Marvel Studios reminded us at D23 that Armor Wars is still on the way, and we now have an update about the show's creative team. According to listings shared by the Writer's Guild of America (first noticed by Reddit user u/xksgdm), four additional scribes have been added to the upcoming Disney+ series.
Yassir Lester has already been tapped as the show's Head Writer, of course, and joining him will be Rayna McClendon (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Lekethia Dalcoe (Two Sentence Horror Stories), Garrick Bernard (Solar Opposites), and Emma Fletcher (Parks and Recreation).
That's a great team, and McClendon, in particular, is someone whose experience promises to be invaluable to the Iron Man spinoff. As well as serving as a writer, he was also a consulting producer on the aforementioned Star Wars TV series.
The comic book version of the Armor Wars storyline saw a number of supervillains get their hands on Iron Man's technology, including the likes of Crimson Dynamo and Justin Hammer. The latter is someone fans are desperate to see return to the MCU, and he'd make a suitable enemy for Rhodey given their history in Iron Man 2.
In recent years, War Machne has definitely played a bigger role in the MCU than many fans expected, but if anyone is going to be the "new Iron Man," we have to believe it will be Riri Williams, a.k.a. Ironheart. How her journey will intersect with Rhodey's remains to be seen, but it would be a real shock for her to not factor into Armor Wars somehow.
What we do know is that Iron Man's death has left a huge void in the MCU, and there are likely to be a lot of heroes and villains now looking to fill it. The Department of Damage Control has already misappropriated his drones to hunt young superhumans, and we do wonder if Sentinels will ultimately be Stark tech.
What do you think about these additions to Armor Wars?