An Iron Fist Is in Disney+ Animated Show Eyes of Wakanda, but 'Not the Iron Fist You Expect'

Upcoming animated bid Eyes of Wakanda is acceptable to diagnostic a Marvel quality MCU fans had thought done and dusted: Iron Fist.

The archetypal occurrence of the bid premiered astatine the Annecy Animation Festival connected June 9 and manager Todd Harris opened up astir immoderate cardinal details during a post-screening Q&A. The manager archetypal revealed that the bid is “anthology adjacent” with 30 minute-long episodes. There volition beryllium 4 episodes successful total, making up a full of 2 hours of stories.

According to Harris, those stories volition beryllium “hop-scotching done centuries” and arsenic “mostly a spy story,” they volition absorption connected stolen Wakandan exertion that indispensable beryllium retrieved.

The archetypal episode, which is titled “Into the Lion’s Den,” does immoderate superior time-traveling close disconnected the bat, bringing america to 1260 BC successful a communicative wherever a pistillate named Noni (Winnie Harlow), a erstwhile Dora Milaje with a tense past, pursues a antheral known simply arsenic Lion (Cress Williams). According to a synopsis from Variety, the quality is simply a pirate person who stole Wakandan tech to commencement his ain kingdom.

That said, the astir important tidbit Harris revealed during the Q&A was that determination volition beryllium Marvel characters we cognize and emotion popping up passim these antithetic periods of clip that necktie everything unneurotic — with 1 breathtaking inclusion: Iron Fist. Though Harris noted: “There volition beryllium an Iron Fist successful here, and not the Iron Fist you expect.”

Eyes of Wakanda includes a caller character, The Lion (center). Image credit: Marvel.

The 2017 Iron Fist Netflix bid starring Finn Jones was reasonably divisive astatine the clip and didn’t spell anyplace past its 2 play run, truthful it wouldn’t beryllium astonishing to spot this being looked astatine arsenic a accidental to revive the quality nether a cleanable slate for Marvel Studios. And theoretically, 1 could adjacent hypothesize that Harris’ determination to item that we would not beryllium getting the Iron Fist we’d expect hints that the Danny Rand change ego mightiness not adjacent beryllium portion of this caller story.

The character’s heroic relation is portion of a century-spanning bequest successful the comics, truthful this anthology format mightiness conscionable beryllium the cleanable mode for the MCU to commencement anew with Iron Fist and grow the character’s on-screen lore.

In March, Iron Fist histrion Finn Jones threw his chapeau backmost successful the MCU ring, declaring: "I’m present and I’m ready." Jones past played Danny Rand 7 years agone successful Season 2 of the Iron Fist Netflix bid and successful The Defenders, which saw the martial arts maestro squad up with Daredevil/Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter).

Jones’ instrumentality connected Iron Fist didn’t spell down arsenic good with fans arsenic the different Defenders characters, leaving immoderate to wonderment whether Marvel mightiness permission Iron Fist retired of its aboriginal MCU plans. But Daredevil’s comeback successful the MCU post-Netflix has raised hopes for a continuation of The Defenders, and caller reports indicated Marvel was “exploring” the idea.

At the caller anime convention, LaConve, successful Monterrey, NL, Mexico, Jones acknowledged disapproval of his portrayal of Iron Fist, but asked fans and Marvel to springiness him a chance.

“[There is a] willingness for the fans to spot that happen,” Jones told the assemblage astatine the normal erstwhile asked if helium could instrumentality arsenic Iron Fist. “There’s a batch of willingness for the fans to spot that not hap arsenic well. I’m precise alert of the critiques of the quality and my relation successful it.

“My effect to that is like, springiness maine a f***ing chance, man. I’m present and I’m ready. I privation to beryllium radical wrong. So I would emotion to spot that happen.”

Eyes of Wakanda is acceptable to premiere connected Disney+ connected August 6, 2025.

Image credit: Marvel.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.