A New Game is launched Ironheart mixed MCU ground-level action and Doctor Strange-style magic in the Disney Plus series for one perfect reason: “Whenever we make a new show at Marvel, we always ask ourselves, ‘What is something that only this character can offer us?'” is launched.
Ironheart mixed MCU ground-level action and Doctor Strange-style magic in the Disney Plus series for one perfect reason: “Whenever we make a new show at Marvel, we always ask ourselves, ‘What is something that only this character can offer us?'”new features
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Exclusive: Ironheart producers Sev Ohanian and Zoie Nagelhout on exploring new corners of the MCU in the new Disney Plus series
Ironheart mixed MCU ground-level action and Doctor Strange-style magic in the Disney Plus series for one perfect reason: “Whenever we make a new show at Marvel, we always ask ourselves, ‘What is something that only this character can offer us?'” new features
Unlike Loki, Wanda Maximoff, Sam Wilson, and other characters who have all been the subjects of small-screen Marvel fare, Riri Williams is a crime-fighting fledgling when it comes to the comic books.
While those heroes were introduced on the page in the ’40s and ’60s, respectively, Ironheart didn’t make her debut until 2016. For Sev Ohanian and Zoie Nagelhout, who executive produced the tech genius’s new standalone Disney Plus show, that newness was a huge part of why they wanted to make the series – and a welcome springboard to imagining all the fresh places they could go to in the MCU through her.
“She doesn’t have decades of stories to pull from, and while she has some great runs in the comics, there’s just not that many,” Ohanian tells GamesRadar+. “So when developing the show, when working with [head writer] Chinaka Hodge, there was absolutely a sense of freedom to explore not only what Riri hasn’t been through, but rather [what] the MCU hasn’t been through. That’s kind of where the tech versus magic evolved from, as an idea of something to see Riri combat and wrestle with, and maybe even engage with that in a way we just haven’t seen before.”