After the success of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the Marvel movie is officially getting a sequel. Destin Daniel Cretton, who directed and co-wrote the movie, has signed on to write and direct Shang-Chi 2. Of course, Simu Liu will also be back as the titular superhero, though it remains to be seen which other characters may return.

In a new interview with Collider, Cretton addressed the current status of Shang-Chi 2. The filmmaker admits he hasn't started penning the screenplay just yet, but he's "very excited" to get started on that soon. During the production of the first movie, Cretton and the Shang-Chi crew were always hoping for a sequel and even batting around ideas on the set.

"It’s always a hopeful thing, I suppose, when you’re making the movie. While we were shooting, we were throwing around joke ideas of what a sequel could be. But with Marvel, it really is gauging to see how people react to the movie and also gauging what the experience of making the movie was. We had such a good time on it that it would’ve been a shame not to have a sequel, so I’m very excited to."

Teasing what could happen in Shang-Chi 2, Destin Daniel Cretton also says that there were seeds planted in the first movie that could lead to bigger storylines in the sequel. As he's currently in the brainstorming phase of crafting the story, there are no ideas set in stone at this time, but the plan is to figure out a specific path for the plot soon.

"I’ve done [zero writing]. It’s a fun place to be right now. Everything is a possibility. We’re just tossing very loose ideas around and we’ll start to hone in on something, hopefully. There are a lot of ideas that we had in the opener, and some of those ideas are planted as questions, by the end of our movie. There are things that we potentially want to explore in the future. Everything changes so much, so it’s hard to say how many of those ideas will actually make it to the finish line, but there are many of them there."

The filmmaker goes on to detail what it takes for him to make a successful movie, as we've seen with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which he also hopes to apply to the sequel.

"I have a very low tolerance for anxiety and hype. And so, when a movie is coming out, it’s probably the worst time for me. I’ve had to really redefine what my version of success is. I define my success by the time that we finish the movie completely. When all of the creative is done, if I feel like I have been fulfilled by that process, personally, and if I feel like our team has worked together really well and done everything we possibly could to make the best version of this story possible, then I feel like we’ve succeeded. I feel like we really did do that on this movie, and everything else has been a very pleasant surprise."

Released to critical and financial success in September, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stars Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Meng'er Zhang, Fala Chen, Florian Munteanu, Benedict Wong, Michelle Yeoh, Ben Kingsley, and Tony Leung. Cretton directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Dave Callaham and Andrew Lanham.

Shang-Chi 2 doesn't have an official release date at this time. You can read the full interview with Destin Daniel Cretton at Collider.