Marvel Studios brings a brand new armor-clad superhero to film theaters (and ultimately Disney Plus) with Ironheart, the inheritor obvious of the late Tony Stark. Ironheart will seem in each this yr’s Black Panther sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and in a standalone, self-titled sequence for Disney Plus in 2023. And in the brand new trailer for Wakanda Forever, which is able to launch on Nov. 11, 2022, we see the younger hero hovering into battle for the primary time.

Ironheart’s alter ego is Riri Williams, a genius inventor who creates what Marvel describes as “the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man.” Played by Dominique Thorne (If Beale Street Could Talk), younger Riri takes on the mantle of Ironheart after she builds her personal swimsuit of souped-up armor — one which she’ll apparently improve with the superior know-how of Wakanda and its highly effective extraterrestrial component, Vibranium.

“The film deals with a lot of things, but one of them is foils — people who exist in contrast, but there’s a thread of similarity,” Ryan Coogler defined to Entertainment Weekly. “In this film, we get to see Shuri meet someone who has some things in common with her, but is also very, very different.”

Riri Williams made her Marvel Comics debut in 2016, within the pages of Invincible Iron Man. While finding out engineering at MIT — Tony Stark’s alma mater — Riri reverse-engineers an older mannequin of Iron Man’s armor and fights a little bit of crime, naturally garnering the eye of Stark and later working alongside an AI duplicate of Tony after he fell right into a coma.

Ironheart, due out in Fall 2023, isn’t the one Iron Man spinoff within the works for Disney Plus. Marvel Studios additionally has Armor Wars, primarily based on the traditional comedian sequence of the identical title, was lately promoted from a Disney Plus sequence to a full-fledged theatrical movie. The film will convey again Don Cheadle as James Rhodes, aka War Machine, to take care of Stark tech falling into the fallacious fingers.