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Ghost Rider 2 takes place 8 years on. Isn’t a reboot.

Liam — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:06:08 +0000

In September David Goyer was brought on-board to tone down his 9 year old R-rated Ghost Rider script and set it up as a sequel to 2007’s Ghost Rider cheesefest. He recently spoke to MTV and revealed some more details on Ghost Rider 2, saying it will be “what Casino Royale was to the Bond movies”.

“It’s not exactly a reboot,” said Goyer, who’s currently hard at work on his “FlashForward” television series. “I hate to say it’s more realistic, because he’s got a flaming skull for a head, but it’s a bit more stripped down and darker. It’s definitely changing tone. What ‘Casino Royale’ was to the Bond movies, hopefully this will be to ‘Ghost Rider.’ This story picks up eight years after the first film,” said Goyer. “You don’t have to have seen the first film. It doesn’t contradict anything that happened in the first film, but we’re pretending that our audience hasn’t seen the first film. It’s as if you took that same character where things ended in the first film and then picked it up eight years later—he’s just in a much darker, existential place.”

Nicolas Cage will be back as the man with the flaming skull, and filming will take place next year.

David Goyer talks Ghost Rider 2

Liam — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:08:01 +0000

Last month it was reported that David Goyer had been brought on-board to create the story and supervise writers for Ghost Rider 2. Collider recently caught up with Goyer and he spoke a little about what his involvement was.

“I wrote a script for that about 9 years ago. Sony decided and the producers that they wanted to make that as the sequel script. In this case I’m coming on as a producer, and we’re basically just doing a polish. There’s not as much work involved.”

His script was apparently written for an R rating so he will now be working to cut out the violent and sexy stuff to make it PG-13 material. David Goyer co-wrote The Dark Knight which was pretty violent for a PG-13, so it shouldn’t be watered down too much.

David Goyer to oversee Ghost Rider 2 script

Liam — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:33:32 +0000

We haven’t heard anything solid on Ghost Rider 2 for a while, even though we knew Columbia were interested in making it. Now THR are reporting that David Goyer (The Dark Knight, Blade trilogy) is in early talks to create the story and supervise writers for a film.

Through a spokesperson, Goyer said he hadn’t signed on yet. But plans are already under way to base the sequel on a “Ghost Rider” script written years ago by Goyer, whose superhero work includes hit screen transfers of DC’s “Batman Begins” and Marvel’s “Blade” franchise. The original “Ghost Rider” was scripted by director Mark Steven Johnson.

When the first film was released in 2007 it got mostly negative reviews, but in the end it made around $230 million worldwide (not including DVD sales) so a sequel will probably give everyone involved a nice paycheck. People such as Nicolas Cage, who will be back as the fire skull man.

Ghost Rider 2 revving up

Liam — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:43:25 +0000

Despite not that many people seeing the first movie, Columbia Pictures are currently looking for screenwriters to get started on Ghost Rider 2.

From Bloody-Disgusting:

What we learned this evening is that Columbia Pictures is officially out to writers to pen the sequel and that Nicolas Cage is in fact attached and signed on to return.

It is unlikely that Eva Mendes will return. I don’t know whether that’s obvious or not because I didn’t see the first one, so she could have been killed off for all I know. Anyone interested in seeing a Ghost Rider 2?

Ghost Rider 2 Happening?

Liam — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:51:19 +0000

I’ll be honest. I didn’t see Ghost Rider. I think it was due to the bad reception it got which made it a no go area in my mind. The trailers looked good, the effects looked good and Eva Mendes looked good, but I didn’t end up going to see it. Therefore, this news falls into the ‘I don’t care but I’ll talk about it’ category. Nicolas Cage has spoke about the possibility of a sequel, telling SuperHero Hype

“All they have to do is call, and I would love to see that happen. That would be fun.”

He also spoke a little about the future of the National Treasure franchise, with the sequel, being released later this month.

“I was very happy to see that we went to London, England and Paris, France, but I’d like to see the movie go wider still. I’d like to go into Africa, Egypt, Asia, and keep going.”
“My hope is that Ben is recruited and he gets a dossier from these other countries about their history, and has to download it and learn it, and then try to go on these hunts on their behalf. That would be a lot of fun for me.”