2014 was a big year for Marvel — the second of the Captain America films came out, and they introduced movie goers to the Guardians of the Galaxy.
So we wouldn’t fault you if you missed a particularly fortuitous request (worthy of a Marvel post-credits scene Easter egg IMHO) made that year by actor Simu Liu.
When, Liu asked the studio on Twitter, will the MCU include an Asian American superhero?
LOL
— Simu Liu (刘思慕) (@SimuLiu) July 21, 2019
Executives say they missed that tweet — but it set the stage nevertheless for this past weekend’s box office success: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (starring none other than actor Simu Liu.)
The MCU origin story earned an estimated $75 million at U.S. theaters Friday through Monday.
Disney — the film’s distributor — took a risk with the film: releasing it only in theaters and not on its streaming platform, Disney+.
