{"id":553481,"date":"2026-03-20T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553481\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:55:09","slug":"ryan-gosling-confirms-ghost-rider-talks-with-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553481\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Gosling Confirms Ghost Rider Talks With Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ryan-gosling\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ryan-gosling\" data-tag=\"ryan-gosling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Gosling<\/a> recently appeared on the \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast to promote \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d and confirmed that \u201csome discussions\u201d took place with Marvel regarding him joining the MCU as <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ghost-rider\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ghost-rider\" data-tag=\"ghost-rider\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost Rider<\/a>. The \u201cLa La Land\u201d and \u201cBarbie\u201d Oscar nominee first revealed his interest in playing Ghost Rider in 2022 while shutting down speculation that Marvel was courting him for a different role, the intergalactic officer Nova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ll keep hope alive,\u201d Gosling said on his \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d press tour when \u201cGhost Rider\u201d came up. \u201cSome discussions have been had. It\u2019s a complicated situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFeige\u2019s 2022 declaration that he\u2019d want to play Ghost Rider in the MCU was warmly received by none other than <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/marvel-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel-studios\" data-tag=\"marvel-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel Studios<\/a> president Kevin Feige.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHey man, if Ryan wants to be Ghost Rider\u2026\u201d Feige said when he learned about Gosling\u2019s Marvel pitch while on the red carpet at Comic-Con later that year. \u201cGosling\u2019s unbelievable. Ryan is amazing\u2026I\u2019d love to find a place for him in the MCU. He\u2019s dressed up as Ken on Venice Beach [filming \u2018Barbie\u2019] and gets more press than giant movies coming out that weekend. It\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cGhost Rider\u201d was first turned into a movie in 2007 with Nicolas Cage in the title role. A sequel, \u201cGhost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,\u201d was released in 2012. The first movie co-starred Eva Mendes, who just so happens to be Gosling\u2019s longtime partner. The actors have two children together. Gosling quipped to \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d host Josh Hororwitz: \u201cI\u2019m just happy one of us got to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch Gosling\u2019s full interview on the \u201cHappy Sad Confued\u201d podcast below. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Gosling recently appeared on the \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast to promote \u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d and confirmed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,114804,11204,344,24481],"class_list":["post-553481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-ghost-rider","tag-marvel-studios","tag-movies","tag-ryan-gosling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}