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The Trailer For Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Proves the Wait Is Already Worth It

Wenwu gave Shang-Chi 10 years to live his life, so it's only fitting Marvel is FINALLY giving us the first official teaser for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings [1]. The trailer sees skilled martial artist Shang-Chi as he gets pulled back into the fold of the notorious Ten Rings organisation where he is forced to confront the legacy of his father and the organisation's leader, Wenwu. For fans of the MCU, the Ten Rings organisation was first mentioned in 2008's Iron Man.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is also Marvel's first film with an Asian protagonist. "I never saw myself [2] as the hero of my own story growing up. I struggled to find any Asian characters onscreen, and there were fewer still that made me feel truly proud of my heritage," star Simu Liu [3] said of the film in an Instagram post on April 19. "It's absolutely insane to think that in just over four months, we will have a @MarvelStudios movie featuring an almost ENTIRELY Asian cast, each full of rich nuance and dimensionality." Razor Fist [4], Ronny Chieng as Jon Jon, and Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan. You can, as Liu says, "make history [5]" when the film premieres on Sept. 3.


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