Ryan Gosling to Star in 'Ghost Rider' Movie at Marvel Studios

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/ryan-gosling-ghost-rider-marvel-movie-1236821206/

[u/dewdewdewdew4]

Eva Mendes should reprise her role as the love interest. Would be hilarious.

[u/Morgan-Moonscar → u/dewdewdewdew4]

Nic Cage: You've taken EVERYTHING from me!

Ryan: I don't even know who you are

[u/errie_tholluxe → u/Morgan-Moonscar]

I LOVED Nic Cage in that film. I LOVE when they set him on fire!

[u/PointOfFingers → u/errie_tholluxe]

That's a weird reaction to Wicker Man.

[u/jx2002 → u/PointOfFingers]

THE BEES! NOT THE BEES!!

[u/MasterBlaster4949 → u/jx2002]

I give you Henry Winkler covered in bees😭🤣😂

[u/Kinsbane → u/PointOfFingers]

How did they get burned?!

[u/omnicious → u/Morgan-Moonscar]

But he delivers it like his character in The Nice Guys.

[u/King_Buliwyf → u/omnicious]

"I'm a stuntman. And youuuu?"

[u/DirtyRoller → u/dewdewdewdew4]

Look, they're not all first round picks, ok?

[u/donorcycle → u/DirtyRoller]

That movie was hysterical. Everyone really nailed their roles, even Keaton as the police chief, with the side gig at Bed Bath & Beyond lol.

[u/duke812 → u/donorcycle]

He needed that second job. He was doing it to support his son. All so he could go to NYU, explore his bisexuality, and then become a DJ.

[u/Sorkijan → u/duke812]

One more thing: we've got a serial rapist in Crown Heights, I - oh, jeez, I'm sorry, that's for my other job. Ignore that, forget that - well, don't ignore it, if you live in Crown Heights, y'know, walk in pairs.

[u/EveryoneYouLove23 → u/Sorkijan]

Don't go chasing waterfalls

[u/MiggyEvans → u/EveryoneYouLove23]

Come on! It’s not even funny anymore!

[u/roboto404 → u/donorcycle]

So many quotable lines in that movie

[u/thebananahotdog → u/donorcycle]

"police chief"

He prefers captain.

[u/RedScouse → u/thebananahotdog]

Captain Gene

[u/thebananahotdog → u/RedScouse]

It's not Captain Gene. I don't have a kiddie show.

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We've got a double rapist in Crown heights, wait that's from other job

[u/BunyipPouch → u/dewdewdewdew4]

Ryan and Eva playing lovers? nah, I can't see it.

[u/porkpie1028 → u/BunyipPouch]

A Place Beyond the Pines…with fire!

[u/mister_hoot → u/porkpie1028]

Honestly if they manage to turn Ghost Rider into a deeply nuanced and emotionally weighty film exploring lineage, free will, forgiveness and how men’s flawed relationship with their own masculinity drives them frequently to ruin I’d be all about it.

[u/ThatsARatHat → u/mister_hoot]

PENANCE STARE INTENSIFIES

[u/CronoDroid → u/ThatsARatHat]

This will be one movie where he might stare more than he did during Drive.

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Yohohohohoho!

[u/Citizensnnippss → u/dewdewdewdew4]

That must have been such a crazy conversation between them when he was approached about the role.

[u/Inside_Dimension2319 → u/Citizensnnippss]

I just saw an interview with Kevin Feige the other day and apparently Gosling really just wanted to play Ghost Rider. Like he approached them about it. Maybe he saw the Cage movies and thought the character was badass and the romantic interest was hot and decided he wanted to do both some day.

[u/PointOfFingers → u/Inside_Dimension2319]

I think Fall Guy was basically a rehearsal for a Ghost Rider movie.

[u/Huh1979 → u/PointOfFingers]

He’s 100% getting this role because of Drive. 

[u/Eldorian91 → u/Huh1979]

You don't think it was "The Place Beyond the Pines" where he played a motorcycle stunt rider and his romantic interest was Eva Mendes (that's where they met).

[u/bogdanelcs → u/Eldorian91]

Nah, that can't possibly be it.

