Armor Wars at Disney+ Announces New Head Writer Yassir Lester

Disney/Marvel has tapped actor/author Yassir Lester as head author on the upcoming Disney+ present Armor Wars.

Deadline reports actor Don Cheadle is reprising his position of James Rhodes, a.okay.a War Machine, and the sequence is an adaptation of the comedian sequence of the identical identify.

This isn’t the primary time Lester and Cheadle have labored collectively. The duo at present stars within the Showtime black comedy sequence Black Monday, which chronicles the aftermath of the worst inventory market crash in historical past. Lester’s different performing credit embody Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Making History, and Duncanville. As a author, Lester has labored on exhibits like Kenan, Girls, and The Carmichael Show.

In the comedian, Iron Man is a fugitive and not an Avenger. He realizes his tech has been stolen and bought to different criminals who purpose to duplicate the science behind his armor go well with. However, since Tony Stark is already useless within the MCU, it appears like Rhodes is the one who will struggle to maintain Tony Stark’s expertise from falling into the flawed fingers.

Armor Wars is the newest Marvel-Disney sequence to manifest from its comedian supply materials. It joins a protracted line of latest exhibits like an Ironheart sequence starring Dominique Thorne (with Chinaka Hodge as head author), Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, and Secret Invasion. Creating an Armor Wars present follows the road of succession of the earlier live-action Disney+ Marvel sequence like WandaVision, The Falcon and Winter Soldier, Loki, and What If…?

The exhibits on Disney+ have finished so effectively that WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier have a mixed 28 Emmy nominations. Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are nominated for finest actor and actress in a restricted sequence, whereas Don Cheadle is nominated for finest visitor actor in a drama sequence for his cameo in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

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