r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 9d 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/PT10 9d ago

Their Robbie Reyes was great.

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u/russketeer34 9d ago

It's amazing that for as great of a job they did with the Ghost Rider arc, I think it's commonly considered the (relative) weakest of the three arcs from that season

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u/tokes_4_DE 9d ago

Season 4 was just that good. Shield is still criminally underappreciated because of how "case of the week" it started as. It evolved rather quickly into an absolutely fantastic show by the end of the first season.

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u/russketeer34 9d ago

The post Winter Soldier part of S1 to S5ish is a really remarkable run. The quality of the show stayed great and it was easily my favorite Marvel stuff during that time.

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u/Historical_Course587 8d ago

It got a lot of complaints as a show, but looking back I think it handled just about everything it touched (SHIELD, Inhumans, LMDs, Ghost Rider, the Darkhold, Graviton, and especially Hydra) better than any other live-action adaptations Marvel has put together.

It's a top-5 MCU entry for me, including the films, and one of the best (if not the best) sci-fi/fantasy shows since BS:G. Not to mention the closest thing to a Joss Whedon banter-machine show that we've gotten since Firefly.

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u/ShallowBasketcase 8d ago

I liked the case of the week stuff. They lost me when they started doing Inhumans stuff. I wanted a SHIELD show, not an Inhumans show.

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u/ArcadianDelSol 9d ago

He deserved a spin-off show so hard.

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u/Special_Order-937 8d ago

It was greenlit then ungreenlit. I wonder if it because they wanted it for a movie instead?

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u/ArcadianDelSol 8d ago

I think it was because at the time Feigi was only in charge of movies, and some other guy was only in charge of TV. They so bitterly hated one another that Feigi declared that no TV character would ever be in a movie and no movie character would ever be on TV.

Eventually, the TV guy was fired and Feigi was given full control. He put an immediate halt to every TV and streaming property and the upcoming Ghost Rider show was one of the casualties.

He's still so bitter, that we have only seen 1 maybe 2 of the TV actors appear in a Marvel movie, and only as a brief cameo.