Ryan Gosling's Ghost Rider Gets a 2028 Release Date as Disney Loads Up Its Marvel Calendar
Disney has slotted Ryan Gosling's Ghost Rider for 28 July 2028, making it the third Marvel film the studio has dated for that year, according to Variety.
The date comes on the heels of Disney's D23 fan event, held the preceding weekend, where the studio updated its wide-release calendar across live-action, animation and superhero titles. Ghost Rider itself was first announced in July at San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H panel, where Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed Gosling would join the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the title role (Marvel.com).
Gosling steps into a character last played on screen by Nicolas Cage, who starred in two Sony Ghost Rider films. This version lives under the Marvel Studios banner, which means the character now sits inside the same connected universe as Avengers and Black Panther. Shawn Levy directs, with a screenplay by Jonathan Tropper, whose credits include the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter.
Ghost Rider is not the only Marvel title Disney pinned down. An untitled X-Men film is set for 5 May 2028, and Black Panther 3 — with Ryan Coogler back in the director's chair — lands on 15 December 2028. A further untitled Marvel movie shifted to 9 November 2029, previously listed only as an untitled Disney release.
The calendar shuffle reached well beyond Marvel. Pixar's Ghost Market takes 10 March 2028, while Tangled arrives on 31 March 2028. The animated film Clay is set for 22 November 2028, and Coco 2 lands on 21 November 2029.
One title moved closer, not farther out. Monitor, a Searchlight horror film about a demonic entity that stalks message-board moderators, shifted its release up from 30 April 2027 to 16 April. Matt Black and Ryan Polly direct.
What makes the Ghost Rider date notable is the company it keeps. Three Marvel films in a single year is a heavy theatrical commitment, spread across the early-summer, late-summer and holiday corridors — the windows studios prize most. Gosling's involvement gives the film a marquee name that Marvel can build a campaign around nearly two years out, and the July slot places Ghost Rider squarely in the season where the studio has historically launched some of its biggest titles.
For fans, the 2028 calendar now offers a Marvel film roughly every four months from May through December, bookended by X-Men in spring and Black Panther in the holiday stretch, with Gosling's flame-headed antihero arriving in between.
