Marvel Studios’ Ghost Rider, starring Ryan Gosling as the fiery motorcycle-riding antihero, has officially been dated for July 28, 2028, making it the third Marvel release confirmed for that year.
The date came as part of a broader wave of release updates from Disney following this past weekend’s D23 fan event.
Black Panther 3 is set to follow later that year on December 15, while an untitled X-Men reboot lands earlier, on May 5.
Gosling’s casting was first announced at Marvel’s Hall H panel during San Diego Comic-Con in July, where Shawn Levy, who directed Deadpool & Wolverine, was revealed as the film’s director.
Gosling reacted to the news on stage at the time with visible excitement.
“Wow, is this really happening? As you know, this is a character I’ve wanted to play for a very long time.”
He credited Levy as the only director he wanted for the project, and the two have said the film grew out of conversations during downtime on the set of their upcoming collaboration, Star Wars: Starfighter, out May 28, 2027.
Starfighter writer Jonathan Tropper has also been brought on to pen the Ghost Rider screenplay, with a 2027 shoot planned.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige remained coy at Comic-Con about which version of Ghost Rider Gosling will play, telling ComicBook.com, “I am going to let Ryan reveal what he wants to reveal, when he wants to reveal it, and what he wanted to reveal today is: he’s playing Ghost Rider. He’s a huge fan of the comics.”
Many fans have speculated he’ll take on the Johnny Blaze incarnation of the character, though that hasn’t been confirmed.
Gosling will become only the second actor to bring the Spirit of Vengeance to film, following Nicolas Cage’s two outings in Sony’s earlier Ghost Rider movies, the character was also portrayed by Gabriel Luna in a version for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., though a planned Hulu spinoff series featuring Luna was scrapped in 2019.
