It looks like one of the longest-running casting rumours in MCU history has just been confirmed… or at least that it’s been discussed.
For years, Marvel fans have hoped that Ghost Rider would make his big screen debut, after all, many of his fellow ‘dark heroes’ have already done it, ranging from Doctor Strange to Punisher, via Daredevil and Man-Thing, but while a version of the character appeared in the Agents of SHIELD series (played by Gabriel Luna) – no longer canon to the wider MCU – Jonathan “Johnny” Blaze AKA the original comics Ghostrider, has yet to appear.
And while these wishes have been going on, many fans pondered on who would play Blaze/Ghost Rider and the most popular name on that list was the always great Ryan Gosling and now Gosling has revealed that he has indeed had conversations about playing the role.
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Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (below) to promote the brilliant Project Hail Mary, the star revealed that his desire to play the character has not gone unnoticed at the house of mouse: “Some discussions have been had. It’s a complicated situation.”
However, he does say: “We’ll keep hope alive.”
And it seems that hope does indeed spring eternal as Marvel boss Kevin Feige has recently spoken briefly about Gosling wanting to join the MCU as an angry, flaming skull, saying: “If Ryan wants to be Ghost Rider… Gosling’s unbelievable. Ryan is amazing… I’d love to find a place for him in the MCU.”
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Anything to get rid of the memory of Nicholas Cage, who played Blaze/Ghost Rider not once but twice in 2007 and 2012, and both times, sadly, making a less-than-stellar impression.
So, Gosling as Ghost Rider? Like I have to ask… yeah or nay?
Thoughts? I know you have them, and I wanna hear ’em all.
Watch the interview:
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Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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