Marvel ‘Armor Wars’ Series Finds Head Writer

Marvel’s now acquired so many TV exhibits coming to Disney+ it’s robust to maintain observe of all of them. Hawkeye? That’s coming this fall. Ms. Marvel? Identical. Moon Knight? Oscar Isaac’s posting movies of him kicking stunt guys’ butts and Ethan Hawke is evaluating his villain to David Koresh. She-Hulk? That’s getting solid however not fairly in manufacturing. Ironheart? We’ll see the character in Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually earlier than her solo collection.

After which, method out on the far finish of what Marvel’s formally introduced thus far, there’s Armor Wars. All that’s recognized about that one thus far is that it’s primarily based on a well-known Marvel Comics storyline the place Tony Stark’s know-how falls into the palms of a number of unhealthy guys and he has to struggle to get it again. With Stark presdisposed within the MCU being, uh, useless, that activity will fall to Don Cheadle’s James Rhodes.

With that present inching nearer to manufacturing, Variety stories that Cheadle and Marvel have discovered the collection’ head author: Yassir Lester, who beforehand labored with Cheadle on the Showtime collection Black Monday. Lester labored as a author and an actor on that present, and has additionally written for Women and The Carmichael Present along with doing standup comedy. Armor Wars isn’t precisely a comedic idea — no less than not when it was featured within the Iron Man Marvel comedian books. However maybe the present can be just a little lighter in tone, or maybe Lester’s been ready for the chance to put in writing extra dramatic, superhero-y stuff.

Armor Wars doesn’t but have an official launch date on Disney+. Marvel’s present collection, What If…?, premieres on Wednesdays.

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