Marvel's "Ironheart" Finds Its Directors

Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes are set to direct episodes of Marvel Studios’ “Ironheart” series at Disney+.

Bailey will direct Episodes 1-3 and Barnes will direct Episodes 4-6. Chinaka Hodge is set to serve as the head writer.

Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media is producing the series along with Marvel Studios. The Walt Disney Company has an overall exclusive television deal with Proximity that was announced in February 2021.

“Ironheart” features Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, a genius inventor who builds her own advanced suit of armor and follows in Iron Man’s footsteps.

Thorne will first appear in this year’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”.

In the comics, Williams is a Black teen prodigy attending MIT who builds her own suit by reverse-engineering Tony Stark’s Iron Man suit design.

Williams is also a genius like Tony and was mentored by Pepper Potts in a similar fashion to how Tony took Peter Parker under his wing in the MCU, providing her with resources and a suit AI.

"Ironheart" is a fairly new character in the comics. She was created by Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mike Deodato and introduced in 2016.

The cast also includes Anthony Ramos and newcomer Harper Anthony.

Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Chinaka Hodge will serve as executive producers alongside Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, and Zoie Nagelhout.