2007’s Ghost Rider opened to $45 million (clinching the coveted “President’s Day 4-Day Holiday Weekend” #1 record), and ended up grossing just north of $115 million total in the states- this is to say that while it didn’t knock anyone’s dick off, the franchise showed promise. There has been slow movement on a sequel -currently subtitled Spirit of Vengeance– and Frosty over at Collider recently caught up with producer Mike De Luca and found out a number of details about the sequel.
David Goyer is behind the script on this one (based on a draft he wrote in 2001) though he is, get this… “incorporating kind of an original idea of Nic’s.”
The interview reveals even more information about the sequel- Mark Steven Johnson and Eva Mendes will both be absent this time around, the action will take the Rider to Europe, 3D may happen*, and Goyer may end up behind the camera if his schedule serves.
De Luca mentions their intentions to do this one cheaper than the original, and that makes sense. The first film made just enough that if they can drop the budget some and keep the grosses level, Nic Cage can keep his personal playground going.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance could make it into theaters in 2011, if they manage to roll on it this year.
Check out the original interview for more small details.
*I need to create a keyboard macro for this phrase.
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s'alright…. they can keep this on the shelf
The image above just reminded me of what shit the final theatrical poster turned out to be. There were giant Nic Cage and Eva Mendes faces taking up the entire top half, and then a tiny lil Ghost Rider in the middle of the bottom half that was just standing there or something. The movie was successful, good for them, but all the poster needed to make the movie look more exciting was a money shot of Ghost Rider just tearin' ass on a bike.
I hope we get it. I loved the simple western style of the first film and wish they kept the whole movie as a homage to westerns instead of some kind of terminator meets batman thing.
If Sony is serious about sequelizing one of the worst goddamn comic films of the last 20 years, they need to get Warren Ellis on this fucking thing and do it right. I want real dialogue (i.e. vulgarity), gore, really fucked up glimpses of hell and a hard-r rating. I swear to god if Cage eats jelly beans out of a fucking martini glass again, executives will burn.
David Goyer is such a hack. That guys up there with Orci and Kurtzman on the list of least talented yet highest paid people in hollywood.
I agree with Gene Jacket, if Warren Ellis's name was associated with this movie I'd watch it even though I can't be bothered to watch the first one because it looks so awful.
David Goyer sucks eighteen different kinds of ass.
"I want real dialogue (i.e. vulgarity), gore, really fucked up glimpses of hell and a hard-r rating." – then you're a fucking idiot. I suppose you think GI Joe would be improved by cumshots and graphic mutilation.
"I suppose you think GI Joe would be improved by cumshots and graphic mutilation."
– That couldn't make it worse.
Any sort of R rating would ruin their hopes of another sequel because ticket sales would drop. I guess we can all cross our fingers and hope for more than one "fuck" in the movie…
Dead on Torgo10…I don't know why David Goyer gets such credit for thingslike Blade/Dark Knight (his writing is mediocre). Those films are just well-directed…PERIOD! He's the most over-hyped writer in HWood.
The first was one of the worst movies I've ever paid money for. It was almost worth it for Cage's transformation scene though….love seeing that guy overact dramatically. But the rest of the film was nothing more than a 2 hour PS2 video game in the form of a movie. Just pure fucking shit. I feel sorry for anyone anticipating this inevitable shitbrick.
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