Fresh Off the Boat star Randall Park is set to play S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jimmy Woo in Marvel’s ANT-MAN AND THE WASP.

Woo’s comic book version actually predates Marvel itself; he originated in Atlas Comic’s 1956 release Yellow Claw #1, in which he faced off against the titular bad guy, a “Yellow Peril” villain in the old Fu-Manchu mold. The character has popped up periodically in the Marvel universe ever since, most notably in Jeff Parker’s critically acclaimed Agents Of Atlas run from the mid-2000s.
Park’s take on the character presumably won’t have quite such a convoluted backstory, as he gets involved in the size-changing antics of Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man and Evangeline Lilly’s Wasp. The film is scheduled for a July 2018 release, with the first film’s director, Peyton Reed, set to reprise his role.
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