Newcomer Harper Anthony Joins Marvel Studios ‘Ironheart’ Series (Exclusive)

Newcomer Harper Anthony has been cast in Marvel Studios’ “Ironheart” series at Disney+, TheWrap has exclusively learned.“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.”Anthony’s role is being kept under wraps. He joins a cast that includes “In the Heights” Star Anthony Ramos.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. Williams is also a genius like Tony, if that’s not immediately clear. In the comics, Pepper Potts mentors Riri in a similar fashion to how Tony took Peter Parker under his wing in the MCU, providing her with resources and a suit AI.Ironheart is a fairly new character in the comics,...