Given how Hollywood is so into making villians complicated, the question here is how will they humanize Ming the Merciless? How can they make him “complicated”? Did his mother beat him? Did his father never tell him he was proud of him? Did he never get asked to dance at school dances?
...”how will they humanize Ming the Merciless?”
Well, the first problem is that he’s Oriental looking. Won’t play well with the Chinese audience globally. Other than that, he could have been upset that he was almost a victim of the “one child” law, but somehow survived to overthrow the Communist Masters. But then again, that wouldn’t play well either!