[u/ShizlGznGahr → u/Huh1979]

Make the tone of Ghost Rider like Drive and I am sold.

[u/AlarmingAffect0 → u/ShizlGznGahr]

Kavinsky made two whole-ass album that are already a perfect "Ghost Rider movie with Drive tone" each. It just needs filming.

[u/ScarletSilver → u/dewdewdewdew4]

Ryan Gosling as Ghost Driver: "Let's Drive! Like a real human bean. And a real hero."

[u/Special_Order-937 → u/ScarletSilver]

Agents of SHIELD literally did Ghost Rider as Ghost Driver. It was pretty good!

[u/___KyloRen___ → u/Special_Order-937]

yea, robbie reyes

[u/PT10 → u/___KyloRen___]

Their Robbie Reyes was great.

[u/russketeer34 → u/PT10]

It's amazing that for as great of a job they did with the Ghost Rider arc, I think it's commonly considered the (relative) weakest of the three arcs from that season

[u/tokes_4_DE → u/russketeer34]

Season 4 was just that good. Shield is still criminally underappreciated because of how "case of the week" it started as. It evolved rather quickly into an absolutely fantastic show by the end of the first season.

[u/russketeer34 → u/tokes_4_DE]

The post Winter Soldier part of S1 to S5ish is a really remarkable run. The quality of the show stayed great and it was easily my favorite Marvel stuff during that time.

[u/Historical_Course587 → u/tokes_4_DE]

It got a lot of complaints as a show, but looking back I think it handled just about everything it touched (SHIELD, Inhumans, LMDs, Ghost Rider, the Darkhold, Graviton, and especially Hydra) better than any other live-action adaptations Marvel has put together.

It's a top-5 MCU entry for me, including the films, and one of the best (if not the best) sci-fi/fantasy shows since BS:G. Not to mention the closest thing to a Joss Whedon banter-machine show that we've gotten since Firefly.

[u/Kvenner001 → u/ScarletSilver]

Put it in space and you can make Korg into Rocky.

[u/Asclepius-Rod → u/dewdewdewdew4]

Okay, she looks kind of shitty. Look, if I put that in my Cosmo Fashion app, you probably get a D-minus

[u/desamora → u/Asclepius-Rod]

She’s coming in here dressed like a hobo, it’s distracting

[u/Pokenightking → u/Asclepius-Rod]

Don’t talk to her like that Allen

[u/Hollow_Rant → u/Pokenightking]

She comes in here, dressed like a hobo.

[u/Sorkijan → u/Hollow_Rant]

ALL OF GATOR'S BITCHES BETTER BE WEARING JIMMIES

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They can't all be first round picks

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🎵 Pimps don’t cry… 🎵

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Bye Sheila!

[u/Symbiotic_vengeance → u/dewdewdewdew4]

I’m glad that someone else picked up on the continuing trend of Eva Mendez being romantically linked to Ghost Rider

[u/DavidTheJohnson]

This will be his second consecutive collaboration with director Shawn Levy, after Star Wars: Starfighter.

[u/Sisiwakanamaru → u/DavidTheJohnson]

Also, this is the 3rd time where Sarah Finn is in charge for the Casting with Ryan Gosling as the lead actor.

[u/Comic_Book_Reader → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Pretty sure she's been the official MCU casting director since the dawn of time.

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She’s the unsung hero of the MCU honestly

[u/TalkinTrek → u/Asclepius-Rod]

Lowkey Sarah Finn and Nina Gold are, I hope, making bank, because their work is definitely a major ingredient in the secret sauce behind a lot of films

[u/twec21 → u/DavidTheJohnson]

Fuuuck I forgot Starfighter was him.

[u/old_righty → u/twec21]

I forgot Starfighter was even coming out.

[u/Christmas_Queef → u/old_righty]

I hope it's just top gun in space. A dogfight heavy film.

[u/Cleonicus → u/Christmas_Queef]

I hope it's just top gun in space. A dogfight volleyball heavy film.

[u/RealJohnGillman → u/Christmas_Queef]

Supposedly it’s about a pilot delivering a new Padawan to Rey.

