Marvel’s ‘Ironheart’ Finds Its Directors While Ryan Coogler Boards as Executive Producer
Dominique Thorne is toplining the series, playing Riri Williams, a brilliant teenage inventor who builds her own version of the Iron Man suit in an MIT dorm.
Ryan Coogler and his production banner, Proximity Media, have joined the creative team of Ironheart, Marvel’s Disney+ series featuring the titular Iron Man-adjacent character.
At the same time, the show has firmed up its filmmaking talent, hiring Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes as directors.
Dominique Thorne is toplining Ironheart, playing Riri Williams, a brilliant teenage inventor who, in the comics, builds her own version of the Iron Man suit in an MIT dorm.
Williams debuted in 2016’s Invincible Iron Man No. 7 and was created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mike Deodato. At certain points in the comics, she even takes over for Tony Stark as Iron Man; in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., heroically died fighting power-mad Thanos in Avengers: Endgame.
