Marvel Studios has formally added a 3rd Marvel Cinematic Universe film to its 2028 launch calendar. Ghost Rider, starring Ryan Gosling, will open in theaters on July 28, 2028.
Ghost Rider is wedged between two different main Marvel tentpole releases. The MCU’s reboot of X-Males will open in Could 2028, and Black Panther III will observe in December 2028.
Ghost Rider Joins the MCU in 2028
Marvel Studios introduced the Ghost Rider film, with Gosling within the lead function, eventually week’s D23 occasion. Gosling had lengthy been rumored and a preferred fan favourite for the function of Marvel’s motorcycle-riding Spirit of Vengeance.
Shawn Levy, who beforehand helmed Deadpool & Wolverine, is directing Ghost Rider. The film is being written by Jonathan Tropper, who’s re-teaming with each Levy and Gosling after writing Star Wars: Starfighter, which will debut in 2027.
The brand new Ghost Rider film is a reboot. Nicolas Cage previously played the character in two movies: 2007’s Ghost Rider and 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Gabriel Luna additionally performed a special model of Ghost Rider, the car-driving Robbie Reyes, within the fourth season of Marvel’s Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D., the MCU canonicity of which stays nebulous.
The MCU Goes Large in 2028
That Marvel Studios feels assured sufficient to place out three motion pictures once more isn’t any small factor, particularly since years of that many releases have yielded disappointing outcomes prior to now. In 2025, Marvel releases Captain America: Courageous New World, Thunderbolts*, and The Improbable 4: First Steps. The primary of these struggled with critics and disenchanted on the field workplace. The opposite two carried out respectably, however have been hardly runaway successes.
In 2024, Marvel launched a single MCU film, Deadpool & Wolverine, to nice success. That was thought-about a course correction after years of releasing three motion pictures had begun to yield diminishing returns, with a sense of MCU burnout spreading among fans already bored with The Multiverse Saga’s unyielding metanarrative and never connecting with Marvel’s newest crop of latest heroes the way in which that they had linked with those that would discovered the Avengers.
It was the 12 months prior, 2023, that served as a flashpoint, with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels incomes poor critiques and dismal field workplace grosses. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 carried out higher. Nonetheless, enthusiasm for that film’s success was considerably dampened by the information that it was director James Gunn’s MCU exit, as he had been employed to supervise DC Studios, and that it might be the conclusion of the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy.
That could be why Marvel Studios is bringing three hypothetical huge weapons out in 2028. With Avengers: Secret Wars the one MCU film slated for 2027, and coming a full 12 months after Avengers: Doomsday in 2026, Marvel followers could also be hungry for the MCU’s new take on the X-Men and Ghost Rider, in addition to the introduction of a new Black Panther in Black Panther III.
Ghost Rider opens in theaters on July 28, 2028.
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July 28, 2028
- Writers
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Jonathan Tropper
- Producers
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Kevin Feige
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Ryan Gosling
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