He gave his figurehead the name of a chicken dish. In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Tony Leung’s Xu Wenwu is revealed to be the head of a shadowy international network dating back ...

Instead, the movie features actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Shang-Chi’s father, Xu Wenwu, who is one of the most powerful beings in the MCU thanks to 10 mystical rings and incredible martial arts ...

The third act of the film sets the stage for a showdown between Xu Wenwu and his evil soldiers and the magical animals and people of Ta Lo, including Shang-Chi and Xialing’s “Auntie” Ying ...

Of course, the biggest change the filmmakers had to enact was with regard to Shang-Chi’s father. Taking Fu Manchu’s place is original character Xu Wenwu, who doubles as The Mandarin whose Ten Rings ...

Renaming Shang-Chi’s father (Xu Wenwu) and the mystical dragon (the Great Protector), which inhabits the pocket dimension village known as Ta Lo, were well-received first steps, but more was needed.

In the new film, Shang-Chi is the son of Xu Wenwu, a.k.a. the villainous Mandarin. But in the original comics, Shang-Chi’s father is the infamous — and problematic — Fu Manchu, a genius ...

Yamato: That brings to mind the gorgeous forest meet-cute we get early on, flashing back to how Shang-Chi’s parents — Leung’s Xu Wenwu and Fala Chen as Li, a master of martial arts in her ...

Shang-Chi brings in a new version of the Mandarin - sort of. Played by actor Tony Leung, the new 'Mandarin' (who never goes by that name in the movie and actually mocks it) is Xu Wenwu ...

Of course Tony Leung (who played Shang-Chi's father Xu Wenwu) is only possible for flashback sequences, as he died in the first movie. Fala Chen, who played Shang-Chi's mother Ying Li, would also ...

Shang-Chi 2 confirmed by Liu ... back Simu Liu's titular martial arts expert after his fight with his father Xu Wenwu, now wielding the ten rings and confident in his skills as a superhero.