{"id":816208,"date":"2026-10-28T05:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816208\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T05:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:36:10","slug":"marvels-ghost-rider-eyes-connor-storrie-for-lead-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816208\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel&#8217;s Ghost Rider Eyes Connor Storrie For Lead Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having won viewers&#8217; hearts as Russian hockey wunderkind Ilya Rozanov in Crave&#8217;s massively popular queer romance series Heated Rivalry, Connor Storrie has already proven he can handle himself when things get hot and heavy. But, if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/connor-storrie-joining-ryan-gosling-ghost-rider-1236741021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">THR<\/a>&#8216;s reporting proves accurate, it looks like the rising star is heading for a heated rivalry of a very different kind with his next major project. According to the trade, Storrie is in talks to play the lead villain in Shawn Levy&#8217;s upcoming MCU movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/ryan-gosling-officially-cast-as-mcus-ghost-rider-shawn-levy-to-direct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ghost Rider<\/a>, teeing up a tantalising face-off with Ryan Gosling&#8217;s flame-headed Johnny Blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Reuniting director Shawn Levy with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/star-wars-starfighter-new-photo-sees-ryan-gosling-and-flynn-gray-stranded-at-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Star Wars: Starfighter<\/a> leading man Gosling and that movie&#8217;s writer, Jonathan Tropper (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/the-adam-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Adam Project<\/a>), Ghost Rider \u2014 a movie and a role <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/ryan-gosling-vision-for-mcu-ghost-rider-kevin-feige-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gosling has been chasing for years<\/a> \u2014 is set to see motorcycle-stuntman-turned-Spirit of Vengeance Johnny Blaze make his long-awaited Marvel Cinematic Universe debut. And while we have no inkling at this stage who from Marvel Comics&#8217; baddie canon Connor Storrie may be playing here (Deathwatch, anyone? Centurious? Blackheart, perhaps?), we do now know who&#8217;ll be shooting his and Gosling&#8217;s MCU debuts. Yes, nestled within THR&#8217;s reporting is confirmation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/dune-part-three-final-trailer-showdown-paul-chani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dune: Part Three<\/a> DP Linus Sandgren is going to be behind the camera as cinematographer here. Plus, what&#8217;s more, he&#8217;s going to be shooting on film. Cinephiles, rejoice!<\/p>\n<p>With production due to get underway in New York next year ahead of a planned July 28, 2028 cinema release, it&#8217;s heartening to see that the motors are already running on this one \u2014 and that, as with Jake Schreier&#8217;s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/x-men-mcu-cast-confirmed-d23-adam-driver-inde-navarette-christopher-abbott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X-Men<\/a> and Ryan Coogler&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/black-panther-3-david-jonsson-cast-six-months-ago-secret-meeting-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black Panther III<\/a>, Marvel Studios&#8217; top brass are continuing to look to emerging talents to spearhead the MCU&#8217;s post-Multiverse Saga future. Expect more updates on Ghost Rider as Blaze&#8217;s trails heats up in the coming weeks and months&#8230; watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having won viewers&#8217; hearts as Russian hockey wunderkind Ilya Rozanov in Crave&#8217;s massively popular queer romance series Heated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}