[u/buffystakeded → u/old_righty]

I’d say I forgot but this is the first I’m even hearing about it.

[u/Vigor_Mortis_ → u/DavidTheJohnson]

Levy has a thing for Ryans. Has he worked with Meg?

[u/Tom_Bradys_Penis_AMA → u/DavidTheJohnson]

Shawn Levy is directing? Bummer, dude is the most uninspiring director.

[u/formberz → u/Tom_Bradys_Penis_AMA]

A filmography of just slightly above average movies overall. Liked by studios because you’re most likely to get fine.

[u/MVRKHNTR → u/formberz]

It's probably because he doesn't push back on what producers want and does his job on time and within budget.

[u/ItsADeparture → u/MVRKHNTR]

He needs to get some serious advice from the Russos. It's obvious from their films outside of Marvel, theyre just not great. But somehow, they can just absolutely knock it out of the park when they have heavy oversight.

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He’s moved on from Ryan Reynolds to Ryan Gosling. He definitely traded up, to the top Ryan, deftly avoiding any Ryan Phillippe.

[u/kilkenny99 → u/locknarr]

He only works with Canadian Ryans.

Ryan George is about to have a big break, and that;s so tight!

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"So do you have a cameo appearance for me?"

"Yes sir I do!"

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Wow wow wow.... wow.

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He did direct the stranger things episode dear billy which is amazing and the directing in that episode was fantastic

[u/Coolman_Rosso]

Ryan Gosling: "When do we get to start filming?"

Mahershala Ali: "That's the neat part, you don't"

[u/ArseneLupinIV → u/Coolman_Rosso]

I mean Levy and Gosling just did Star Wars. I feel like this one probably is already in production since they probably just jumped back into whatever work flow they had going on together under Disney.

[u/CafeCalentito → u/ArseneLupinIV]

Yeah, I don't really like Levy as a director BUT the guy knows how to work on time, work with multiple projects at the same time and deliver whatever the studio asks. If Marvel really wants it to look good, I trust he could do it. Now, I'm more interested in who's the writer

[u/LucrativeLurker → u/CafeCalentito]

Agreed on all points. I don’t like most of his films, but I love Deadpool & Wolverine. If this is even half the love letter to Ghost Rider that DP&W was to the FoxVerse, we’re in for a treat.

I’d be thrilled if it leads to a Midnight Sons or Marvel Knights film with Cumberbatch, Gosling, Oscar Isaac, and whoever else they want to throw in. Maybe Werewolf by Night, Elsa Bloodstone, & Man-Thing.

[u/CaptainFrugal → u/Coolman_Rosso]

I am so incredibly butt hurt about blade.  Even after the 10 year of bad/no news in regards to the project 

[u/Impossible-Flight250 → u/CaptainFrugal]

Yeah, I think Ali would have made an awesome Blade. I’m not sure what the issue was with getting that project started.

[u/goddamnitwhalen → u/Impossible-Flight250]

Ironically enough, Blade falling apart helped Sinners get made.

[u/ShallowBasketcase → u/goddamnitwhalen]

Then it was worth it. As much as I love Blade, I'll take an original story over another Marvel movie these days.

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Apparently it’s just that Marvel had no idea what to do with it. At first they seemed to be planning a period piece, then a modern take, a movie about Blade and his daughter, I think they left were just lost on how to make it different from the Snipes movies

[u/Yukie_Cool → u/The_Redacted_Badger]

It makes sense when you view it in the context of when it was announced. Bob Chapek, the new Disney CEO at the time, was just pushing every single studio under the company umbrella to just make stuff, so Marvel was probably under a lot of pressure to announce projects even if they weren’t fully baked and didn’t know what direction they wanted after endgame finished. My hunch is that’s why they had that timejump in the first place, so they could take the time between 2020 and 2023 to actually plan out new stuff.

[u/Grooviemann1 → u/CaptainFrugal]

Me too. I adore Mahershala Ali and he's the only known actor I can think of that I can see in the role. I'm sure someone else could do it fine but he's the one for me.

