Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes will direct episodes of Marvel Studios’ “Ironheart” series at Disney+, the company announced on Monday. Bailey will direct Episodes 1-3 and Barnes will direct Episodes 4-6.
Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media is producing the series alongside Marvel Studios. The Walt Disney Company has an overall exclusive television deal with Proximity that was announced in February 2021.
“Ironheart” stars 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.