{"id":659123,"date":"2026-10-28T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659123\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:20:08","slug":"connor-storrie-in-talks-to-join-ryan-gosling-in-marvels-ghost-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659123\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Storrie in Talks to Join Ryan Gosling in Marvel’s ‘Ghost Rider’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d star Connor Storrie<\/a> is in talks to play the villain opposite Ryan Gosling<\/a> in Marvel\u2019s \u201cGhost Rider<\/a>\u201d movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tShawn Levy is directing the film, from a script by \u201cStar Wars: Starfighter\u201d screenwriter Jonathan Tropper. \u201cGhost Rider\u201d is slated to release on July 28, 2028. Levy and Gosling also produce the project alongside Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige, Louis D\u2019Esposito and Stephen Broussard. Executive producers are Richie Palmer and Jessie Henderson.<\/p>\n

\n\tLanding a Marvel movie would be a big win for Storrie, who shot to pop culture prominence by starring as Russian hockey hunk Ilya Romanov on \u201cHeated Rivalry.\u201d As the story goes, the Texas native was waiting tables at Laurel Grill in Culver City before being offered that game-changing TV role; he\u2019s since parlayed that attention into a Primetime Emmy-nominated turn as guest host of \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d and a supporting role opposite Billie Eilish in Sarah Polley\u2019s \u201cThe Bell Jar\u201d<\/a> movie for Focus Features. The much-anticipated second season of \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d \u2014 which centers on the rivals-to-lovers journey between Storrie\u2019s Ilya and Hudson Williams\u2019 Shane Hollander \u2014 is now filming and will premiere on HBO Max next spring. Storrie is represented by CAA, Linden Entertainment, Shelter PR, and Yorn Levine.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for \u201cGhost Rider,\u201d the project is coming together quickly, with plans to begin shooting in New York next year. Feige made the surprise announcement about the movie during Marvel\u2019s Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con this summer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs you know, this is a character I\u2019ve wanted to play for a very long time,\u201d Gosling told the excited crowd.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor years, Gosling had been Marvel fans\u2019 top choice to star in a \u201cGhost Rider\u201d movie after Nicolas Cage previously played motorcycle stuntman Johnny Blaze in a 2007 origin story movie and its 2011 sequel. In the comics and those movies, Johnny sells his soul to the devil Mephisto in order to cure his father\u2019s cancer. When the rights reverted to Marvel Studios following those movies, Gabriel Luna played the Robby Reyes version of the character \u2014 a younger, Latino man \u2014 on the ABC TV show \u201cAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat said, Marvel has yet to confirm which version of Ghost Rider that Gosling will play, so it\u2019s also unclear which villain Storrie would embody. Mephisto was recently introduced into the MCU, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, in the Disney+ series \u201cIronheart.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tTHR broke news of Storrie\u2019s potential involvement in the film. Marvel Studios does not comment on casting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d star Connor Storrie is in talks to play the villain opposite Ryan Gosling in Marvel\u2019s \u201cGhost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[97198,146,114904,85,46,397,20672],"class_list":["post-659123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-connor-storrie","tag-entertainment","tag-ghost-rider","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-ryan-gosling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}