Five years after announcing the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series Ironheart, Marvel Studios has finally released a trailer for the upcoming show. Our first look at Ironheart highlights Riri Williams, the genius teenage inventor played by Dominique Thorne, who was previously introduced to the MCU in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
In the trailer, Riri enters an unassuming elevator before things quickly go awry as she faces threats beyond her scope of expertise, testing her uncanny ability to invent on the fly. She later meets the big bad of the new series, The Hood (Anthony Ramos), who offers her a big payday in return for her “genius.”
Shots of The Hood show off the character’s intensity and the peril he poses to Williams and her loved ones. His motivations are still mysterious, but the supervillain — who gained his powers in the comic books after defeating and robbing a Nisanti demon — appears hellbent on achieving his goal, with Riri in the crosshairs.
The series follows Riri in the days after the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, as she tries to make sense of her place in a super-powered world. Fans are treated to various models of the Ironheart armor throughout the trailer, with Williams flying around her hometown of Chicago in a glossy metallic, black, and white-colored suit, and working on the armor that was last seen in Wakanda Forever.
While it might seem like Ironheart is meant to replace Tony Stark as the MCU’s new-generation ironclad hero, series executive producer Ryan Coogler — fresh off his successful non-Marvel run with the popular horror hit Sinners — says she’s going to forge her own path.
“A lot of people think she’s a successor to the Iron Man legacy, but in the comic book, Riri and Tony had a friendship,” Coogler explains in the Disney Plus featurette “Legacy of Riri Williams.” “He was kind of advising her, and eventually, she got her own identity as Ironheart.”
“The story of Ironheart is not a story about the mantle of Iron Man getting passed,” Ironheart producers add in the teaser. “If anything, it’’s the opposite. It’s really about her proving herself and achieving her own legacy.”
Marvel Studios’ Ironheart has been a long time coming. Kevin Feige announced that an Ironheart show would be coming to Disney Plus back in 2020, but the series has been met with several delays. Around 2024, Brad Winderbaum,Marvel’s head of television and animation, explained to CBR’s Phase Zero podcast why shows like Ironheart had been delayed, citing a new internal strategy to spread out Marvel’s Disney Plus output.
“Frankly, in all honesty, there was a mandate to kind of create as much as we could for Disney Plus as quickly as we could,” Winderbaum said. “And then, there was a shift, and all of a sudden, we have to start spreading our release dates out. So, that really accounts for a lot of the delays. Now, we”re using that time. We”re not sitting idle. So, it stays in the oven. You can bake certain things a little more. It’s actually, I think, ultimately, it’s only going to make things better. But most of it’s just frankly shrapnel from the business.“
Ironheart will debut on Disney Plus in a three-episode premiere on June 24.
Source：https://www.polygon.com/trailer/598982/marvel-ironheart-disney-plus-tv-show-trailer
