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SHANG-CHI gets the Marvel Movie treatment

SHANG-CHI gets the Marvel Movie treatment Read the full article on AICN Roni here, Hot on the heels of the news that Marvel TV is apparently shutting down all of its Netflix series offerings, Deadline reports that Marvel Studios is fast-tracking a Shang-Chi movie as its first superhero movie tentpole franchise centering an Asian protagonist, and has secured Dave Callaham, a Chinese-American Black List screenwriter, to pen the screenplay. Created in the 70s by Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin, Shang-Chi was billed as the unknown son of Fu Manchu - so, right there, you know there's some very problematic comic book Asian history to overcome.

 

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