Marvel chief confirms Abomination vs. Wong fight in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
"The reason it looks like that is because that
is Abomination fighting Wong," Kevin Feige said.
By
Nick Romano
June 29, 2021 at 02:50 PM EDT
Your eyes did not deceive you, Marvel fans: The green-skinned brute known as the Abomination and the steadfast sorcerer Wong are indeed duking it out in a cage match in
the latest trailer for
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Marvel Studios boss
Kevin Feige confirmed as much in a recent
interview with Rotten Tomatoes. "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," he said.
"[It's] a fun thing to have a character that we haven't had on screen in over a decade show up again in the MCU," Feige added. "And to see fans on that little tag of the trailer recognize that and embrace that is great fun."
Tim Roth originally portrayed Abomination, a hulked-out Emil Blonsky, in 2008's
The Incredible Hulk, which starred
Edward Norton before
Mark Ruffalo took on the role of Bruce Banner. Roth has also been confirmed to appeared in
the Disney+ She-Hulk series.
As for Wong, the Master of the Mystic Arts portrayed by
Benedict Wong was last seen helping to save the planet from Thanos in
Avengers: Endgame, but he's also
set for a return in
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Our question now is, why the heck are these two fighting each other?
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stars
Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, the martial arts maven who attempts to live out a normal life before he's pulled back into the world of his father, the villainous Mandarin (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), who wields the mystical Ten Rings as his weapons.
Abomination vs. Wong in 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'
| CREDIT: MARVEL STUDIOS
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the film also features Awkwafina, Michelle Yeoh, Fala Chen, and Ronny Chieng.
"The most exciting thing about stepping into this character was that his backstory has never been told before,"
Liu previously told EW. "We know so many different versions of Batman's origin story, how his parents were murdered when he was very young. We know Peter Parker, who was bitten by a radioactive spider, and he loses his uncle. Shang-Chi's story is very much unknown to most of the world, so we had a lot of freedom and creative liberty to make it the way that we wanted to."
The film is set to hit theaters Sept. 3