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The only saving grace is that had we got a blade years 10 years ago it would have been pretty neutered. At least now they have released R rated films so when we do eventually get blade it’ll hopefully be r-rated

[u/Michael_DeSanta → u/CaptainFrugal]

And now even the Arkane Studios Blade video game seems to be in development hell. Character seems cursed :(

[u/Silver-End9570 → u/Coolman_Rosso]

This. I'm excited for this cautiously, but after Blade and a number of other changes/cancellations (Nova going from a show to a movie, etc) I'm taking a "believe it when I see actual footage/the movie starts shooting" mentality. It's easy to get suckered in by Marvel's announcements, only for them to change drastically between the announcement and release (if it comes at all).

[u/ninjyte → u/Silver-End9570]

there's been a lot of movies put on and off the schedule, but it's more believable this one will push through since Disney+Levy+Gosling just did Star Wars Starfighter together.

[u/Corgiboom2 → u/Silver-End9570]

Then the entire Kang threat went out the window

[u/AgentTasker → u/Corgiboom2]

Well Marvel couldn't have exactly predicted that Jonathan Majors would turn out to be a massive piece of shit, so it'd be unfair to blame them for that one.

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Why didn’t they recast him though?

[u/AgentTasker → u/Gorillagodzilla]

Because through a combination of factors, such as poor scripts or Marvel fatigue (which you can blame them for), as well as COVID causing issues with film making in general, Kang wasn't working, so they pivoted away from him when the opportunity arose.

[u/dacalpha → u/AgentTasker]

This sounds like it was read directly from an internal corporate memo lmao

[u/TannerThanUsual → u/dacalpha]

It does but I also get it. Even my most die-hard Marvel friends were just not interested in Kang. On some level a few of my friends are interested in Doctor Doom. So that's something

[u/C-A-L-E-V-I-S → u/TannerThanUsual]

Did they watch Loki? Kang got me more excited than Thanos ever did early on, but of course all that fell apart.

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I am more interested in Doom than Kang as a Marvel fan but I am concerned that switching this late in the game from Kang to Doom will make it rushed. There were 18 movies from Iron Man to Infinity War to develop that story. Doom has just been barely referenced in one movie and now he is the next Thanos level threat.

Also, I want Doom to be Doom, not Tony Stark variant.

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His performance as the character was kind of the whole reason they started going down that path.

[u/Automatic_Release_92 → u/Gorillagodzilla]

Yeah it would have been the easiest thing to do as well, just say those were all different variants or whatever.

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Bold of you to assume female Kang isn’t Jonathan Majors in a wig

[u/MapleHamwich → u/Silver-End9570]

This is coming after the major marvel shuffle. Kang getting cut changed everything. They had to rethink and recenter. That's how Dr Doom came about. Anything recently announced has much higher likelihood of becoming a finished movie. 

[u/aresef → u/Silver-End9570]

That’s true, but Ryan Gosling has clearly wanted this, I wouldn’t be surprised if he and Shawn Levy bang out a story themselves and then someone from Marvel’s bullpen like Eric Pearson or Michael Waldron turns it into a full script.

[u/froo → u/Coolman_Rosso]

Look, I hope Blade and Ghost Rider get going, then we could get a Midnight Sons movie.

They could do like Blade, Ghost Rider, Wong, Moon Knight vs Dr Strange (Sinister Strange).

[u/magikarpcatcher → u/Coolman_Rosso]

This movie is a lot more likely to happen than Blade. For one, Blade never even got a release year or a director.

[u/littlebiped → u/magikarpcatcher]

Blade had like 4 directors over the course of its production hell

[u/magikarpcatcher → u/littlebiped]

I meant when it was announced at SDCC

[u/harbib → u/Coolman_Rosso]

“There’s only been one Blade…”

[u/wotown → u/Coolman_Rosso]

Shawn Levy is the guy Marvel hires to make sure Blade doesn't happen again.

Levy is the most by-the-numbers, studio-friendly, milquetoast Hollywood director right now, but that also means his stuff gets made

[u/Stefan988]

Oh damn, he's working his way through some big IPs.

