'Solo' Star Alden Ehrenreich To Join The Cast Of Marvel's New Series 'Ironheart'
News broke this past Tuesday that 33-year-old actor Alden Ehrenreich, best known for his role as the young Han Solo in the standalone Solo: A Star Wars Story, will be cast in an important role in the upcoming Marvel Disney+ series Ironheart. It is unknown at this point who he will be portraying. Perhaps more information about Ehrenreich’s specific role in the upcoming series will be revealed at Marvel’s panel during this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.
Ehrenreich will join actor Anthony Ramos (Hamilton, In the Heights), and actress Dominique Thorne (Judas and the Black Messiah), who will be playing the main character Riri Williams, the genius creator of an advanced suit of armor that rivals Iron Man’s. Thorne will be making her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in this year’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
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In the comics, Ironheart or Riri Williams is a genius inventor who pursued a career in science at a very young age. When Williams was eleven years old she was accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was able to acquire a Mark-41 Iron Man suit from the school’s robotics lab, which she then reverse-engineered and modified to her preferences. Like Tony Stark, Williams does not have any super powers or any special abilities, but she makes up for it with her intelligence. The Disney+ series may follow this storyline, but it is all still up in the air what actually will be portrayed. There is currently an animated series on Disney+ called Rising: Heart of Iron for those interested in checking out the character’s story.
Ironheart has begun filming in June, and some have speculated the release date to be sometime around the end of this year. The series will join other Disney+ Marvel live-action shows like Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, Hawkeye, Loki, and WandaVison.
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