For his part of the deal, Blaze becomes Mephistopheles’s bounty hunter, the Ghost Rider – a metal cover come to life, with a flaming skull for a head and an imposing motorcycle with burning tires. Like everyone who prides themselves on the art of the deal, the devil double-crosses Blaze, removing his father’s cancer but setting the man up to be killed in an accident the next day. Very silly, very hammy, and very fun.īoth Ghost Rider films star Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze, a stuntman in the mold of Evil Knievel, who cures his cancer-stricken father by making a deal with the devil Mephistopheles ( Henry Fonda in the first film). But Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is very good. There’s lots of enjoyable stuff in there, as I’ll talk about in a minute, poking through some disinterested performances and inept direction. ![]() But now that I’ve watched them, I can safely say this : the Ghost Rider movies are good. I added them to my October spooky season watch list as a matter of obligation, using the excuse of a marathon to do some necessary gap-filling. I knew about them and had an affection for the character, but I accepted the general consensus that they were disappointing misfires, rightly overshadowed by the launch of the MCU and Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy.īut here’s the thing: I had never actually seen either of the movies. What's left after adrenal-gland poisoning and stolen hearts? We're voting for full body transplant.Like most superhero fans, I rarely thought about the Ghost Rider movies over the years. It’s kind of like that movie has to get willed into existence at some point, by enough people who want to see it." But, says Taylor, "Don't think we aren't talking about it. It was almost going to happen but the schedule wasn’t right and the money wasn’t right. Jason Statham lamented last year that the poor box office of Crank 2 made a threequel unlikely. "Shooting action and car crashes and all that stuff is boring," says Taylor, "but shooting a Nic Cage performance is a total adrenaline rush."Īnd talk of adrenaline leads neatly to N/T's signature franchise Crank. That enhanced focus on the demon Zarathos has involved a whole different approach to playing the character for returning star Nicolas Cage, who's now playing Blaze and the Ghost Rider, instead of leaving the Flaming Skull up to the FX guys and the stuntmen. That mythology never got delved into in the first movie, anyway, we really get into that." ![]() The whole mythology behind the Ghost Rider that existed in the comic books never really made sense to me, so we sort of had to re-engineer the entire back-story into something new. We’re not disowning the first movie but this Ghost Rider is an evolved form of the previous Ghost Rider. We basically completely re-envisioned the whole start of the character. "We’re just looking at it as an evolution," explains Taylor. Is it a reboot or a sequel? Like The Incredible Hulk (and, by the sound of things, the next Daredevil movie) it seems to be kind of both. His statements might just put to rest any fears you have following the first instalment. It's been a while since we had any updates on Johnny Blaze's return to the big screen, but Brian Taylor (one-half of binary Crank directing entity Neveldine/Taylor) has shared a few thoughts on Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance with Movieline.
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