Marvel Finds Its Shang-Chi with Chinese-Canadian Actor Simu Liu

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It was announced at Comic-Con that awkwafina will be joining the cast of Marvel's ShangChi MarvelSDCC

, who in the comics was born in China to a Chinese father and a white American mother, first appeared in 1973'sand was created by Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin after Marvel failed to acquire the comic book rights to the television series Kung Fu. Shang-Chi was trained as a martial artist assassin by his father, the infamous pulp villain Fu Manchu, but later became a hero after rebelling against his father's ways.

Marvel does not have the rights to Fu Manchu, a problematic character that has roots in xenophobic "yellow peril" tropes . Sources say that Marvel is still intent doing a father-son story, with the studio revealing that the Mandarin would be the antagonist. The character was played by Ben Kingsley in, with the conceit being that Kingsley was a thespian hired to play the genius-bad guy as a diversionary ruse.and will update the character for modern audiences.

Marvel conducted a wide-ranging search for the actor to slip on the Chang-Chi shoes, narrowing its search to three finalists only last Monday. Liu was born in China and immigrated to Canada when he was five, growing up in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga. His first screen part was that of an extra on Guillermo del Toro's, which told of a Korean immigrant family running a Toronto convenience store.

 

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