From Wakanda to Chicago: Riri Williams Returns Home as Marvel’s “Ironheart” Arrives on Disney+
When we first met Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) on screen in Ryan Coogler‘s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, she was a genius student inventor who had skills not seen since Tony Stark was in the game. Riri ended up becoming a massive ringer for Team Wakanda after they tapped Riri and her Tony Stark-level tech to help them in a moment of extreme danger—they’d just lost their Black Panther (the late, great Chadwick Boseman) and were facing a seriously uncertain future thanks to threats from Namor (Tenoch Huerta) and his vast army of ocean-dwelling Atlanteans. Thanks in part to Riri’s technical prowess, the Wakandans were able to hold Namor and his armies off.
Now, in a new trailer for the Coogler-produced series Ironheart, the first three episodes of which are streaming on Disney+, we see how Riri’s life after pinch-hitting for the Wakandans is shaping up. She’s as brilliant and ambitious as ever, but now she’s back in Chicago, and she needs funds to further her research. This is when she meets Parker Robbins, aka “The Hood” (Anthony Ramos), a man who plays fast and loose with the laws of the land but who has ready access to the very cash that Riri needs to cement her legacy. At one point in the trailer, she asks Parker, “We Ocean’s Eleven or the Sopranos?” questioning her new gang’s motivations. His reply? “What’s the difference?”
The six-episode series will pit Riri’s ambitions against her sense of right and wrong, as Parker and his team offer her the opportunity to fully tap into her genius and see just how far she can take her technology, but the opportunities come at a cost. Soon, Riri will find herself pitted against Parker as his ruthlessness in pursuit of his own ambitions and his offers of tech immortality.
Joining Thorne and Ramos in the cast are Lyric Ross, Alden Ehrenreich, Regan Aliyah, Manny Montana, Matthew Elam, and Anji White. Chinaka Hodge is the head writer, and Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes direct the episodes.
Check out the trailer below. Ironheart is now streaming on Disney+.
Featured image: Ironheart/Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) in Marvel Television’s IRONHEART. Photo courtesy of Marvel. © 2025 Marvel. All Rights Reserved.
