Ryan Gosling joins the Marvel universe and will lend his features to the next Ghost Rider

The rumor turned into certainty. Marvel Studio announced with great fanfare, Saturday July 25 at San Diego Comic-Con, the entry of Ryan Gosling into the cinematic universe of superheroes. Kevin Feige, president of the studio and master of ceremonies of this high mass of pop culture, revealed the news himself in front of an audience of fans. “I feel like fans really want to see Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider », said the manager responding to a question from actor and podcaster Josh Horowitz.

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The room then fell into darkness before revealing the title of the franchise. Barely ten seconds later, the lights came back on with Ryan Gosling dressed in the hothead biker costume, videos posted on social media show. The Canadian actor arrived on the first notes of Ghost Rider, the title of the group Suicide released in 1977.

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Joined by director Shawn Levy, the actor then officially confirmed that he would lend his features to the famous demonic biker from the Marvel universe to the acclaim of the public. “Is this really happening?” It’s a character I’ve wanted to play for a very long time.” declared the actor, visibly moved by his first superhero film.

This casting is obvious: between his role as a mute driver in Drivetattooed stuntman in The Place Beyond the pines or even a solitary killer in The Gray Man, Ryan Gosling seems ideally suited to play the dark character.

Shawn Levy, the filmmaker already Gosling’s accomplice on the next Star Wars : Starfighter expected for May 2027, will reunite with the actor in 2028 for this new project written by Jonathan Tropper. If he has proven himself in the Marvel universe with Deadpool & Wolverineits register remains for the moment more associated with comedy and schoolboy humor rather than the darkness of The Phantom Rider. Part of the specialized press even questions the director’s ability to Free Guy to translate the torment of this character having sold his soul to the devil.

Return to the origins of the ghost biker

Born in 1972 from the pen of Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich and the pencil of Mike Ploog, Ghost Rider has already enjoyed the honors of the big screen in 2007 and 2012 in the guise of Nicolas Cage, in which Eva Mendes, companion of Ryan Gosling, played Roxanne Simpson, the biker’s lover. In 2016, Gabriel Luna made him appear in the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D . Filming for the third part of the adventures of Ghost Rider has not yet started. As for the release of the film, it is announced for 2028.