Ghost Rider just went off the track and crashed in a big ball of flame.
Deadline has revealed that Hulu has decided to not more forward with their live-action series Ghost Rider, based on the Robbie Reyes version of the supernatural Marvel Comics character.
According to the article, "Hulu and the Ghost Rider team had reached a creative impasse which could not be resolved, leading to the streamer’s decision not to move forward with the series." It remains unclear whether the series will be shopped elsewhere.
Previously announced back in May, Marvel’s Ghost Rider centers on Robbie Reyes, the quintessential antihero, who lives on the Texas/Mexico border, consumed by hellfire and supernaturally bound to a demon. When he unleashes the Rider, Robbie brings vengeance for the innocents he encounters, but struggles controlling the power he wields.
Marvel’s Ghost Rider was going to star Gabriel Luna, reprising his role as Ghost Rider/Robbie Reyes on ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. from 2016-17. The series was executive produced by Ingrid Escajeda, serving as showrunner, Paul Zbyszewski and Marvel Television’s Jeph Loeb.
Created in 2014 by Felipe Smith and Tradd Moore, the Robbie Reyes version of Ghost Rider first appeared All-New Ghost Rider #1 as a high-school student working as a mechanic at an auto body shop, who lives with his developmentally disabled brother Gabe and seeks to get away from the dangerous, gang-riddled streets of East Los Angeles. To that end, he enters a street race, hoping to use the prize money to move themselves away. He is gunned down by mercenaries trying to retrieve pills that caused the transformation of Calvin Zabo into the supervillain Mr. Hyde, which had been left in the trunk of the 1969 Dodge Charger he "borrowed" from the auto body shop for the race. He is revived as Ghost Rider, a demonic being with a flaming, helmet-like head. He drives off in the car, which also blazes with flame.
Marvel's Helstrom, based on the Marvel character Daimon Hellstrom, was also announced in May, but remains on track for its premiere in 2020 on Hulu.
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