Ryan Coogler is already onto the next one. The director is fresh off the record-breaking Sinners release, and he’s already hard at work on Marvel’s next big limited series, Ironheart.

Marvel recently shared a new teaser trailer for the highly anticipated series. The Ironheart trailer officially debuted in June 2024, ahead of the show’s June 2025 premiere date.

Marvel’s Ironheart will be a six-episode limited series. As part of Phase Five, Ironheart stars Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams. Also known as Ironheart in the original comics, Riri is a 16-year-old genius-inventor and a protégé of Tony Stark. She is a main character in the original comics, working directly under Stark in his eponymous company as his successor as Iron Man.

Ironheart is the next Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) TV series in line for a summer release. It will be the last TV series in MCU’s Phase Five. The new series from Marvel was first announced all the way back in December 2020 and was originally slated for a 2023 release date. However, in 2021, Marvel announced that it would be changing its long-term strategy by releasing less media each year. In response to negative feedback regarding market saturation, Marvel pushed the anticipated premiere back to this summer.

Ironheart is “A crime show with an Iron Man twist at the center of it,” according to footage released at the 2024 D23 event. The featured description also touts the show’s “much darker and grounded vibe” compared to other MCU series.

The MCU first introduced Riri Williams in 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. After creating a vibranium detector as a high school project while studying at MIT, Riri gets embroiled in a war against Namor and his blue-skinned army. Throughout the film, Riri and Shuri form a bond as they’re both gifted science students, and Riri eventually constructs an armored suit not unlike Iron Man’s to help Wakanda defend itself. Riri, Shuri, and the rest of the crew end the film having defeated Namor, but Riri has to leave her suit with the Wakandans as she returns to MIT to finish school.

Technology versus Magic

Ironheart begins a short time after the events of Wakanda Forever. As per the official description, “Set after the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ironheart pits technology against magic when Riri—determined to make her mark on the world—returns to her hometown of Chicago. Her unique take on building iron suits is brilliant, but in pursuit of her ambitions, she finds herself wrapped up with the mysterious yet charming Parker Robbins, aka ‘The Hood’ (Anthony Ramos).”

Dominique Thorne is joined by Lyric Ross (as Riri’s best friend Natalie Washington), Alden Ehrenreich (Joe McGillicuddy), Manny Montana (Cousin John), Matthew Elam (Xavier Washington), and Anji White (Riri’s mom, Ronnie). Shea Couleé also stars as Slug. Jim Rash reprises his role as the dean of MIT, a part he also had in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, and Sacha Baron Cohen also has a role in the upcoming series, though no additional details have been released on his character.

A new teaser trailer has dropped for Marvel’s upcoming Ironheart. After arriving at a closed pizza restaurant, Riri is trapped in an elevator with a highly timed lock. The elevator room has been rigged with poison gas that fills the room in two minutes, unless Riri opens the machine blocking the exit and retrieves a gas mask to protect herself. Riri, clearly under pressure, eventually reaches the masked machine and places the helmet over her head.

The Hood, who is behind the whole thing, walks through the door and greets her. “Do I have a present for you? He says, removing the mask from her head. “Congratulations, you’ve got two minutes to do something,” he tells her over the intercom, chuckling to himself. Riri explains to the masked man over the intercom that she isn’t willing to work with them.

Riri, by all accounts, is in a highly timed trap, yet she calmly gets to work. Riri fashions a pair of seemingly homemade scuba goggles out of duct tape and puts them on in place of the gas mask. Hood remarks that Riri, by all rights, should not be there at all, yet she’s made a workable alternative to Hood’s “requirements” in under two minutes. He offers Riri a spot as his partner in a somewhat vaguely-described, clearly illegal enterprise. Riri, seemingly sold by Hood’s proposition, accepts on the condition that they can create something “iconic.” Her decision to join Hood does not go without protest from her friends, who are particularly concerned over Hood’s sketchy reputation. “Is that a threat?” Riri asks as she leaves the group. It could be, Hood later tells Riri, noting that “Anyone who has ever accomplished anything iconic in life has had to do some questionable things to get it done.”

Marvel has confirmed that the first three episodes of Ironheart will premiere on Disney+ on June 24, 2025, and the rest of the episodes will be released weekly thereafter. A second season has not been confirmed for the MCU series, though it is not out of the question if the ratings and reception are strong. Marvel’s Ironheart dropped an official trailer and behind-the-scenes featurette this week.