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  • Shang-Chi’ Marvel’s First Asian Film Superhero Franchise, Search For Director Of Asian Descent (tr)

    12/03/2018 3:06:33 PM PST · by EdnaMode · 18 replies
    Deadline ^ | December 3, 2018 | Mike Fleming Jr.
    Marvel Studios is fast-tracking Shang-Chi to be its first superhero movie tentpole franchise with an Asian protagonist. The studio has set Chinese-American scribe Dave Callaham to write the screenplay, and Deadline hears Marvel is already looking at a number of Asian and Asian-American directors who want to do something as potentially monumental as was accomplished in Marvel’s first viable Best Picture candidate, Black Panther. That film tied into African and African American cultures and the sensibilities of its nearly all-black cast, with a black director in Ryan Coogler and writer in Joe Robert Cole. The goal here is to do...