Michelle Yeoh is reportedly in talks to join the cast of Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
The fourth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will include the franchise’s first feature film with an Asian hero in the lead role, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Now, Michelle Yeoh is in talks to join the cast of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings according to a report by ComicBook.com.
Michelle Yeoh previously portrayed Aleta Ogord/Starhawk in Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. However, the outlet notes that Michelle Yeoh’s potential role in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings would be a separate character.
If Michelle Yeoh joins Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, she would join a group of actors to portray two separate characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that includes The Eternals star Gemma Chan and Luke Cage’s Alfre Woodard. In addition to her role in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Michelle Yeoh’s credits include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tomorrow Never Dies, Crazy Rich Asians, and Strek Trek: Discovery.
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Introduced in Special Marvel Edition #15 in December 1973, Shang-Chi is a skilled martial artist who was raised in an isolated compound located in China and trained by his father Fu Manchu, a Chinese crimelord and immortal sorcerer who repeatedly attempted to conquer the world. When Shang-Chi was finally allowed to venture into the outside world to do his father’s bidding, he learned about his father’s evil ways and faked his own death before embarking on a mission to take down Fu Manchu’s criminal empire.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton from a script written by David Callaham, Shang-Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings stars Simu Liu, Awkwafina and Tony Leung.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will be released in theaters on February 12, 2021.
Source: ComicBook.com
