham is the only writer attached to the Shang-Chi movie, and his credentials do fit the gig. He wrote Doom, The Expendables and its sequel, has story credit for Godzilla (2014), and wrote the screenplay for Wonder Woman 1984 with Geoff Johns and Patty Jenkins. Clearly, Dave Callaham knows how to craft an action picture, even if they don’t always have superheroes. And Zombieland fans should know that he wrote the sequel, Zombieland: Double Tap with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and is working on the screenplay for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2.
Dave Callaham is busy, but hopefully not so busy that he doesn’t give the Shang-Chi movie screenplay 110% because no one wants the Master of Kung Fu movie to be a massive disappointment. Considering Shang-Chi first appeared in a Marvel comic book in 1973, it is about time he gets his due on the big screen.
