Ghost Rider 2 - Cage shares his thoughts

The first Ghost Rider film was pretty bad. I so wanted it to be good as I always loved the comic. Yet the film was just a mess of bad effects, poor story and wonky acting.

With regards to Ghost Rider 2 Sony and Nicolas Cage were still looking for a writer and director to helm the sequel.

Now the actor told MTV News that he’s looking less toward “sequel” and more toward “reboot” for the next film.

“I would like to do a reconceive,” Cage told MTV News. “I would like to go in a whole other direction, and I think that’s what they’re talking about.”

According to Cage, he’s still leaning toward a Ghost Rider movie that brings the skull-faced Marvel Comics hero to Europe for a team-up with Catholic Church.

“I would make it much less of a Western and more of an international story,” said Cage of the direction he’d take the character for the next film.

They should definitely try and use some of the storylines from recent issues of the comic as they have been superb.

What do you want to see in a Ghost Rider sequel? Should Cage still be in it? How could they make it better? Should it be a sequel or a reboot?


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UPDATED: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - Trailer for Werner Herzog's new film starring Cage

More Cage action. Watch him shout, point and look confused.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is the new Werner Herzog film that continues from Harvey Keitel's version. Apparantly it is not a remake.

Judging by this trailer they haven't really any idea what they wanted to do with the film. All in all it looks a bit of a mess.

It stars Nic Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes and, wait for it, Xzibit.

Remember, Nic Cage and Eva Mendes last starred together in Ghost Rider.

Cage's best acting role before this was posted recently (you have to watch it), but this may take first place.

Update: The video should now work again

What did you think of that? Will The Sorcerer's Apprentice or Kick-Ass finally lift the bad film curse that Nic Cage seems to currently be under?

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Ghost Rider sequel saddles up

Bloody Disgusting have the news that Columbia Pictures is officially looking for writers to pen the sequel to Ghost Rider and that Nicolas Cage is attached and signed on to return.

Quite surprising though as the first film sucked big time. Such a shame as the comic book was great (I was from the Danny Ketch era) and the new series is getting great reviews.

Hopefully they'll learn from the mistakes made on the first one and it won't seem so studio bound. Would be great if Marvel Studios had it so they could mix it up with Iron Man, Hulk and the Avengers.

What story arc from the Ghost Rider comics would you like to see in the sequel?

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Shot from Ghost Rider used in The International trailer

This from /film - The same exact shot from Ghost Rider, was used in the new trailer for The International. Both films are produced by Columbia Pictures / Sony, so they obviously own the rights to the footage. In the Ghost Rider clip, which can be seen here, the car explodes as Ghost Rider rides by the car on his bike. In the International trailer, the Ghost Rider CG is absent, and the clip is shown right after someone enters something into an ATM machine.

First Showing also think some footage is from Black Hawk Down - Tom Tykwer, who directed The International, is a European filmmaker. He's got a lot of style in his films and I bet this really doesn't have as much explosive action as the studio wants. So to beef up the marketing and capture the attention of the Michael Bay-hungry audiences of America, they threw in an exploding car and some extra helicopters. Yep, that's how our society works. From the trailer for The International, the exploding car can be found at 0:22, while the helicopters (that I think are from Black Hawk Down) are at 0:51.

The top image is the one from Ghost Rider, the one below is from The International.

The International stars Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. An Interpol agent (Owen) attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring. Oh and it also stars Remy Auberjonois who is the son of Rene Auberjonois who was Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine!

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Cage talks Ghost Rider 2

In a conference call this week to promote the thriller "Bangkok Dangerous", actor Nicolas Cage revealed that he and Marvel Studios have already been talking about a potential sequel to the critically maligned yet internationally profitable "Ghost Rider" movie.

Cage tells Dark Horizons that he had a meeting with the studio about the project three months ago and they talked about a whole different setting for the character. The general idea was to take the character to Europe where he will work with the Catholic Church, deal with supernatural stuff on the continent and figureout a "connection working with different religious figures". The film's main antagonist has yet to be decided.

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