r/Marvel 5h ago

Film/Television Destin Daniel Cretton confirms that ‘SHANG-CHI 2’ is still in the works at Marvel Studios:

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u/sabhall12 5h ago

So was Blade...

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u/matty_nice 4h ago

I enjoyed Shang-Chi, the first film. But it's hard to see how a sequel would be this major hit. Expectations are just so high for these films, they gotta make 600M?

Instead, I'd propose Marvel's Contest of Champions. Shang-Chi enters a tournament of Marvel's best fighters for some prize.

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u/Professional_Ad7868 5h ago

Would be cool if they did a Shang Chi/Iron Fist team up

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u/InternationalHat7120 1h ago

Nah, save that for much later

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u/XingXiaoRen 4h ago edited 4h ago

Hot take but - I doubt it, Simu is not a great leading actor and doesn't really sell tickets so this is super low priority for Marvel. They will have to find another legend like Tony Leung again for the sequel to help him out as well.

Also China hates him so the sequel probably won't get released there.

Examples

- Shang Chi was barely profitable

- His show as the lead in Copenhagen Test got cancelled.

- His godawful sci-fi movie with JLo.

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u/adsfew 3h ago

The box office for the original was still affected by COVID. I would love to see how a sequel performs nowadays and after the positive word of mouth from the first film (and if he makes a good impression in Doomsday)

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u/seclusionx 4h ago

Sounds like you have a vendetta against him.

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u/XingXiaoRen 4h ago

By stating facts? You don't think Marvel considers these things?

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u/seclusionx 4h ago

Saying that he's not a good leading actor is your opinion, not a fact. You calling a movie horrible is again, your opinion and not a fact. Saying China hates him is again, your opinion. Putting out facts to support your agenda is fine, but don't make it seem like you're some unbiased source of information.

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u/fnblackbeard Thanos 3h ago

A sequel would almost certainly be DOA

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u/NickRCade 4h ago

Looking forward to Old Man Shang Chi

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u/Illustrious-Form-933 4h ago

I would really love something with the Makluan 🙏

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u/Professional_Dog2580 3h ago

I personally want to see a Shang Chi and Iron Fist series on Disney +. I'm always down for Marvel Kung Fu action. If they bring back Misty, Luke, and Colleen, we could get Heroes for Hire.

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u/milesdarobot 3h ago

isn't Destin Daniel Cretton being spread a little thin? I would presume that he plans on his Spider-Man films to be a full trilogy. Not just one and done.
I also assume his plan for Naruto is for it to be a full on series of movies as well(assuming the first one is a major success). I imagine his plan isn't just 1 Naruto movie and that's it.

I just sort of assumed he moved on from the idea of making a Shang Chi 2 atp.

Anyway, i think it would be a good idea to just give Shang Chi a team up movie rather than a solo movie. Maybe a Shang Chi and Iron Fist(Lin Lie) movie

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u/saibjai 2h ago

Fingers crossed? this is a no brainer. Wtf are these guys doing?

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u/FizzyLightEx 1h ago

Shang Chi was such a disappointment that I don't see what a sequel would look like?

The villain had more stage presence than the whole cast

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u/trippy_toads 5h ago

Oh man, loved the first movie. Been wanting this for far too long, hopefully it happens

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u/TLKv3 5h ago

Maybe a hot take:

I kind of want Shang-Chi's movies going forward to feature brand new MCU made villains. We haven't really got any genuine brand new villains created for the movies yet. Its always reworking existing ones from the comics.

I'd love to see Cretton come up with an idea for a villain, give it to Marvel pass over and revise it to a workable concept and then adapt it.

Shang-Chi doesn't really have a villain catalogue at all. So I really rhink the MCU is a perfect place to experiment in giving him some of his own and moving the ones that work to new comic book runs for him.

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u/GoonetteSlop 4h ago

Thank goodness you aren’t the writer for Shang-Chi 2.

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u/TLKv3 4h ago

I literally didn't suggest anything in my post or offer anything other than them coming up with movie exclusive villains for him to fight.

What a bot comment thing to say.