Ghost Rider 2 will take “a different trajectory”
There was a time when it seemed that a Ghost Rider sequel wasn’t going to happen. Columbia Pictures wanted to go into production right away to keep the rights, and Nicholas Cage had to choose whether or not he would return. The actor ultimately chose to return as Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider, and the film is already in pre-production. Nothing has been heard on the film since, but Mtv News sat down and talked to Cage about the film.
Cage is “very excited” about working with Crank directors, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The actor states that he thinks the two “originals, and they know how to make a movie look great, and they know how to use a camera.” The duo apparently have “a very fresh take on the character.” The sequel is set to deviate from the original film, and will be “a different trajectory.” Filming is expected to begin in November.
Nicholas Cage will next be seen in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice opening on July 14, 2010.
Oh no. Not a recon already!
I wonder what this might mean for the Ghost Rider Film, as I hear the next one is supposed to be darker. I just hope they know what they’re doing with that, as there are so many ways this can go so very well and yet go so very wrong, as the original storyline in the comicbook did get darker in the ’90s and that was when it was at it’s most popular, but in the past decade newer writers did not appear to understand the appeal the character had for a wider number of fans and may have dropped the ball with this. I still don’t know if the later writers like Jason Aaron knew what they were doing and I feel like a passenger on an airplane that just went through some turbelance. I don’t yet know if all that shaking around was because of bad pilots, or good ones. It would seem only time will tell if there was a bigger picture in mind for the comicbook storyline of the last decade, because if dropping part of the story there turns out to be the only way to keep the original comicbook storyline going then I would vote to keep everything but this last decade. I don’t think that should be necessary though, provided there was a bigger story in mind in the first place, let alone any in particular.
This is why I’ve been most glad to have Nicolas Cage playing the Ghost Rider. He has been a fan of the character as long as I have and I feel that if he remains in the role in whatever capacity it is used he will fight to at least keep the character consistant in that role.
I was also glad to hear when the rating for the first film was less then an R. because that told me they had confidence in their script. Themes that were only alluded to in the comicbook they came right out and brought into the film and I think that may have been in part due to Cage’s influence. I hope they don’t drop those themes and the decision to make the next film darker was a planned one and not just a response to those who were bitter that the film wasn’t more like the comicbook was in the last decade.
Face it, making the film word for word like the comicbook probably won’t work, but neither will throwing away the themes that worked best. The comicbook movie adaptations in general for the last 2 decades worked much better than previous ones and I think it was because they kept the basic storylines intact but streamlined. A good tale tends to get better with the retelling and they have a chance to improve the orginal Ghost Rider tale by basically telling it more concisely like they did with Spider-man
I think he majority of those who watched the film didn’t read the comicbook and probably still don’t, for which I can’t blame them. Powerful though the writing was, it felt like a letdown to me as a long-time fan.
Jon Reply:
July 14th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
You said it all. Short answer: make it R