The latest trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings had a couple of huge surprises! While we’ve known for a while that Tim Roth would return as Abomination in the upcoming She-Hulk series, nobody expected that he’d show up in the kung fu master’s film and battling Wong (Benedict Wong) of all people!
But was that really what we thought we saw? The scene passes by pretty quickly and maybe our eyes are deceiving us? Not so, says Marvel’s Kevin Feige! Speaking with Rotten Tomatoes, he confirms that we are not crazy and Abomination and Wong are indeed throwing down!
“Yes, we just recently released the final trailer for Shang-Chi,” Feige said. “Some fans said, ‘This looks like a character they hadn’t seen in many years named The Abomination, fighting a character that looks like Wong. And I can say that the reason it looks like that is because that is Abomination fighting Wong.”
What in the world could cause characters from such different areas of the MCU to square-off in a gladiator setting? I think that’s the thing I’m most curious about now.
Feige also talked about the decision to finally debut the real Mandarin, after Ben Kingsley played the phony version, Trevor Slattery, in Iron Man 3…
“[we] only wanted to do it when we felt we could do it supreme justice and really showcase the complexity of this character, which frankly we couldn’t do in an Iron Man movie because an Iron Man movie is about Iron Man; an Iron Man movie is about Tony Stark…Just because that version wasn’t real didn’t mean there’s not a leader of the Ten Rings organization, and that is who we meet for the first time in Shang-Chi.”
Slattery’s story continued in the 2014 Marvel One-Shot, All Hail the King, in which he’s incarcerated at Seagate Prison. It’s there that Slattery first learns the Ten Rings terrorist organization is a very real thing, and they’re likely to come looking for payback. My hope is that Kingsley will return for Shang-Chi if only so we can see Slattery made an example of!
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings opens September 3rd.
