In Hollywood’s latest attempt to score in the huge – but highly restrictive – Chinese market, an Asian actor has been cast as a leading Marvel superhero for the first time. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, out on Friday, takes the 25th instalment in the wildly popular Marvel film series into mythical China, where enormous beasts, mysticism and kung fu collide for a tale about the difficult relationship between a son and his father. The titular son – played by relatively unknown Chinese-Canadian actor Simu Liu – fled his controlling dad as a teenager, after being sculpted into a deadly assassin, and washes up in the United States. —agencies
