We had heard that the first trailer for Ironheart was set to release at some point today, but Marvel Studios has actually shared a behind-the-scenes featurette for the next MCU Disney+ series.
The full trailer is coming tomorrow, though, and this featurette does include quite a bit of new footage, as well as interviews with star Dominique Thorne, Marvel's Head of Streaming Brad Winderbaum, and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, who introduced Riri Williams in his 2022 sequel Wakanda Forever.
We also have confirmation that the show is set to premiere on June 24 with the first three episodes.
Thorne recently revealed that Tony Stark actor Robert Downey Jr. gave her his blessing to take up the Armored Avenger mantle shortly after the series wrapped.
“Robert Downey Jr and I spoke just after we wrapped, and he shared some very lovely words about my journey,” Thorne recalled during an interview with Empire. “He told me how excited he was and that he’s rooting for it, too. I literally got two thumbs up. It’s really reassuring to know you’re not embarrassing Iron Man.”
Though Williams has a genius-level intellect at her disposal, she does not have the same resources that Stark did when he started out as Iron Man (after he built his first suit with nothing but "a bunch of scraps in a cave," that is).
“She’s dumpster-diving, whereas Tony Stark [was] this bajillionaire,” Thorne added. “What she’s able to accomplish is remarkable.”
Riri is expected to don a few different costumes over the course of the series, but based on what we've seen so far, she'll be spending the majority of the show in the early prototype suit shown in the various promo images and teasers.
"There’s a full practical suit," Winderbaum confirmed during a recent interview. "It doesn’t obviously do all the crazy things that the suit does, but we used a lot of techniques that go all the way back to the first Iron Man film, where we actually had a practical suit on set."
In the comics, Riri is encouraged to suit-up and fight crime by Tony Stark, who becomes a mentor of sorts to the young hero. Stark's death in Avengers: Endgame would obviously make that particular dynamic very difficult to replicate, but - despite what's said in the featurette above - Ironheart is expected to carry on Iron Man's legacy (to some extent, at least).
Ironheart also stars Anthony Ramos, Lyric Ross, Regan Aliyah, Alden Ehrenreich, Manny Montana, Matthew Elam, and Anji White. Sacha Baron Cohen is also rumored to play Mephisto, though this has yet to be confirmed.