Marvel’s Ironheart: This Is Us Star Lyric Ross Joins The Upcoming Disney+ Series

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Marvel’s Ironheart, original Disney+ series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe of originally announced in December 2020, and the series has been in development ever since, with not much additional info provided. The only thing that’s known so far is that Dominique Thorne is set to star in the titular role. And now, Lyric Ross also joined the upcoming series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Marvel Studios is planning to introduce the new generation of heroes in Marvel Cinematic Universe following the events of Avengers: Endgame. Sam Wilson has already continued the path of Captain America that Steve Rogers started back in Phase 1. A similar thing happened with Kate Bishop, who was introduced as Hawkeye’s successor, and the titular hero of the upcoming She-Hulk show will also presumably continue the path of the original Hulk.

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But what about Iron Man? Who is his successor? Well, most fans would say that it’s Spider-Man, and that is true, in a way, especially after the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home. Still, after Spider-Man: No Way Home caused the MCU’s world to forget who Peter Parker is, which turned Spider-Man into more of an independent hero.

Disney and Marvel Studios announced the Ironheart series in December 2020, with Dominique Thorne set to play Riri Williams, a young inventor who managed to create the most advanced mechanical suit since Tony Stark’s era. The character was created by in 2016 in 2016 by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato. Anthony Ramos also joined the series in an undisclosed role, and Lyric Ross, who is best known for the role of Deja Pearson in NBC’s series This Is Us, now also joined the cast in an undisclosed role.

Dominique Thornewill will reportedly make her debut as Riri Williams in the upcoming movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which is set to be released on November 11, 2022. Not much is known about the Ironheart series so far, not even a release window, so stay tuned.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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