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The director of Shang-Chi and The Legend of Ten Rings, Destin Daniel Cretton has revealed a shocking detail related to the film. Daniel revealed that the film's mid-credits were changed several times by Marvel with different characters from the film.
He said, "You would think that more things came straight down from the top, but that never was [ordered down]. We were begging sometimes to like, 'Just tell us [who can be in the scene]," Cretton told Yahoo! Entertainment with a laugh. "But it took a lot of us throwing out options, like, 'How about this, how about this, how about this?' And I think because the [Marvel Cinematic Universe] is such a living organism...you know, there's writer's rooms happening, developing things simultaneously all the time. Everything does need to fit."
"Screenwriters Dave Callaham and Andrew Lanham would throw ideas up the chain for that, and sometimes we'd get a maybe," said Cretton of the scene set post-Endgame.
He added "and that meant, 'Okay, something else is developing somewhere else, but we're not totally sure if that character will make sense.' Sometimes that 'maybe' would hang for a bit, and then they'd [Marvel Studios] say, 'Oh, no, we can't do that person anymore.' We did that, I don't know [how many times]."
"We went through so many iterations who could be in that room. We knew that we wanted characters to be helping us usher Shang-Chi into the bigger universe. But those characters that we landed on made sense to all of the other things that are happening in the MCU at the time that we actually shot it."
Prior to his comments on the superhero films mid-credits just a month ago he also shared the story of how he was hired by the Studios for directing Shang-Chi and The Legend of Ten Rings.
He said, "I did have a giant personal fear of stepping into a movie like this."
"When I pitched to Kevin ... I just told myself, I'm just going to be myself. I have a tendency to be pressured to not be myself."
Cretton added, referring to Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios, "I'm just going to be myself in this pitch and walk out feeling good that I did that," he said he decided. "They asked me, 'Have you always wanted to do a big Marvel movie?"
"The truth was it was a few weeks before they announced that they were looking for a director for this movie that I made a very real decision and called my agent and said, 'Don't ever let me do a Marvel movie,'" Cretton said as the rest of the cast sitting alongside him during the press conference started to laugh.
He further added, "I explained to them when they made the announcement for 'Shang-Chi' something sparked in me that made me have to go in and just take a meeting and that turned into this," Cretton said. "When I was in the elevator going down, leaving that meeting, I thought, 'You're an idiot for saying that final thing."
Cretton continued saying, "Black Panther, which was released in 2018, became the first comic-book movie to be nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards."
"I was scared of stepping into a big studio movie like this and scared of what it might do to me," Cretton said of the pressure he anticipated from "Shang-Chi." "Will I cave? I had a lot of fears."
"The thing that Ryan said to me, which really eased my mind was, 'The pressure is hard. It'll be the hardest thing, potentially, that you have done up to this point, but none of that pressure or none of those complications come from the people that you're working with or for."
The 42-year-old director further continued saying "This is a very special place to work where - not to toot Kevin's horn - but there is an environment of curiosity, of exploration that comes from the top down."
"There's no fear-based mentality in this studio, which has really allowed us to take risks and chances and be able to instill that same fearless exploration with everybody involved in this film. And I think that's a huge reason that the movie turned out the way that it did."
The superhero film Marvel Studios Shang-Chi and The Legend of Ten Rings is the first from the studio to feature an Asian actor and is inspired by the American comic book publication known as Marvel Comics. The film is the 25th installment in the superhero-based franchise Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Destin Daniel Cretton is in charge of directing the film, Dave Callaham and Destin Daniel Cretton are responsible for writing the story. Dave Callaham, Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Lanham serve as the screenplay writer.
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The superhero epic features actors and actresses such as Awkwafina, Asian actor Simu Liu, Fala Chen, Benedict Wong, Michelle Yeoh, Ben Kingsley, Meng'er Zhang, Florian Munteanu, and Tony Leung.
A Martial-arts master named Shang-Chi is the main focus of the film where he fights with various powerful supervillains in his journey to reveal the secrets behind the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
Recently, Marvel Studios announced the release date of the film on Disney+. It will be released on the video streaming platform Disney+ on 12th November.
Disney's CEO Bob Chapak shared his thoughts on the official release of the superhero movie on Disney+ He said, "The inaugural Disney+ Day will be a grand-scale celebration of our subscribers across the entire company." He added, “This day of appreciation brings to life our mission to entertain, inform, and inspire fans and families around the globe through the power of unparalleled storytelling, and will become an annual tentpole event to be amplified across our global businesses."
An American filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, and editor Destin Daniel Cretton is mostly known for films such as Short Term 12 (2013), The Glass Castle (2017), Just Mercy (2019), and the recently released superhero film Marvel Studios Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).
