Marvel drops Ironheart trailer ahead of June release

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"Anyone who has ever accomplished anything iconic in life has had to do some questionable things."

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Dominique Thorne is back as Riri Williams in Ironheart.

 

Ryan Coogler is riding high as his new film Sinners lights up the box office, and he's got another major TV project waiting in the wings: the Marvel limited series Ironheart. And the studio has dropped a shiny new trailer ahead of the show's June release. The six-episode series stars Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, aka the titular Ironheart, a teen tech genius who is a protégé of Tony Stark in the comics. It's the final TV series in Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase Five.

 

(Some spoilers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever below.)

 

The series was first announced in December 2020 and originally slated for a 2023 release. But then Marvel began rethinking its long-term strategy and decided to scale back on content to counter suggestions of market saturation, and Ironheart was delayed until now. It has been described as "a crime show with an Iron Man twist at the center," based on footage revealed at 2024's D23 convention.

 

The character was introduced in 2022's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, in which she ran afoul of Namor and his blue-skinned superhumans because she invented a vibranium detector while at MIT. Riri bonded with Shuri over cool science stuff and built a powered exoskeleton akin to Iron Man's to help Shuri (now the Black Panther) and Wakanda wage battle against Namor's troops. When peace ultimately prevailed, Riri had to leave the suit with the Wakandans when she returned to MIT.

 

Ironheart picks up where that film left off. Per the official premise: "Set after the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ironheart pits technology against magic when Riri—determined to make her mark on the world—returns to her hometown of Chicago. Her unique take on building iron suits is brilliant, but in pursuit of her ambitions, she finds herself wrapped up with the mysterious yet charming Parker Robbins, aka 'The Hood' (Anthony Ramos)."

 

Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) doing science.

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Riri tests a glove for her exoskeleton suit.

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Ironheart takes flight.

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That's some killer poster art.

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The cast also includes Lyric Ross as Riri's BFF, Natalie Washington; Alden Ehrenreich as Joe McGillicuddy; Manny Montana as Cousin John; Matthew Elam as Xavier Washington; Anji White as Riri's mother, Ronnie; and Shea Couleé as Slug. Jim Rash returns as dean of MIT (he appeared in 2016's Captain America: Civil War), and Sacha Baron Cohen will appear in an as-yet-undisclosed role.

 

The trailer opens with Riri arriving at a shuttered pizza joint and ending up trapped in a poison-filled elevator with just two minutes to make her escape, which turns out to be a test—er, "interview"—by the Hood. "You'll suffocate and die unless you break into the device on the floor, where you'll find a gas mask," he tells her over the elevator intercom. But Riri won't play his game and comes up with her own ingenious solution.

 

The Hood is impressed and recruits her for... something, but it doesn't sound completely legal. And Riri is just frustrated enough, waiting for the world to acknowledge her gifts and longing to create something "iconic," that she accepts. She's warned by Natalie, among others, that she knows nothing about The Hood or what his true objectives might be. And she might want to heed that warning, since The Hood tells her that "anyone who has ever accomplished anything iconic in life has had to do some questionable things to get it done." Just how far is Riri willing to go to achieve her own dreams?

 

The first three episodes of Ironheart will premiere on June 24, 2025, on Disney+. You can watch a behind-the-scenes featurette below. We may even get a second season, depending on how well these six episodes perform.

 

Ryan Coogler and the filmmakers of Ironheart go behind the scenes of the all-new series.

 

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