Rumors abound that Ryan Gosling has been cast as Marvels next Big Bad Doctor Doom.





According to the online rumor mill La La Lands Ryan Gosling has been cast the next Big Bad of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and that the villain will be Doctor Doom. Thats the word from Cosmic Book News who cites a number of different sources who have either just been theorizing about the casting or straight-up claiming it’s already in the bag. In the meantime Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has already publicly expressed interest in  finding a place for the Gray Man star in the MCU.


That Gosling has been cast as Doctor Doom, or is even being considered for the role is still very much unconfirmed. In their report CBN mentioned insider Jeff Sneider who was merely theorizing about a Gosling Doom match up and a Den of Nerds tweet from earlier this week which reads If you do not want Ryan Gosling as Doctor Doom you should let Feige know ASAP.” While on one hand the notion of Doom becoming Marvels next big villain makes sense, Gosling would seem like a strange choice for the role.


For one Doom is typically portrayed as an animated, overly verbose villain regularly belting out dark declarations proclaiming his unquestionable superiority to everyone and everything around him, and often referring to himself in the third person as he does so. Imagining Ryan Gosling in a role like that is difficult. Whenever the actor plays bad guys  or anything close to a bad guy  its usually with a more quiet and reserved kind of menace.


Then of course theres the reality that Ryan Goslings good looks are one of his selling points and unless Kevin Feige and co. plan to stray insanely far from the source material playing Doctor Doom would mean hiding his face behind a metallic mask. However this might go along with one of the ideas of Dooms co creator the late Jack Kirby who said he saw Doom as a man who had only a very minor scar on his face but whose vanity transformed that scar into something monstrous in his own mind.