![]() “I kept working throughout the entire process while I was holed up in Sydney, which was at the time, the best place in the world to be, so I feel very lucky.” ![]() “We started editing the first third of the movie, which we had already shot, and then we were also able to really plan out our third act in a way that we didn’t fully have the time for otherwise,” says Cretton. When filming was paused part-way through the film, Cretton shifted the post-production unit into action, working remotely to edit the completed sequences and at least get the film part-way through its post-production before filming resumed. Unusually, but perhaps unsurprisingly given the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was produced in two pieces, divided by the lockdowns in Australia in early 2020. (The scene is in the 1998 film Who Am I.) “I remember going, how the hell did you guys do that? And Andy said, we just did it,” Cretton says. That research also took Cretton to Chan’s stunt double Andy Cheng who, along with martial arts superstar, was in part of the now-iconic movie sequence in which Chan slides down a 24-storey skyscraper in Rotterdam. “I love them, but I’ve never been able to make one before.” “I watched every Jackie Chan movie there is, I was hooked on Donnie Yen and the Ip Man series, and Bruce Lee was my idol as a kid,” says Cretton. For his part, Cretton came to Shang-Chi never having directed a martial arts movie but put himself on a crash course of research.
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