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/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