Along with She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel it looks like we have another female lead superhero show coming from Marvel. Disney+ has become Marvel’s home for introducing new characters and giving them their origin story. This year it treated us with Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel TV series. The Marvel comic character Ironheart aka Riri Williams who was introduced in 2016 by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mike Deodato, with Eve Ewing and Kevin Libranda later redesigning the character. The character is all set to make his MCU debut in the upcoming Phase 4 film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. We got to see her first look in the Wakanda Forever trailer.
The trailer at least makes us believe that she is extremely pivotal to the film. After her debut in the Black Panther sequel, the character will be introduced to the audience via a Disney+ series; the series recently started filming as well as added a few members to its already impressive cast. As the filming has begun we have gotten the first look of the possible villain of this series Anthony Ramos as The Hood. We even got a clear look at Dominique Thorne’s Ironheart suit. In that look, we understood that the suits are very similar to Tony Stark’s designs which begs the question what is the connection between Ironheart and Ironman? Thankfully, Ryan Coogler has some comments about it.
Ironheart and Tony Stark Have A Complicated Relationship!
While promoting Wakanda Forever, Coogler talked about the relation shared between Tony and Riri Williams. He very carefully pointed towards a complicated relationship spawning.
“Yeah, yeah, that’s a great question. I don’t want to put any spoilers out there… I know you all haven’t seen the film yet. I know the same for your audience. But yeah, there is a connection there between her and Tony, but it isn’t… it’s a complicated connection. And Riri is a supporting character in this film, so she’s there kind of in concert with a lot of other characters. But she does play a major role and we will get to know a little bit about how she became who she is when we meet her in this in this film.”
He continued, “In many ways, I expect audiences to connect with her, because she is a bit of an audience surrogate in this film. She’s one of the few main characters in the film who doesn’t really have any direct experience with Wakanda or with Talokan. So she’s kind of the every person. She’s kind of reacting to things and seeing them for the first time, whereas the other characters are stoked in in the cultures of Wakanda or Talokan, if that makes sense.”
Dominique Thorne plays the lead role of Riri Williams aka Ironheart. Good Girls star Manny Montana will feature as a series regular, probably in a negative role. Along with him, In the Heights star Anthony Ramos as The Hood, This Is Us alum Lyric Ross and Shea Couleé. The series will be helmed by multiple directors including Sam Bailey (Dear White People) and Angela Barnes (Gillian in Georgia), they’ll collaborate with head writer Chinaka Hodge (Snowpiercer). Hodge even acted as Executive Producer to Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther.
Ironheart will start streaming on Disney+ in Late 2023.
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