Blackfilm.com has exclusively learned that Nat Sanders (Moonlight) & Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir (John Wick) will be co-editing Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Sanders will be reunited with the film’s director Destin Daniel Cretton after they both worked on Short Term 12, The Glass Castle, and more recently the upcoming Just Mercy, starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson.

As Marvel’s first Asian-led film, the project which will shoot in the first half of 2020 in Sydney, Australia ahead of a February 12, 2021 release. According to HN Entertainment, the working title for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will be Steamboat.

Shang-Chi first appeared in Special Marvel Edition #15 in December 1973, hatched by Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin. In the comics, Shang-Chi is the son of China-based globalist who raised and educated his progeny in his reclusive China compound, closed off to the outside world. The son trained in the martial arts and developed unsurpassed skills. He is eventually introduced to the outside world to do his father’s bidding, and then has to come to grips with the fact his revered father might not be the humanitarian he has claimed to be and is closer to what others call him: The Devil’s Doctor.

Simu Liu will play Shang-Chi himself in the film which also stars Awkwafina. During this year’s San Diego Comic Con, it was announced that the real Mandarin, that was hinted in the “Iron Man” film, will be played by celebrated Chinese actor Tony Leung.

Besides his work with Cretton, Sanders has worked with director Barry Jenkins numerous times, from Medicine for Melancholy to the Oscar winning film Moonlight to If Beale Street Could Talk. Along with co-editor Joi McMillon, they shared an Oscar nomination for Best Editing for Moonlight.

Ronaldsdóttir is no stranger to editing comic book films as well as action films. Her previous credits include Deadpool 2 with Ryan Reynolds, Atomic Blonde with Charlize Theron, John Wick with Keanu Reeves and the upcoming comedy Playing with Fire with John Cena.

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” is set to hit cinemas on February 12, 2021.