9 cool set design details you may have missed in 'Shang-Chi'

"Sir Ben really wanted a particular volume of Shakespeare that Trevor Slattery would have had that he would have requested from Wenwu," Sue Chan told Insider.

"Trevor's a bit of a narcissist, so we had a poster of Trevor Slattery's King Lear back when he did it in that fictitious theater in some part of London. We made a fake poster of that and we stuck that up there."

"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" utilizes flashbacks to help tell the story, so we see different versions of Wenwu's compound throughout time. Each one had a different look.

"The first one was when he is just the Mandarin and he is building this army and he spends a thousand years being the leader of an organization that are committed to unsavory things. And so that compound is very grey — the symbols of power are very prevalent," Chan said.

"But then when he marries Li, that needs to be transformed into something that reminds us of the village or rather foreshadows the village. So when she comes in and completely recreate that home, it becomes a home where it was just a fortress before."

However, upon Li's death, when Wenwu takes up the ten rings again, the compound reverts back to its original form, although there are echoes of Wenwu's happier time as part of a family.

"You need to see the parts of the home that make you sort of sad that this was a happy place, but you see it covered in this veneer of... this man who has lost his way and has gone back to his dubious pastime and is really just missing his family," Chan said.

"And so those three incarnations have to feel legitimate in order for the actors to feel that they're acting in a proper environment."

One of the various changes Chan employed was the giant Ten Rings logo that could be seen on the floor of the compound.

"In the beginning, you see the Ten Rings logo is in the ancient script, but then when it becomes their home, there is a mosaic of a Phoenix because later on, you see the Phoenix in the village," Chan said.

"And then again, later when it becomes the contemporary compound, it's the contemporary version of the Ten Rings logo with the Chinese script."

One of the moments that foreshadows Ta Lo is the segment where we see Wenwu and Li together in the compound when they are a happy family.

"The bridge that is in the garden of the compound when they're a happy family, it's the exact same bridge that's in the village that you might see villagers crossing later in the movie," Chan said.

"The idea is that Xialing is now taking over the Ten Rings and sort of rebranding it in her style," Chan said. "So a lot of the style of the graffiti and all that is taken from her nightclub. So the way her office and the graphics in there... our graphic design team basically rebranded the Ten Rings logo in Xialing's language pretty much. So we'll see where that leads."

It's been rumored that this scene could indeed lead to a spin-off series centered around Xialing's Ten Rings, although nothing official has been confirmed or even suggested at this point.

Chan, however, thinks it would be a great idea: "That's not my department, but I agree with you. I think that would be really fun. Very cool."

"Shang-Chi's tiny garage apartment... you want to really embed the idea of what their personality would be like and the kinds of things that somebody their age, their demographic, what would they think was cool?" Chan said.

Chan noted that it was a combination of her team, Simu Liu, and director Destin Daniel Cretton getting together to decide these certain details, while they also had to get Disney's help to get the clearance to use posters like these.

Continuing on from this, Chan said that she wanted Xialing's personality to really be separate from her brother's, Shang-Chi.

That's why Xialing has a very distinctive graffiti style in her fighting ring club and her newly-branded Ten Rings compound at the end. But even her childhood bedroom stands out from Shang-Chi's.

"Shang-Chi was all about fighting when he was growing up there [at the compound]. So his room has a poster about pressure points on the body and you see the post that he punches and it's sparser and more monk-like because he was just trained from an early age," Chan said.

"But she [Xialing] was a rebel. So her room kind of reflects that idea," Chan continued.

"Shang-Chi" is full of foreshadowing, particularly regarding the dragon named the Great Protector that emerges in Ta Lo during the movie's final battle.

The dragon helps the villagers of Ta Lo protect the gate that keeps the Dweller-in-Darkness and his fellow demons locked behind it. This is foreshadowed earlier on in the movie, when we see Li train Shang-Chi and Xialing in a flashback.

"Inside, where she practices Kung Fu with her children, the murals feature the dragon, but he's looking across and protecting what we were calling the mountain souls: the cave where the creature at the end comes out," Chan said. "He's really literally watching it from across that space."

So, the dragon mural is watching the gate and keeping an eye out as the real dragon does in Ta Lo.

Another piece of foreshadowing arrives when Wenwu uses the jade pendants to show his children the water map that shows the way through the moving bamboo forest. Here, you can see a mural of a gate with lions on either side of it.

"The moon gate with the protective lions on either side is also the moon gate that they go through when they get through the bamboo forest," Chan said.