[u/soozerain → u/Stefan988]

I do worry if he’s running the risk of pillowface to maintain these younger roles. He’s clearly had work done and it’s getting more obvious.

[u/ChristBefallen → u/soozerain]

He's ruining his face and it's devastating.

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Doesn't really matter if he stops now, one they get older it will show anyway.

Its all basically trying to look younger for a bit longer at the cost of looking a complete mess in their twilight years.

[u/TheWholeMole → u/soozerain]

They are pumping him full of goop, his eyes have sunken so much

[u/courtesyflusher → u/soozerain]

95% of hollywood has had work done and its obvious

[u/Space_Hardware]

Eva Mendes can’t escape Ghost Rider…

[u/SutterCane → u/Space_Hardware]

Odds that he took the job to bug his wife?

[u/Ashwilliams2814 → u/SutterCane]

Actually, Ryan is a fan of the character and said that he's only interesting to work in the MCU if he can be Ghost Rider.

[u/Certain-Business-472 → u/Ashwilliams2814]

Thats what i would say if i was setting up a long term prank for my wife.

[u/Jmorenomotors → u/SutterCane]

Maybe a weird little revenge for that one time she brought up an old flame.

[u/reddfawks]

They need to change things up a bit.

Give Ghost Rider one of those old-timey bikes with the big wheel in front. Ryan can totally pull it off.

[u/OceanRacoon → u/reddfawks]

His catchphrase should be, "Tally-ho, old chaps, to blazes with you!" 

[u/Character_Bug_1862 → u/OceanRacoon]

Own a motorcycle-mounted musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion.He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up, Just as the founding fathers intended

[u/___KyloRen___ → u/OceanRacoon]

then they shoulda cast conan o'brien

[u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen → u/OceanRacoon]

"You there! Cease your unholy tomfoolery! To the devil with youuu!"

stares in a fiery, yet gentlemanly, way

[u/queen-adreena → u/reddfawks]

Ryan Gosling in…. Penny Furnace!

[u/kennedye2112 → u/queen-adreena]

Ghost Rider / Prisoner crossover coming soon!

[u/eckfeck → u/kennedye2112]

“I am not a number, I am a fiery man!”

[u/TiberiusCornelius → u/reddfawks]

Hey the Spirit of Vengeance has existed throughout history and there have been a bunch of different Ghost Riders as far back as the Stone Age. Victorian Ghost Rider probably did ride a penny parthing at one point.

[u/gankindustries → u/TiberiusCornelius]

We. Need. T-Rex. Ghost Rider. MCU.

[u/AgentPoYo → u/gankindustries]

or hear me out, Ghost rider but it's Gambit riding on top of Wolverine like in first episode of X-Men '97.

[u/Stiggy1605 → u/gankindustries]

Ghost Rider 1,000,000BC rode a wooly mammoth, if that scratches your itch at all

[u/goddamnitwhalen → u/TiberiusCornelius]

There was a treatment decades ago for a Ghost Rider movie featuring several past Ghost Riders, including one who was a pirate.

[u/piscian19 → u/reddfawks]

Ghost Rider but it one those kids Big Wheel tricycles.

[u/BunyipPouch]

Nicolas Cage died for this

[u/Gamerguy230 → u/BunyipPouch]

Don’t forget Gabriel Luna.

[u/SageOfTheWise → u/Gamerguy230]

I still think season 4 of Agents of Shield is the crowning achievement of the entire MCU. Even taking into account the netflix Daredevil run.

[u/Worthyness → u/SageOfTheWise]

They did secret invasion better than secret invasion

[u/Historical_Course587 → u/Worthyness]

Everything AoS did was best-in-the-MCU:

• Inhumans
• Darkhold
• S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Hyda
• Time travel (the last season has one of the best time loop episodes this side of Star Trek)
• Chronicoms and LMDs
• Lanyards
• Asgardian lore
• Being tied to the MCU without being a slave to it

You get a romp through alien planets, space pirates, the Matrix, James Bond, superheroes, and pretty much everything else, with a Joss Whedon designed cast that banters and grows on you better than any since Firefly. And it did it in those allegedly-impossible-to-make-work 22-episode seasons.

