Disney has officially dated Ryan Gosling’s “Ghost Rider” for July 28, 2028, filling a release slot the studio had been holding on the industry calendar and confirming the film as the third Marvel Studios title set for that year. The announcement came as part of a broader wave of scheduling updates the company issued following D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event over the weekend.
The July slot places “Ghost Rider” in a window that has become Marvel’s preferred late-summer launchpad, following “Deadpool & Wolverine,” “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” and “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” into the same late-July frame. Shawn Levy directs the film from a script by Jonathan Tropper, who also wrote “Star Wars: Starfighter.”
Gosling steps into the role of the Spirit of Vengeance, previously played by Nicolas Cage in two films produced outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel has not confirmed which iteration of the character Gosling will portray, though studio chief Kevin Feige has said the actor pitched his own take rooted in specific comic runs and has been given latitude to shape the project.
“Ghost Rider” joins an untitled X-Men film dated for May 5, 2028, and “Black Panther 3,” set for December 15, 2028, giving Marvel three theatrical releases in a single year for the first time in several cycles. Disney also used the update to assign concrete titles and dates to several previously unnamed projects, including Pixar’s “Ghost Market” on March 10, 2028, a live-action “Tangled” remake on March 31, 2028, and an original animated film called “Clay” arriving that November. A further untitled Marvel project now holds a November 9, 2029, date, alongside “Coco 2” later that month.
The scheduling shift also touched 2027, with Searchlight’s horror thriller “Monitor” moving up two weeks to April 16. Disney’s 2028 slate arrives as the studio looks to sustain a three-Marvel-movie pace following the record-breaking box office run of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” earlier this year.
