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Warner Bros. Release Shifts Part 2: ‘Final Destination 5’ and More!
Warner Bros. Pictures is planning a massive 2011, especially for us genre fans. Earlier today they announced January release dates for The Rite and Unknown White Male, now three more are coming later that year. On April 22, Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood (formerly The Girl With the Red Riding Hood) adaptation starring Amanda Seyfried arrives in theaters, with Death attacking a new group of teens in Final Destination 5 on August 26. The Todd Lincoln directed ghost story The Apparition haunts theaters on September 9 with Steven Soderbergh’s star heavy (Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Gwyneth Paltrow) viral thriller Contagion (now in 3-D) hitting theaters on October 21. I’d expect Contagion to shift dates when Lionsgate sticks a Saw or Paramount continues Paranormal Activity near that date.
Ryan Gosling (Project Hail Mary) has made no secret of the fact that he’d love to play Ghost Rider in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, and it’s now officially happening.
Announced by Marvel out of San Diego Comic-Con tonight, Ryan Gosling will play the iconic Marvel character in a Ghost Rider movie being directed by Shawn Levy!
Expect Ryan Gosling to play Ghost Rider on the big screen in 2028.
Johnny Blaze is of course the most iconic and well-known Ghost Rider, selling his soul to Satan and becoming a supernatural badass. Nicolas Cage brought Blaze to life on screen in both 2007’s Ghost Rider and 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, while Gabriel Luna more recently played the Robbie Reyes version of Ghost Rider in the series “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
Luna was set to star in his own Ghost Rider spinoff series in the wake of that small screen appearance, but that Hulu project ended up being squashed before it ever had a chance.
Fans have been waiting for Ghost Rider to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe for many years now, with Ryan Gosling making it clear that he’d love to bring the character back to life.
That Hollywood dream is coming true. Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
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