Marvel Studios' Ironheart Disney+ show adds Snowpiercer's Chinaka Hodge as its lead writer. The Marvel Cinematic Universe spent its first eleven years of existence becoming the biggest movie franchise in history, but Phase 4 is starting to shift stories to the small screen. WandaVision and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier are the first two MCU shows made for Disney+. They both star characters audiences know from the movies, but the television format will also be used to give new heroes a longer introduction.
Ironheart is among the slate of Disney+ shows that are expected to feature the debuts of new MCU heroes. The series was announced by Marvel Studios president, Kevin Feige, in 2020 with Dominique Thorne (Judas and the Black Messiah) announced to play the lead role of Riri Williams, a.k.a., Ironheart. The surprise announcement came without any other details on the series, including its creative team and release year. This has left several questions about the status of Ironheart's development, especially since Williams is already cast.
According to THR, Marvel Studios is taking steps forward with Ironheart after hiring Chinaka Hodge. She is a poet and educator who recently started to make a turn as a TV writer. Hodge served as a staff writer on TNT's Snowpiercer season 1. She also was the executive story editor on Apple TV+ and Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories anthology. The announcement of her involvement comes only a month or so before Ironheart reportedly starts filming.
The fast development of Ironheart follows the character's comic trajectory. She made her comic debut in 2016's Invincible Iron Man and was leading her own solo series by 2018. Williams is a young, Black, genius inventor who created her own version of the Iron Man armor. She takes on the mantle after Tony Stark falls into a coma due to the events of Civil War II and is helped by an A.I. version of Stark. Considering recent MCU events saw Tony Stark's story end, the timing of Ironheart's development is no coincidence.
It is certainly exciting to see Ironheart move forward at this pace and for Marvel Studios to put the series in Hodge's hands. Now that her involvement is known, plenty of other information about Ironheart could start to surface. There are likely several other writers who did or will contribute to the show and it is also unknown who will direct episodes of the show. Dominique Thorne is also the only confirmed Ironheart cast member, so other new cast members - and likely those familiar to MCU fans - should be announced soon. And if everything goes smoothly, hopefully Ironheart will be on Disney+ sometime in 2022.
Source: THR
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