'Heated Rivalry's Connor Storrie Officially Eyes Major MCU Role

It’s been quite the year for Connor Storrie, who has gone from, well, the equivalent of rags to riches in about the space of five minutes thanks to the phenomenal success of Heated Rivalry, which propelled him into the center of a pop culture phenomenon, with an Emmy nomination, major brand deals, and a growing list of projects to show for it. But a massive superhero movie with a guy on a motorbike with a flaming skull probably wasn’t on his to-do list. Until now.

Storrie is in talks to join Ryan Gosling in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Ghost Rider movie, potentially playing the villain opposite Gosling’s Johnny Blaze. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor is negotiating to appear in the superhero blockbuster, which will be directed by Shawn Levy and is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters on July 28, 2028. The identity of Storrie’s potential character remains under wraps.

The movie sees Gosling play Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle stunt performer who — bear with us — makes a deal with the devil and becomes bonded with a demonic entity. The kind of normal thing you’d do on any given day, just hanging out before being busy transforming into the flaming-skulled Spirit of Vengeance. The character was previously brought to the big screen by Nicolas Cage in two movies, although Marvel’s latest incarnation will bring the character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Four powers, and four completely different kinds of person behind them.
Here is what you would wake up with, what it would cost you, and why the MCU keeps handing it to
somebody exactly like you.

You get the power that is really about taking the hit so that
nobody else has to. Strength in the MCU always lands on people who were already carrying too
much, which is exactly why it suits you.

• Your instinct is to put yourself between the problem and the people, and you do it
  before anybody has thought to ask.
• Bruce Banner is the most interesting version of this because his story was never about
  lifting things, it was about control.
• The catch with strength is that people stop checking whether you are alright, since you
  have made a habit of looking like you always are.
• You would be the one everybody calls at two in the morning, and you would answer every
  single time.

You get the power that never switches off. Spider-sense is a gift
and a nervous system on permanent alert, and the people who get it in these films are always
the ones who were already worrying about everybody.

• You read a situation faster than you can explain it, and you are usually right in a way
  you cannot show your working for.
• Peter Parker is the template because he takes on more than he can hold and then
  apologises for not holding it well enough.
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrived in July 2026 and put him back to being local, broke
  and permanently on call.
• The cost here is real, since a power that warns you about everything also means you are
  never quite off duty.

You get the quietest power in the building, and quietly the most
useful. Invisibility comes with force fields for a reason, because the people who prefer not
to be seen are usually the ones holding a shield around everybody else.

• You notice everything, largely because you spend more time observing a room than
  performing in it.
• Sue Storm is the strongest member of her team and the least interested in anybody saying
  so, which is very much your energy.
• The Fantastic Four: First Steps finally gave the family a proper MCU home in 2025 and
  made her the centre of it.
• Your risk is that being unseen becomes a habit rather than a choice, and the people who
  love you would like a look in.

You get the biggest and least comfortable power on the list, the
one that runs directly on feeling. Chaos magic is not really a superpower in the MCU so much
as an emotional state with consequences attached.

• You feel things at a volume other people do not, and you have spent years managing that
  rather than being managed by it.
• Wanda is the best written character Marvel has, precisely because her power and her
  grief turned out to be the same thing.
• WandaVision remains the high point of Marvel television, and it works because the
  spectacle is only ever a symptom.
• The warning attached to this one is simple. A power that answers to how you feel is only
  ever as steady as you are.

Who Will Connor Storrie Play in ‘Ghost Rider’?

While Marvel is keeping Storrie’s potential role secret, the character has no shortage of supernatural enemies who could make life miserable for Johnny Blaze. Among the most recognizable is Mephisto, the demonic villain who played a major role in the earlier Ghost Rider films and was more recently portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen in Ironheart. Blackheart, Mephisto’s son, is another familiar antagonist, although there’s currently no indication that Storrie will play either character.

The film will also reunite Gosling with Levy following their collaboration on Star Wars: Starfighter, with Jonathan Tropper returning to write the screenplay. Production is expected to begin in New York in 2027, with Dune: Part Three cinematographer Linus Sandgren attached to shoot the movie on film.

Marvel Studios’ Ghost Rider is scheduled to arrive in theaters on July 28, 2028.

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