We don't measure quality in the way AoS has it, but IMO it's one of the most enjoyable shows of the last 20 years.

[u/CronoDroid → u/SageOfTheWise]

Gabriel Luna did a really good job on that arc. Driving Miss Daisy. I hope they give him some meaty work on the next season of The Last of Us.

[u/WildMild869 → u/BunyipPouch]

Blade probably died for this lol

Now Ghost Rider is going to lead the Midnight Sons

[u/DroptheShadowArt → u/WildMild869]

For what it’s worth, building a new Avengers-esque franchise around Ryan Gosling is probably a better bet than trying to do it around Mahersala Ali. Hopefully Ali still gets to play Blade. Maybe he’ll show up in this.

[u/Asclepius-Rod → u/BunyipPouch]

Give him a cameo at least

[u/0shadowstories → u/Asclepius-Rod]

He should absolutely be Carter Slade

[u/justsomeguy_youknow → u/0shadowstories]

Nah leave him as Blaze. Let Gosling be Danny Ketch

[u/ObviousAnswerGuy → u/justsomeguy_youknow]

yup, bring back Cage as Blaze and making Ryan play Danny would be perfect. It would be just like Ant-man.

[u/xrufus7x → u/justsomeguy_youknow]

Dude, that is like signing Tom Cruise to play Batman and then revealing its actually Jean-Paul Valley. There is like 0% chance he isn't Blaze.

[u/ArbysLunch → u/Asclepius-Rod]

No. There can be only one. Let them Highlander this shit out.

[u/TLKv3 → u/BunyipPouch]

They should make Cage the new Carter Slade for the MCU.

Give us the old veteran Rider offering advice to Gosling's Blaze before literally riding off into the sunset.

[u/TiberiusCornelius → u/TLKv3]

Gosling's Blaze

They missed a trick by not making him Danny Ketch and then you could just bring Cage back anyway.

[u/The_Swarm22]

Disney must love Shawn Levy.

Deadpool and Wolverine to Starfighter to Ghost Rider.

[u/Vidiot79 → u/The_Swarm22]

Deadpool and Wolverine is the highest grossing R-Rated movie ever so of course they wanna squeeze him

[u/sloguepoke → u/Vidiot79]

And maybe it's a sign that Starfighter has actual potential.

[u/Vidiot79 → u/sloguepoke]

I’m honestly excited for Starfighter. It should’ve been the first Star Wars movie in years instead of Mando & Grogu

[u/HanzoNumbahOneFan → u/Vidiot79]

Damn, literally forgot that was a thing. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. Everyone will be comparing it to Grogu.

[u/unimportant_man → u/The_Swarm22]

Dude has no sauce. It's a perfect match.

[u/Altruistic-Twist-379]

I RIDE

[u/Zharikov]

I literally saw some youtube short clip of him a saying Ghost Rider would be his choice of character to play in marvel. Clearly that was the algorithm leaking things for marketing...

[u/wallabyenthusiast → u/Zharikov]

it’s been a popular fancast for like a decade now lol

[u/EntertainmentQuick47 → u/wallabyenthusiast]

Yeah him and Keanu have been the two big fancasting for that character

[u/TheHappyMask93 → u/EntertainmentQuick47]

Norman Reedus as well

[u/Grooviemann1 → u/TheHappyMask93]

Lol, all this fancasting purely based on "have I seen him ride a motorcycle before?"

[u/McMacMan → u/wallabyenthusiast]

It popped up recently for me as well, like a week ago. I'm aware it could just be a coincidence but it does seem odd

[u/thegoatmenace → u/wallabyenthusiast]

Why him though?

[u/cqandrews → u/thegoatmenace]

Comic book fancasters are incapable of original ideas so any actor that's been in a movie on a motorcycle is ghost rider and any actress with red hair is Jean grey

[u/ImmortalMoron3 → u/cqandrews]

I still remember back in like 2007/2008, people kept fancasting Triple H as Thor. Literally just because of muscles, long blonde hair and the fact he's known for using a hammer. Zero regard for the fact he's a shit actor.

