Dominique Thorne to Star in Marvel’s Newly Announced ‘Ironheart’
23-year-old actress Dominique Thorne will star in Marvel’s new series Ironheart coming to Disney+.
Thorne has previously portrayed Sheila Hunt in If Beale Street Could Talk, and Judy Harmon in the upcoming film Judas and the Black Messiah, which will be released on February 12 to theatres and HBO Max.
Its kind sad to see the lack of people talking about Dominique Thorne as Ironheart in the MCU. She is going to face a lot of pressure, from fake fans. The newest iron added to the MCU , a black female who is on par with Tony. we got you girl!
— Nerdys Art Lab (@nerdysartlab) December 17, 2020
Ironheart follows Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), a Black teenage girl from Chicago, and her invention of the new Iron suit. Intelligent but a bit socially awkward, Williams attends high school at a young age, fascinated by mechanics. She continues onward to MIT as someone who loves to fix and invent gadgets. In her college dorm, Williams invents a suit that rivals the Ironman suit.
Williams first appeared in 2016 in the comic Invincible Iron Man. The following year, Williams got her own comic Ironheart. Last year, a poet, novelist, and playwright, Eve Ewing, who is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, wrote the Ironheart: Meant to Fly comics, which fans loved.
Coming soon to #DisneyPlus, Dominique Thorne is genius inventor Riri Williams in Ironheart, an Original Series about the creator of the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man. pic.twitter.com/VB94VyPr9e
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
Ironheart will be one of about ten new Marvel Series that will be released on Disney+ in the next few years. Other releases to look forward to include the 10 Star Wars series and live-action Disney movies, Pinocchio and Peter Pan and Wendy to name a few. Other upcoming releases include Disenchanted which is a sequel to the 2007 film Enchanted, which took the modern-day portrayal of a princess, as well as features from Disney animation and Pixar.
Fans of Marvel are also looking forward to the upcoming series Secret Wars and Armor Wars. All three series revolve around Iron Man. Armor Wars explores what occurs when the power of the Iron Man suit falls into the hands of War Machine who will again be portrayed by Don Cheadle.
am i going to sob my entire way through armor wars and ironheart? yeah. yeah i am
— em (@starkandmurdock) February 2, 2021
Ironheart will be available on Disney+ within the next two years, be sure to follow @Marvelstudios on Twitter to get the latest information on the new super-genius.
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