Ghost Rider is coming to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the response has been mixed. Fan favorites like Johnny Blaze or Danny Ketch are not the host of the Spirit of Vengeance in the 4th season, but new Ghost Rider Robbie Reyes (played by Gabriel Luna) is. Jeph Loeb offered information as to why they chose Robbie Reyes as Ghost Rider for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
“It’s incredibly exciting, and I know a lot of people were speculating on it. Not only is it exciting to be able to tell people that it’s Robbie Reyes, but that we have this unbelievably cool car, that 1969 black Charger that’s still on the floor of the convention, and then on top of that that we’ve just announced that Gabriel Luna, who is an extremely talented young actor who people may know from Matador on El Rey. It’s going to be a hell of a season.”
When discussing the decision to pick Robbie Reyes instead of Johnny Blaze Loeb also said:
“We picked Robbie, actually, because our show, at the end of the day, is always about family. The fact that Robbie’s relationship with Gabe [Robbie’s developmentally disabled brother] is so much a part of his character, and the world of east LA, which is not a place that we’ve ever gone to in the Marvel universe, was just a really exciting way.”
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 premieres September 20, 2016 on the ABC network.
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