From Wakanda to Chicago: “Ironheart” Trailer Unveils Riri Williams’ High-Stakes Journey in Marvel’s Latest
We first met Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) on screen in Ryan Coogler‘s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Riri is a genius student inventor who the Wakandans tapped in a significant time of need—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 Tony Stark-level technical prowess, the Wakandans were able to hold Namor and his armies off. Now, in a brand new trailer for the Coogler-produced new series Ironheart, Riri is front-and-center and more determined than ever to make her mark. She returns to her hometown of Chicago to continue building her insanely brilliant, wildly ambitious iron suits. Her time with the Wakandas has fired her up to do something real, something good in the world. Yet Riri finds trouble in the former of Parker Robbins, aka “The Hood” (Anthony Ramos), who makes his introduction in the trailer by trapping her in an elevator and promising her that in less than three minutes the air will become unbreathable and she’ll die, unless she can figure out a solution. This is, it turns out, Riri’s interview. Welcome to the clandestine world of genius inventors, Riri.
The trailer reveals that Riri’s ambition is huge—her “internship abroad,” as she puts her time with the Wakandas, inspired her to want to build something iconic. Parker Robbins promises her that he’ll give her the tools to carry out her vision, but like all seemingly too-good-to-be-true deals, this offer comes with a cost. Parker admits that in order to pull off something iconic, you likely have to do some “pretty questionable things.”
Those close to Riri are concerned that she’s going down the wrong path and it seems inevitable that Riri and The Hood will eventually collide.
Lyric Ross, Alden Ehrenreich, Regan Aliyah, Manny Montana, Matthew Elam, and Anji White join Thorne and Ramos in the cast. Chinaka Hodge is the head writer, and Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes direct the episodes.
Check out the trailer below. Ironheart premieres on Disney+ on June 24 with a 3-episode launch at 9 pm ET.
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Featured image: Ironheart/Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) in Marvel Television’s IRONHEART. Photo by Jalen Marlowe. © 2024 MARVEL. All Rights Reserved.
