00:00One of the big news items out of this past weekend's San Diego Comic-Con,
00:05actor Ryan Gosling has been chosen to play Marvel comic book superhero Ghost Rider
00:12in an MCU movie due out in 2028.
00:17Direction will be by Deadpool and Wolverine's Sean Levy.
00:20Script by Jonathan Tropper.
00:22These two just worked with Gosling on Star Wars Starfighter, expected out in 2027.
00:31I was thinking about some past movies of where there might be a clue to this news.
00:38Earlier this year, I did some other videos on 1987 sci-fi action film The Running Man.
00:45Even before this announcement, I could definitely see how this Stephen King story reflects something about the near present.
00:57Yeah, The Running Man was remade and released in late 2025.
01:02Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in the 87 version along with Richard Dawson,
01:08Yafet Cotto, and Maria Conchita Alonso.
01:11I think Alonso, a definitely predictive to Ghost Rider.
01:16She co-starred with actor Nicolas Cage in the 89 comedy Vampire's Kiss.
01:22Cage later played Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider in the 2007 film and the sequel Spirit of Vengeance in 2011.
01:32Yafet Cotto, I think, also can be linked to Cage in Ghost Rider.
01:37It's through his role in the James Bond movie, Live and Let Die, 1973.
01:43It starred Roger Moore and Jane Seymour.
01:46Now, Cage co-starred in 1996 action thriller The Rock with James Bond actor Sean Connery.
01:55A big clue to Ghost Rider in The Running Man 87, I think, is the character Buzzsaw, played by Gus
02:06Rethwish.
02:07He is one of the gratitorial stalkers in a dystopian future reality game show,
02:15which resembles something out of the Roman Coliseum, adored by the audience.
02:20His job is to hunt Schwarzenegger and Alonso's characters in a dilapidated urban environs.
02:29Buzzsaw makes his entrance on a motorcycle.
02:33He wields a chainsaw.
02:35I thought for sure that there must be an actor in the 2025 Running Man who works with Ryan Gosling.
02:45Michael Cera did so.
02:47He played Alan in Barbie in 2023 with Margot Robbie.
02:54Gosling was keen in this.
02:56Will Ferrell, also in this cast.
