A new featurette for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings showcases the adorable stuffed prop that was used as an on-set placeholder for Morris. Shang-Chi is the 25th feature film to come from Marvel Studios, and as such, it was a massive hit upon its release in September. The film thrilled audiences with its action and heart, while also setting Simu Liu's titular character up as a key character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe moving forward. Shang-Chi is the highest-grossing film of the year domestically with $224M in United States box office receipts, and overall, the superhero flick has pulled in $431M worldwide.

Shang-Chi is one of the most fantastical films to come from Marvel Studios, as the movie showcases a variety of mythological creatures that live in the mystical city of Ta Lo. One of the most memorable creatures from the film was Morris, an oddly adorable 6-legged winged faceless fuzzball that shows up in the film's latter half alongside Ben Kingsley's Trevor Slattery. Upon the film's release, Morris immediately melted audiences' hearts and eventually even received its own Shang-Chi character poster. Now, with the 4k, Blu-ray, and DVD release of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, fans are getting an inside look at how the character came to life.

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A new featurette from Marvel Entertainment on the Shang-Chi physical release details all of the work put into bringing the creatures of Ta Lo to the big screen. The new video shows how on-set Morris was really a full-size stuffed replica covered in green screen and stuck on the end of a stick. Having the on-set double for Morris gave the actors something to react to in scenes with the lovable little creature, as the green screen replica could easily be replaced during post-production. Kingsley even got a bit attached to the double and objected to it being replaced by saying he'd grown fond of it. Check out a clip of the featurette below:

Shang-Chi's visual effects supervisor, Christopher Townsend, explains more about Morris in the featurette. Despite his fuzzy exterior, Townsend states that Morris is based on the god of chaos and confusion. He said: "Morris is based on a Hundun, which is a mythological character thought to be the god of chaos and confusion. And he's this six-legged creature, or rather he will be when we finish with him in visual effects. We used this stuffy for what we call a proxy, which allows actors to touch it, and hold it, and lift it up and things, which gives them a prop so that they can be reacting to it."

Morris was already one of the more whimsical aspects in Shang-Chi, but there's something about seeing the little green stuffed version getting waddled around set that makes it all the more entertaining. The pairing of Morris and Trevor Slattery in the second half of Shang-Chi provided some excellent comic relief to the epic demon-fighting finale of the film. While no sequel to the film has been officially announced, there's no question that Marvel will want to build upon what the world they introduced in Shang-Chi. Hopefully, when that time comes, theaters around the globe will once again be graced with the adorable wonder that is Morris.

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Source: Marvel Entertainment