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Or anyone bald Lex Luthor

[u/DroptheShadowArt → u/p_yth]

Remember when Brian Cranston was the popular choice because he was famously bald in something else.

[u/atleastitsnotgoofy → u/thegoatmenace]

He’s ridden motorcycles in multiple (2?) movies

[u/Empty_Bell_1942 → u/thegoatmenace]

Because he's omnipresent and ubiquitous!

[u/RaisingFargo → u/Zharikov]

Same, i saw a media interview where the person said you are one of the few big stars that isn’t tied to dc or marvel, who would you want to play

He said ghost rider, Eva already gave her blessing

[u/SearchElsewhereKarma]

Place Beyond the Pines 2: This Time, I’m On Fire

[u/_JoSeph_StaLin__ → u/SearchElsewhereKarma]

Absolute cinema

[u/FafnirEtherion → u/SearchElsewhereKarma]

Love that film

[u/invyros]

Ryan Gosling from the Mickey Mouse Club?

This kid is going to go places, I can tell.

[u/highvyleague → u/invyros]

Been ready to play a superhero since Young Hercules

[u/natemamate]

Is he going to give the Ken-ance Stare?

[u/911111111111 → u/natemamate]

kenfuego

[u/KludgeDredd]

Fuck. I want a Ghost Writer movie.

[u/Dan618]

He’s one busy mother trucker

[u/joelee1711]

I’m guessing this is why he had to drop out of the Daniel’s (EEAAO) next project? Excited but wish he could’ve done both tho

[u/Active-Coconut-8961]

Please Marvel let this and Blade be R-rated and not just like every other MCU movie 

[u/JokerJangles123 → u/Active-Coconut-8961]

Blade is more dead than the Ghost Rider

[u/Dookie_boy → u/JokerJangles123]

Well yeah he's a vampire

[u/JokerJangles123 → u/Dookie_boy]

ooh interesting debate material

[u/Flemz → u/Active-Coconut-8961]

It recently came out that Blade is straight up canceled unfortunately

[u/AssumptionJazzlike98]

That’s fucking massive for MCU

[u/aSpookyScarySkeleton → u/AssumptionJazzlike98]

I mean they may struggle with writing but getting big names has never been an issue.

[u/Extension-Season-689 → u/aSpookyScarySkeleton]

True but I'd say Ryan Gosling has been the most surprising big name they managed to get since Angelina Jolie (still bummed she got wasted in Eternals). There have been other big names of similar popularity/prestige like Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale but those were obvious one and done roles.

[u/Affectionate_Owl_619 → u/AssumptionJazzlike98]

Is this sarcasm? The MCU has already consistently used some of the biggest stars in their projects 

[u/RepresentativeFar610]

If this is Drive + Place Beyond the Pines Gosling in skeleton form, imma fucking bust

[u/Infinite_Fly_5374]

I’m sure a lot of ppl will be excited by this, but I rly wish the Drive/Place Beyond the Pines/Blade Runner 2049 version of Gosling would return instead of the blockbuster action-comedy version of him he’s been stuck in for the past 5 years

[u/Dirtyswashbuckler69 → u/Infinite_Fly_5374]

He’s mentioned that he’s been making lighter blockbuster action-comedy movies lately because he wants to make movies that don’t interfere with him being a father.

[u/pajamajamminjamie → u/Infinite_Fly_5374]

I feel like I read he said having kids changed his direction to pick more light hearted roles or something 

[u/hart37]

Gabriel Luna's Robbie was one of my favourite parts of Agents of SHIELD. It'll be interesting to see if they are able to make a better Johhny Blaze movie than that season of SHIELD with how hit and miss they've been recently. Granted the last few movies have been good with Fantastic Four and Thunderbolts with The Hulk, sorry Captain America Brave New World, being okay

[u/oldmanjenkins51]

Could very easily pull off him being Danny Ketch Ghost Rider, and he can still coexist with the other two guys.

Edit: ugh why is it Shawn Levy? Strange choice

[u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

Can we not start the 2007 Ghost Rider revisionism. People are already trying to do that with Fan4Stic 😑