Marvel Studios has slotted Ghost Rider for July 28, 2028, with Ryan Gosling starring and Shawn Levy directing. The date places the film inside a busier 2028 schedule, and that shift matters because Marvel is moving back to three releases in a year after a leaner stretch following 2025.
Ryan Gosling and Shawn Levy
Ryan Gosling gives Ghost Rider a recognizable lead, while Shawn Levy gives Marvel Studios another named director to anchor the project. That pairing is the clearest sign this is not being handled as a placeholder date; it is being treated as a real tentpole on the calendar, with a star-director combination attached early.
Marvel and Disney have been laying out a broader release pattern for 2028, and Ghost Rider now sits between a new X-Men film on May 5, 2028, and Black Panther III on December 15, 2028. The spacing makes 2028 the first year since 2025 in which Marvel will release three movies, after Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, and Fantastic Four filled that year.
2028 before the reset
2028 is not just fuller; it is the first time Marvel has returned to a three-film year since 2025, when the company released Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, and Fantastic Four. That comparison gives Ghost Rider a business context: Marvel is signaling a more active slate before the company reaches the larger reset point tied to Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.
Kit Connor as Cyclops and Samara Weaving as Emma Frost show how the X-Men line is already being assembled around the same stretch of dates. Ghost Rider benefits from that calendar because it is not arriving in isolation; it is one of the titles making 2028 feel like a rebuilt run rather than a single one-off release.
Marvel’s 2029 dates
Marvel also added a movie for November 9, 2029, after previously dating untitled titles for May 4, 2029, and July 13, 2029. Pixar’s Ghost Market is set for March 10, 2028, The Tangled remake for March 31, 2028, Clay for November 22, 2028, and Coco 2 for November 21, 2029, so Disney’s wider calendar is filling in around Marvel’s return to volume.
What Ghost Rider will do inside that larger plan is still the open issue. For now, the meaningful takeaway is simpler: Marvel Studios has put Ryan Gosling and Shawn Levy on a date, and July 28, 2028 is far enough out to suggest this is becoming one of the studio’s key 2028 pillars rather than a title held back for later reshuffling.
