Before You SeeShang-Chi, You Might Want to Watch (or Re-Watch) These Marvel Projects

Are you quick to seeShang - Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ? Are you sure ? Obviously , everyone is delirious to arrest out thenext chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe . And , for the most part , Shang - Chi tells its own standalone root story . However , there are a few pieces of MCU history you could revisit beforehand that will utterly make your viewing of the film that much better . Most of them go around around the grapheme of the Mandarin and the terrorist group call the Ten Rings . So , before you see Shang - Chi sometime after September 3 , if you ’re so disposed , you might need to watch ( or re - watch ) these other Marvel projects .

Ant-Man

put one over you ! I bet you thought I was going to say Iron Man ! Well , I am , but in a moment . Ant - Man does n’t really have a ton to do with the Ten Rings but a few of the bad guy cable hanging around Pym Technologies in the film have the Ten Rings tattoos . An other reading of the pervasiveness of this organization .

Iron Man 3

This is your main course in terms of Shang - Chi prep . There are some Ten Rings visuals in the original Iron Man celluloid too ( mainly when Tony gets captured at the beginning ) , but here is where we meet the Mandarin , the grouping ’s loss leader . Sort of . He ’s played by Ben Kingsley but , later in the film , it ’s bring out he ’s just an actor . The Mandarin is n’t real and actually Guy Pierce ’s reference Aldrich Killian is the brains behind the imitation Mandarin ’s exploits . Some of this plays a part ( albeit it a smaller one ) in Shang - Chi .

All Hail the King

new uncommitted on Disney+ ( hmm … how oddly commodious ) , this Marvel One Shot is a short film which was primitively on the Thor : The Dark World Blu - ray . It come a diarist who goes into prison to interview Trevor Slattery , the literal name of Ben Kingsley ’s fibre who was act like the Mandarin . grow out , the existent Mandarin wants to meet him . And for seven years since its release fan have been like “ Wait , there ’s a substantial Mandarin ? ” Yes , there is , and you might get a hazard to conform to him in Shang - Chi .

Marvel Studios Legends

at last , on September 1 , Disney+ will sum a new sequence of its show Marvel Studios Legends , which is essentially just an official explainer series . The new sequence sharpen on , you guessed it , the Ten Rings .

Ant - Man , Iron Man 3 , All Hail the King and Marvel Studios fable are all on Disney+ . Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings opens only in theaters September 3 .

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Time to get reacquainted with the Ten Rings.