Dominique Thorne’s Riri Williams will make her debut in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” according to a source. Disney’s “Ironheart” series was first announced at its Investor Day in December, unveiling that Dominque Thorne will play Riri Williams, a young black woman who takes over the mantle of Iron Man. “She started shooting, I think, this week before her Ironheart series,” Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios President, told ComicBook.com
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Based on the comics, Williams is a black teen prodigy
attending MIT who builds her own suit by reverse-engineering Tony Stark’s Iron
Man suit design. Williams happens to be a genius like Tony Stark. From the comics,
Pepper Potts mentors Riri in a similar fashion to how Tony Stark took Peter
Parker under his wing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, giving Williams the
resources and an AI suit.
Although Ironheart is a pretty new character in the comics
which debuted in 2016 and was created by Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mike
Deodato. Heading Thorne’s live action series will be Chinaka Hodge who will serve
as the head writer of the series.
The new series is one of the most anticipated Disney+
series in the pipeline; however, it still has to wait its turn. Marvel Studios
is expected to launch “Ms. Marvel” and “Hawkeye” prior year ending, and will
have “She-Hulk,” “Moon Knight,” “Armor Wars,” “Secret Invasion,” and untitled “Black
Panther” spinoff series which is set in Wakanda. Also, there’s the “Guardians
of the Galaxy” holiday special which is expected to release on 2022.
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” will land on the
streaming platform on July 8th, 2022.