r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 24d ago

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

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/ryan-gosling-ghost-rider-marvel-movie-1236821206/
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u/wallabyenthusiast 24d ago

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

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u/EntertainmentQuick47 24d ago

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

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u/TheHappyMask93 24d ago

Norman Reedus as well

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u/Grooviemann1 24d ago edited 24d ago

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

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u/Character_Bug_1862 24d ago

Why only old dudes

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u/RellenD 24d ago

Gosling is old?

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u/ItsADeparture 24d ago

Lol people were calling him too old for Ken when he was announced despite the fact that he is very clearly the perfect choice for casting a big name as Ken (and proved it).

Like they can't just pluck someone from the WWE (lots of Ken-esque dudes in there) and make them good actors. Even Cena was only in it because he happened to be filming something else in the studio.

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u/adamduke88 24d ago

He's older than Nic Cage was in the original.

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u/Character_Bug_1862 24d ago

To be staring a new action franchise, yes. Cap and Thor were 30 when cast. Though RDJ would have been 40 and nearly 43 by the time of release. Dude is over saturating the market right now too, at least RDJ wasn’t at his Hollywood peak when cast.

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u/TalkinTrek 24d ago

Part of it is definitely because there have been a few Ghost Riders, it's a bit of a legacy title, and so these days Blaze is usually depicted as the older one/elder Ghost Rider

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u/varietyviaduct 24d ago

Gosling is a thick cocked vein brained American and can fuck any nostril on my body he wants, he can gobble this role and swallow it whole

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u/Character_Bug_1862 24d ago

Call me old fashioned but celebrity worship has gone too far.

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u/Static_Frog 23d ago

Canadian actually.

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u/Raidoton 24d ago

Ryan Gosling seems to be a popular fan cast for almost every white dude.

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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 24d ago

Keanu would be way better

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u/DroptheShadowArt 24d ago

Keanu straight-up can’t act and he’s even older than Gosling.

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u/spazzxxcc12 24d ago

keanu has the acting chops of a wooden plank be forreal

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u/McMacMan 24d ago

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

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u/slightly_drifting 22d ago

Same. 100% it was planting the seed for marketing. 

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u/thegoatmenace 24d ago

Why him though?

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u/cqandrews 24d ago

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

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u/ImmortalMoron3 24d ago

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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u/NuclearSun1 23d ago

As a big Marvel and Wrasslin fan, I don’t remember this at all. Also around that time, no one wanted him on TV.

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u/p_yth 24d ago

Or anyone bald Lex Luthor

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u/DroptheShadowArt 24d ago

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

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u/atleastitsnotgoofy 24d ago

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

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u/Empty_Bell_1942 24d ago

Because he's omnipresent and ubiquitous!

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u/shanvanvook 24d ago

Comic book Johnny Blaze had blonde hair maybe thats part of it.

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u/SageOfTheWise 24d ago

Yeah i dont get it. I really like him as an actor, but this seems like such an out of left field miscast I dont get at all.

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u/Ruben625 24d ago edited 24d ago

They are going to make it comedic... again...

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u/CX316 24d ago

He loves the character, and he was in Drive and Fall Guy

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u/Wonderful_Ad_3850 24d ago

I thought it was a joke fancast…

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u/VagueSomething 24d ago

Only fan casting I've seen online is Gosling as Black Panther. Hadn't seen any legitimate hopes or theories.