[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”26654″ img_size=”738×369″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Shang-Chi will be one of the next films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Characters haven’t been cast just yet, but Shang-Chi creator Jim Starlin is hoping one character won’t show up in the film.
It was during an interview at SDCC that Starlin discussed creating Shang-Chi and the presence of Fu Manchu. The villain, who was created by Sax Rohmer; is controversial and considered the archetype for culturally insensitive “yellow peril” villain. Originally, he was portrayed as Shang-Chi’s father in the Marvel Universe.
Starlin hopes Fu Manchu is left out of the upcoming live-action film:
“It’s easier to say what I would not like to see out of Shang-Chi, and that’s Fu Manchu. I’m hoping, and I’m pretty sure they’re gonna cut him out of the whole thing… I had never read a Fu Manchu book before we did Shang-Chi. I think it was Stan [Lee] or Roy [Thomas], they bought the rights to it from the Rohmer family. Only after I got done with the first issue, did Larry Hama, a friend of mine, say, ‘Have you ever read one of these books?’ And he gave me one the next day, and I was going, ehhh, jeez, it’s kinda embarrassing.”
He added:
“Over the following week, while I was working on the second issue [of Shang-Chi], I read it. I was horrified by these… yellow peril books. These are not politically correct whatsoever. Anybody who’s not white is villainous in these things. Quite frankly, I was horrified.”
He then revealed why he had left Shang-Chi:
“That’s why I ditched Shang-Chi after only three issues and went back fully to Captain Marvel. I was kind of embarrassed by it. We’d started with good intentions, and by the time I was in the middle of the second issue I was sort of like ‘I want to get out of here.’ That’s why I only did a few issues of it.”
Who are you hoping to see in a Shang-Chi movie?
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