Shang Chi Production, Casting and VFX

Shang Chi Production, Casting and VFX

Production

● Larger audience
● Diversity of actors and representations, able to use a wide range of talent to tell diverse stories.
● Larger talent pool of actors and directors.
● Increased efficiency as everything is 'in house', also known as Vertical Integration, when one company owns the entire production process.

Destin Daniel Cretton

Destin Daniel Cretton was the director of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings. His mission was to make films for those characters who haven't had a spotlight on them before. He was the second Asian-American director to make a Marvel film, first film with a predominantly Asian cast. His nationality is American, and was born and grew up in Hawaii to a Japanese-American mother and white father.

Critical reception

IMDb scored the film at 7.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes scored it at 92% and Metacritic scored it at 71%. IMDb uses an average of critic review scores to rate the film. Rotten tomatoes takes positive reviews and negative reviews only, regardless of the score of a single critic.

Casting

Simu Liu played Shang-Chi, Awkwafina played Katy, Tony Leung played Xu Wenwu, Michelle Yeoh played Ying Nan.

Simu Liu is proficient in stunt work and martial art. He is Chinese-Canadian and as a result can emphasise with the character he is playing. He also speaks mandarin. Disney has very few options for this role, and he fit all the criteria.

Awkwafina is a Chinese-American actress and she is a comedian and rapper. She fit the skills for the role.

Tony Leung is British-Hong Kong, and is a Chinese and British national. He has been an actor since 1982, and has starred in a various amount of movies. He is likely to have been casted for Shang-Chi as he is Asian, which Disney was looking for as they needed diversity. He was also casted as Disney decided the old actor was inappropriate and no longer needed. He can also speak mandarin. He is one of Asia's most successful actors, and adds prestige to the film.

Michelle Yeoh is a very successful actress adding prestige to the film.

Production/Australia

In Australia there is lots of space to build sets. There are also low taxes on films due to the small size of the film industry in that region, making the film cheaper to produce. What's more, the Australian film industry supported filming with a large grant. 

This is a benefit of being a global conglomerate, Disney can go anywhere thanks to their power.

Producers manage all of the staff making the film, the location of filming and the spending.

It is cheaper to use special effects than to travel back and forth internationally.

Tentpole feature - A film they are going to bank on to be successful (Hesmondhalgh).

Tax Incentive - Lowering tax just for Disney so that they are incentivised to film in Australia.

Expert crews - Benefit of being a global conglomerate; Disney has access to the best actors and facilities possible.

This production was part of the Australian Governments high successful Location Incentive Program through the Department of Infrastructure.

Production Timing

Filming of Shang Chi started in February 2020, and had to be halted for 5 months due to Covid-19.

While there was a heavy use of CGI, there were some practical sets there were built too. Just like with Snow White, the production of Shang Chi was pushing technological boundaries

Disney employed Weta Digital for some of the work on Shang Chi.

Filming in IMAX is a big risk due to the cost of doing so.



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