Ryan Gosling could play Ghost Rider in the Marvel Universe

Ryan Gosling had the best start of the year in America with Last chance project. The Canadian actor could soon be in negotiations to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe to star in a third installment Ghost Rider, hothead biker created in 1972 under the pen of Roy Thomas, Gary Friedrich and the brush of Mike Ploog. The Ghost Rider is a superhero who sold his soul to the devil, who, at nightfall, transforms into a sort of biker from Hell, displaying a flaming skull as a mask.

Podcast guest Happy Sad Confusedpresented by actor Josh Horowitz, to promote his new film Last chance project, released in theaters on March 18, the actor confirmed “ongoing discussions” about the role, while evoking “a complicated situation”. According to the magazine Varietyhe even met Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios, who “would love to find a place for him” in this universe.

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The actor had previously expressed interest in the character in 2022, while refuting rumors linking him to Nova, another Marvel character. His experience in the film The Fall Guy (2025), a comedy where he plays a movie stuntman could help him take on the role of Johnny Blaze, the cursed biker who became Ghost Rider, embodied in the first two parts by Nicolas Cage in 2007 and 2011.