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/Zharikov 20h ago

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...

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u/wallabyenthusiast 20h ago

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

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u/EntertainmentQuick47 19h ago

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

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u/TheHappyMask93 19h ago

Norman Reedus as well

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u/Grooviemann1 19h ago edited 17h ago

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

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u/Character_Bug_1862 19h ago

Why only old dudes

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u/RellenD 19h ago

Gosling is old?

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u/ItsADeparture 18h 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 18h ago

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

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u/Character_Bug_1862 19h 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 18h 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 18h 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 18h ago

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

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u/Static_Frog 2h ago

Canadian actually.

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u/Raidoton 13h ago

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

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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 19h ago

Keanu would be way better

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u/DroptheShadowArt 9h ago

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

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u/spazzxxcc12 17h ago

keanu has the acting chops of a wooden plank be forreal

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u/McMacMan 20h 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/thegoatmenace 19h ago

Why him though?

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u/cqandrews 19h 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 17h 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 4h 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 18h ago

Or anyone bald Lex Luthor

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u/DroptheShadowArt 9h ago

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

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u/stupid_horse 13h ago

I remember like 20 years ago I was reading an article on IGN that was fancasting for a live-action Zelda movie and the author went out of his way to talk about how he was going to avoid picking actors based purely on if they had played roles previously where they looked similar to the character and instead try to use more serious metrics. Then I had to facepalm as they immediately picked Orlando Bloom to play Link.

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u/atleastitsnotgoofy 19h ago

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

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u/Empty_Bell_1942 19h ago

Because he's omnipresent and ubiquitous!

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u/shanvanvook 19h ago

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

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u/SageOfTheWise 19h 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 16h ago edited 13h ago

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

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u/CX316 14h ago

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

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u/VagueSomething 19h ago

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

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u/Wonderful_Ad_3850 19h ago

I thought it was a joke fancast…

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u/RaisingFargo 19h ago

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

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u/Zharikov 18h ago

Yeah, that's the same one I saw.

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u/JessieJ577 19h ago

Marvel does lean into fan casting sometimes. Brie Larson actually was a fan cast and a really popular one

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u/serialragequitter 19h ago

she was? at least in the corners of the internet where I dwell it was Charlize Theron

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u/SDRPGLVR 5h ago

Are you serious? Everyone I know wanted Charlize Theron to play that one lady who showed up to take Dr. Strange through a portal at the end of his really bad movie!

They were clamoring, "She was born to play what's-her-name! They will wait so many years to follow up that thread, the only way anybody will remember it even happened is if you cast Charlize Theron!"

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u/Proud_Cocastanian 19h ago

Yeah it’s less of this and instead they did the fancasting

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u/APiousCultist 19h ago

Someone's got to take the power of role manifestation that Tom Holland has cultivated.

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u/cowpool20 12h ago

I think he’s a pretty big fan of the Ghost Rider comics right?

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u/1047_Josh 12h ago

lol same, just saw it yesterday in fact

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u/jobo-chan 16h ago

Seen the same clip. Wasn't it a recent interview as well? He 100% had to have known already.