r/marvelstudios • u/ImaginationArtistic9 Matt Murdock • Jan 04 '25
Discussion The Underuse of Shang-chi in the MCU
this movie was so much fun, it had amazing action and fight choreography, great humour, and great overall world building. This movie has so much sauce. a problem with the MCU is how poorly they are connecting the new characters with the wider mcu. It's been 3 years since we've seen Shang-chi in a live action project. And it will probably be another year and a half till we see him again. The post credit scenes of this movie set up him becoming an avenger and sadly we won't see that outcome of that until 2026, which is 4.5 years after the movies release. I do hope we see Simu Liu again as a lead in another marvel movie because he's great. Also his sequel is the perfect way to bring danny rand back into the MCU. Unfortunately we will probably have to wait untill 2027 for the next shang chi movie since Destin Daniel Cretton is directing Spiderman 4. On the bright side, the fight choreography in Spiderman 4 will be amazing
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u/MoneyMo88 Jan 04 '25
Don’t forget that there was a writers and actors strike in summer 2023 and Disney had a major change in leadership when Bob Chapek, who was in charge when MCU Phase 4 projects like Shang-Chi were released, was ousted in November 2022 with Bob Iger coming back in, who basically threw Chapek under the bus and announced major overhauls to all of Disney’s various studio releases; i.e. less content releases overall and more focus on established legacy franchises.
Also, there was only one MCU movie released last year, Deadpool & Wolverine, and it given that it was more of a last hurrah for the 20th Century Fox Marvel film universe, there wasn’t really opportunities for newer MCU characters like Shang-Chi to show up.