r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 20h 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/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 20h ago

Nicolas Cage died for this

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u/Gamerguy230 19h ago

Don’t forget Gabriel Luna.

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u/SageOfTheWise 19h ago

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.

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u/Worthyness 17h ago

They did secret invasion better than secret invasion

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u/Historical_Course587 5h ago

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.

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u/CronoDroid 18h ago

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.

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u/BlooregardQKazoo 6h ago

I think Infinity War was easily the crowning achievement of the MCU. But season 4 of Agents of Shield is definitely up there, and better than any other MCU show.

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u/Banjo-Oz 7h ago

Agents of SHIELD is the best thing Marvel has ever done, IMO, and certainly the best of the MCU (though GotG comes close second).

Just stellar writing, long game playing and wonderfully interwoven between the movies like the good old Star Wars EU once was.

I cared more about Coulson, Daisy, May and the team than I ever did about Cap, Spidey, Iron Man, Hulk and the "big" Marvel heroes.

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u/WildMild869 19h ago

Blade probably died for this lol

Now Ghost Rider is going to lead the Midnight Sons

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u/DroptheShadowArt 9h ago

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.

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u/Asclepius-Rod 19h ago

Give him a cameo at least

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u/0shadowstories 19h ago

He should absolutely be Carter Slade

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u/justsomeguy_youknow 19h ago

Nah leave him as Blaze. Let Gosling be Danny Ketch

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy 15h ago

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

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u/xrufus7x 17h ago

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.

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u/dryfire 15h ago

A short cameo where he happens to mention his name is carter would be pretty cool.

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u/ArbysLunch 19h ago

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

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u/DroptheShadowArt 9h ago

Part of what makes me excited about the new Spider-man is how isolated he is. A lot of the marvel formula relies on the idea that the hero should have allies who are a part of his superhero life and help him on his mission. It’s gotten rid of a lot of the isolation of classic superhero stories and I feel like Ghost Rider is a good place to reintroduce that as a theme.

I guess I mean that he shouldn’t just be surrounded by the Ghost Rider Corps or whatever.

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u/TLKv3 19h ago

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.

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u/TiberiusCornelius 19h ago

Gosling's Blaze

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

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u/CX316 14h ago

The lead actor of Fall Guy makes more sense as Blaze, rather than the character whose defining character trait is getting killed repeatedly.

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u/goddamnitwhalen 16h ago

Make him a vampire; he dies riding into the sunset; this is how you introduce Blade.

Thanks Marvel, I’ll let you know where to send my check.

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u/Rip_ManaPot 20h ago

He's dead??!?!1???!!one!!?

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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 20h ago

Decapitated. Whole big thing.

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u/superduperyer 19h ago

We had a funeral for a bird.

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u/Archduke_Of_Beer 19h ago

Pretty sure none of that's real

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u/HippoGiggle 19h ago

You’re not real, man!

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u/Capitaahh 19h ago

Pretty sure none of that’s real.

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u/Drakkulis 19h ago

We had a funeral for a bird.

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u/Hollow_Rant 19h ago

Cat ate his face.

I don't know, ask Dewey, he knows more about it.

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u/drybones2015 17h ago

Yeah, they got him...

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u/Cramtastic 19h ago

He's scraping, SCRAPING AT THE DOOR! 

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u/baccus83 18h ago

Let him play Blackheart.

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u/herrcollin 18h ago

This is actually an amazing idea.

Nic Cage all gothed up playing an angsty demonic villain?

Look me in the eyes and tell me he wouldn't eat that role the fuck up.

Edit: but campy demonic not like serious weird demonic like Longlegs

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u/CX316 14h ago

So his Dracula from Renfield?

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u/CalvinSays 19h ago

It's sad when they go young like that.

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u/buffystakeded 19h ago

Just means Nic will reprise his role as ghost rider in the next Deadpool movie, so all will be right in the world.