Ironheart, the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ sequence, has reportedly employed Chinaka Hodge as the top author. Ironheart focusses on genius inventor Riri Williams — she can be performed by Dominique Thorne (If Beale Street Could Talk) — who designs probably the most superior go well with of armour since Iron Man. All indicators level to Marvel establishing Thorne’s Ironheart/ Riri Williams (Thorne) to take over from Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man / Tony Stark within the MCU, who died in the direction of the top of Avengers: Endgame.
Variety first introduced phrase of Hodge’s hiring on Ironheart, with each Marvel Studios and Hodge’s representatives refusing remark. She has beforehand labored as a employees author on the TNT post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller sequence Snowpiercer (accessible on Netflix in India and elsewhere), and govt story editor on the Apple TV+ reboot of anthology sequence Amazing Stories. Hodge can be a poet and playwright, having printed two poetry books.
Created by author Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mike Deodato, Riri Williams entered the Marvel comics universe in 2016 as a 15-year-old MIT scholar who reverse engineers Iron Man’s armour to create considered one of her personal. In the MCU, Stark is a MIT graduate — and early in Captain America: Civil War, he had visited his alma mater to exhibit the holographic tech B.A.R.F. (Binarily Augmented Retro-Framing) that was designed by Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal), the villain in Spider-Man: Far From Home.
At MIT then, Stark additionally unveiled a September Foundation grant that funded the initiatives of each MIT scholar gathered. Maybe Riri Williams will grow to be one amongst them? Of course, that is simply pure hypothesis on my half. Marvel does not at all times retain the origin tales from comedian books as is, so there isn’t any assure that Riri Williams can be a MIT scholar within the Ironheart MCU Disney+ sequence as properly. We’ll have to attend till subsequent yr at least to search out out.
Before Ironheart, on TV, we’ll see the Tom Hiddleston-led Loki (debuting June 11), adopted by Iman Vellani-starrer Ms. Marvel and Hawkeye with Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld (each late 2021). For 2022 to date, we have Oscar Issac-led Moon Knight, Mark Ruffalo and Tatiana Maslany in She-Hulk, and a Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. Then within the undated part, there’s Secret Invasion with Samuel L. Jackson, Olivia Colman, and Emilia Clarke, the Don Cheadle-led Armor Wars, a Wakanda sequence from Ryan Coogler, and a Hawkeye spin-off centred on Echo.
Ironheart is anticipated in 2022 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar. It will reportedly run for six episodes in complete. A writers’ room can be assembled beginning in May, says The Hollywood Reporter.
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