The Rough Cut Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings editors Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir ACE, Nat Sanders ACE and Harry Yoon ACE combined their unique skills and sensibilities to craft the heart, comedy and action that made Marvel's latest entry in the MCU a hit with audiences and critics alike.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, "Shang Chi" tells the story of a skilled martial artist who was trained to be an assassin by his father at a young age. Shang Chi chooses not to follow the same path as his father, the immortal leader of the "Ten Rings" army of assassins, and runs away to San Francisco to live a mild-mannered life parking cars.
ELÍSABET RONALDSDÓTTIR ACEIceland native, Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir, is widely known for her work on high-adrenaline action films such as Deadpool 2 (2018), Atomic Blonde (2017) and John Wick (2014). She is currently editing the action movie, Bullet Train (2022).
NAT SANDERS ACEOnce named as part of Filmmaker magazine's "25 New Faces Of Independent Cinema" in 2009, Nat Sanders is known for his work on If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Moonlight (2016), and the tv series, Girls (2016). Nat is also the only person has won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing twice.
HARRY YOON ACEImmediately prior to his work on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Harry Yoon was being lauded for his work with director Lee Isaac Chung on the Oscar®-nominated film, Minari (2020). Harry's other work includes the films The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019), First Man (2018) and Detroit (2017).
Editing Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten RingsIn our discussion with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings editors Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir ACE, Nat Sanders ACE and Harry Yoon ACE we talk about:
- Finding the beats of hand-to-hand fight scenes
- Turning a problematic open into contextual flashbacks
- Dialing in characters that exist for comic relief
- Overcoming the resistance to making big cuts that come with big costs
- Being typecast into specific genres
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