How Marvel’s 'Shang-Chi' Pulled Off Its Seven Minute Bus Fight | Movies Insider

The bus fight from “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” has been praised as Marvel’s best fight sequence ever. The action scene, which is set on a moving bus, took over a year to bring to life. This included reconstructing two real buses to fit cameras inside while making room for actors Simu Liu and Florian Munteanu to fight.

Fight coordinator Andy Cheng, famous for his stunt work on Jackie Chan’s films, walked us through everything from the previsualized CGI and rehearsals used to create the action to how to fake a bus’ movements. Marvel Studios’ “Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings” is now available on all major digital platforms and on 4K ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD.

Thanks to Andy Cheng for speaking with us and Yung Lee for providing extra footage. Check out more of their work here:

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How Marvel’s 'Shang-Chi' Pulled Off Its Seven Minute Bus Fight | Movies Insider

[sami]

When you see these behind the scenes..you actually start to appreciate the background workers more than the actor!...

Love it

[chartry]

A lot of comments compared this with Jackie Chan's movies. The fact is: The action and fight scenes were designed by Brad Allan, Andy Cheng and Peng Zhang - all are alumni of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team.

[BrokenSoulConfession]

The best part is mimicking the bus shaking to be in line with the twist and turns of a San Francisco street.
But the part about Ta Lo (not shown here) is equally breathtaking. They built the entire village, up to fully functional toilets! 👏
This movie deserves an Oscar nom for VFX and production design.

[Bandstand]

What a cool scene. So glad I watched this in theaters

[paulanonuevo]

Both the stunt team and camera team deserves the same level of credit we give to the actors. Same goes for the vfx team who are the real heroes for Shang Chi.

[ZoZotwentyone]

Imagine spending a year making one 7 minute scene?!?! Marvel is killing it with the movies !!🔥🔥

[potatomatop]

Grandma and grandpa telling us how they took the bus going to school everyday.

[kyungso_o]

I'm honestly always so amazed by the teams behind these films! I can't wrap my head around the amount of planning and work they had to do!

[somu.]

When i saw the bamboo fight scene i was like this looks very similar to rush hour, and now I know that the stunt director is inspired by Jackie Chan's movie, which is really amazing...💥💯

[LuisHuangSF]

Shang-Chi has some of the best action sequences in any MCU movie. Well-done.

[FinancialShinanigan]

The crews manually moving the flaps are the real MVPs.

[kylebaldos]

Omg I remember when they were filming this scene on my block I had to call work and tell them Marvel is shooting a film and my Uber is blocked from passing through the street😂

[IKEMENOsakaman]

Wowww! I LOVE these behind the scene videos XD The actors are amazing too - they need to act really scared in a film set. I don't think I can do that!!! Hats off to their PROFESSIONALISM!

[mohdazam]

No wonder i felt Jackie Chan fighting vibe during this scene 😍 big applause to the legend

[garethfletcher]

That had Jackie Chan's Police Story written all over it. A memorable and exciting fight scene from both films. Nice work

[JH-dinu]

I remember when they filmed this on my street in SF. watched them for hours as the bus would get back into position and do the take over and over and over. They modified the bus drastically, I remember a giant engine sitting in the back half of the bus. They also had a caged compartment for the “driver” in the middle of the bus that could drive it with a remote control, not the front seat.

[davidyeah]

Not saying this is not impressive.. but the fact that Jackie chan had done a bunch of bus action scenes without any CGI more than decades ago makes modern action films hard to compare

[karansethia]

Top 10 reasons why I dont hesitate to watch any marvel movie. These guys put heart and soul in it

[Maro_MaroBCH]

" bro you got this, my bad" 😂

Best line of the scene.

[lostnumberz]

One of the best fight scenes in years, really loved how much real effects/choregraphy were used vs shaky cam and CGI that mot movies use these days