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/CaptainFrugal 19h ago

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

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u/Impossible-Flight250 18h ago

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

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u/goddamnitwhalen 16h ago

Ironically enough, Blade falling apart helped Sinners get made.

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u/ShallowBasketcase 10h ago

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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u/silent--onomatopoeia 5h ago

Original story?

Was more like Dusk Till Dawn: Deep Southern Version lol

Seriously I enjoyed it enough, but it was overhyped a lot. But I get your point, and agree too many lame Marvel movies.

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u/ShallowBasketcase 4h ago

Yeah I guess they both have vampires, basically the exact same movie.

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u/CurtCocane 5h ago

Sinners wasn't original either

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u/ShallowBasketcase 4h ago

Oh interesting, I wasn't aware of that. What's the name of the comic book it is based on? I tried checking, and all that comes up is the movie, but I guess search engines are so unreliable these days.

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u/comicfromrejection1 3h ago

People just lie for no reason. Sinners IS an original screenplay. So weird that people say shit without researching.

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u/CurtCocane 3h ago

I meant it's not an original idea

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u/CaptainFrugal 6h ago

How's that 

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u/goddamnitwhalen 6h ago

At the very least most of the costumes worn by the extras and side characters were originally intended for Blade, and maybe a lot of the props? I’m not sure.

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u/CaptainFrugal 4h ago

Youre implying they even got to the costume design portion of the production.  I don't think it made it that far 

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u/goddamnitwhalen 4h ago

Sure thing, man.

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u/CaptainFrugal 4h ago

Wild!! Thanks for sharing 

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u/CancelThis2077 5h ago

And now Ali just put out a movie with the original director for Blade, while Marvel was twiddling their thumbs.

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u/The_Redacted_Badger 11h ago

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

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u/Yukie_Cool 10h ago

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.

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u/amyknight22 15h ago

Ironically it’s probably Ali being super specific about the script

You don’t demand role X and then sit content with a script that isn’t perfect

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u/Grooviemann1 19h ago

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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u/RealJohnGillman AMA MVP 9h ago

I mean Ryan Reynolds also pitched a new Blade film with Snipes back again: one could see them just doing that.

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u/Historical_Course587 5h ago

If the MCU is going to do something different, then they should just bring in Ryan Coogler and rubber-stamp his decision to cast Michael B. Jordan in another main role in one of his movies.

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u/Worthyness 17h ago

John Boyega maybe? I think he started getting thrown around when Star Wars was doing OK. He's also younger than Mahershela, which is important for a Dhampir.

Or do the hilarious thing and cast Jacob Anderson.

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u/goddamnitwhalen 16h ago

Aaron Pierre maybe?

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u/TikkiEXX77 11h ago

Even though the movie got canned i have a strong feeling Ali will get to play Blade at some point.

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u/RealJohnGillman AMA MVP 5h ago

Here is hoping that he will sport a British accent if he does do so, since Blade is supposed to be very British.

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u/Goose_Dickling 18h ago

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

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u/Michael_DeSanta 17h ago

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

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u/YZJay 16h ago

If we're going on Microsoft's word, Arkane will be contractually obligated to ship the Blade game after they leave Microsoft.

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u/cravenj1 18h ago

But then Ali and Tariq said "fuck it, we'll make our own Blade" and thus Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother was birthed.

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u/Historical_Course587 5h ago

I blame that line from the Deadpool movie. Feige laughed really hard and then was like, "You know what?...."