Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings star Simu Liu unveiled the first poster the highly-anticipated Marvel Studios adventure today, and EW has now followed-up with the first official stills.
The images give us another look at Liu as the Master of Martial Arts, as well as supporting players Awkwafina as Shang-Chi's close friend Katy, Fala Chen as the mysterious Leiko Wu, Tony Leung as the villainous Wenwu, aka The Mandarin.
"The most exciting thing about stepping into this character was that his backstory has never been told before," says Liu of landing the lead role. "We know so many different versions of Batman's origin story, how his parents were murdered when he was very young. We know Peter Parker, who was bitten by a radioactive spider, and he loses his uncle. Shang-Chi's story is very much unknown to most of the world, so we had a lot of freedom and creative liberty to make it the way that we wanted to."
"The core of Shang-Chi's arc in the comics is really a family drama," adds producer Jonathan Schwartz. "That was something that Destin keyed into really early on in our conversations, the idea of taking this broken family and this really dark, even abusive family background and seeing what that does to a child over time."
Check out the images at the link below.
Keep an eye out for much more from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (including the trailer) later today. The movie is set to hit theaters on September 3.
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