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    Destin Daniel Cretton

    Film director and screenwriter

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      • Born in Hawaii to a Japanese-American hairdresser and a firefighter of Irish and Slovakian descent, Cretton became a lauded talent via his 2013 film “Short Term 12,” which starred “Captain Marvel” hero Brie Larson and Rami Malek ahead of their breakthroughs in “Room” and “Mr. Robot,” respectively.
  1. Sep 3, 2021 · Destin Daniel Cretton is reflecting on what his younger self would have made of all this. His new movie tells the story of Shang-Chi, the first Asian superhero to lead a Marvel film.

  2. Sep 8, 2021 · Crettons mom is Japanese American. And the film avoids the trope of making Shang-Chi’s friend group a racial rainbow. “We wanted to create characters that reflected ourselves,” Cretton says.

  3. Mar 14, 2019 · Ethnicity: *fatherIrish, Slovak *motherJapanese. Destin Daniel Cretton is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. He has directed the films I Am Not a Hipster, Short Term 12, both of which he wrote; The Glass Castle, Just Mercy, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, all of which he co-wrote.

  4. Dec 18, 2021 · Shang-Chi Director Destin Daniel Cretton On How His Asian American Upbringing Brought Authenticity To The Marvel Movie. Voices. By Erik Swann. published 18 December 2021. Shang-Chi was a...

  5. Born in Hawaii to a Japanese-American hairdresser and a firefighter of Irish and Slovakian descent, Cretton became a lauded talent via his 2013 film “Short Term 12,” which starred “Captain ...

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  6. Aug 29, 2021 · Destin Daniel Cretton, a graduate of Point Loma Nazarene University and San Diego State University, is the director of Marvel’s next superhero film, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”

  7. Oct 30, 2019 · Destin Daniel Cretton is the director of “Just Mercy,” a film about world-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson and his experiences, detailing the case of a condemned death ...