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Hulu Gives Ghost Rider TV Show A No-Go

Marvel‘s planned Ghost Rider series, which was slated to stream on Hulu, is no longer happening.

Earlier this year, Marvel announced plans to explore a new corner of the MCU on Hulu with new TV shows headlined by Ghost Rider and Helstrom. Unfortunately, those plans seem to have hit a major speedbump. Deadline is now reporting that Hulu has decided not to move forward with the Ghost Rider series. The latter remains on track, but this one reportedly fell apart after the two sides “reached a creative impasse which could not be resolved.” As a result, the streaming giant decided to put the brakes on the project.

In May, Hulu announced Marvel’s Ghost Rider and Marvel’s Helstrom would join Marvel’s Runaways and a planned adult-oriented animated slate featuring Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K, Marvel’s Hit-Monkey, Marvel’s Tigra & Dazzler Show and Marvel’s Howard The Duck on Hulu.

Ghost Rider would have seen Gabriel Luna reprise his role as Robbie Reyes from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., although this new incarnation would exist in a separate continuity. He was described by Hulu as “a quintessential antihero, consumed by hellfire and supernaturally bound to a demon.” Living on the Texas/Mexico border, Robbie would bring vengeance for the innocents he encounters as Ghost Rider, “but struggles to control the power he wields.”

The fourth season of AoS introduced Robbie as the successor to Johnny Blaze, the original Ghost Rider. Apparently, the spinoff’s producers, led by showrunner Ingrid Escajeda, reached a “creative impasse” with Hulu. With this, the show is currently dead. Deadline’s report suggests there’s a chance that it could be shopped around elsewhere. However, it’s also hard to imagine a macabre series like Ghost Rider finding a home on any of Marvel’s other go-to platforms like Freeform or Disney+.

Just last month, Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb spoke enthusiastically about Marvels’ future in television. Ghost Rider and Helstrom were to be the first in what Loeb referred to as Marvel’s “Adventure Into Fear,” indicating that other horror-themed shows were in the works as well.

Marvel regained the rights to Ghost Rider in 2013, after Columbia Pictures failed to move into development a sequel to Nicolas Cage‘s 2012 film Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

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