Ghost Rider 2 [Archive]

Grouchy

05-06-2009, 04:08 PM

I don't see why.
Well, the only Ghost Rider comics I've read were by Todd McFarlane or Garth Ennis and they involved the Ghost exacting revenge on rapists, schoolyard drug dealers, stuff like that. Also, Hell stuff that was definitively on the adult side.

I just think Ghost Rider, like Punisher and Daredevil, is part of the staff of Marvel characters that represents the darker side of the company. The first movie was an average campy origin story, and it didn't work.

Sycophant

05-06-2009, 04:30 PM

The first one must have done okay at the box office? It was wretched.

Maybe a sequel could have potential if Mark Steven Johnson wasn't involved. But still, the first film made the idea of a return to this character very unappealing.

Fezzik

05-06-2009, 08:07 PM

I remember its opening weekend being respectable, but word of mouth killed it after that.

I'm confused as to why they'd even consider this.

Dukefrukem

05-08-2009, 12:32 AM

Ghost Rider is bad, but hilariously so. There's a scene involving Eva Mendes and one of those 8-Balls that has to be seen to be believed.

Holy shit... that was beyond stupid.

At least she looked better than she did when she was introduced. In fact, young Eva looked beta than Eva.

Dukefrukem

07-16-2009, 08:36 PM

wat?

Nicolas Cage talks a bit about the sequel to Ghost Rider, which he makes sound like it could be more of a reboot. ""I would like to reconceive [the movie]," he told MTV. "I would like to go in a whole other direction, and I think that's what they're talking about." He continues, "I would make it much less of a Western and more of an international story."

video here (http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/16764)

trotchky

07-21-2009, 05:05 AM

I think this movie will be terrible.

Dukefrukem

09-24-2009, 12:27 PM

David Goyer is in early talks to create the story and supervise writers for a film expected to once again star Nicolas Cage, who played the highly flammable cyclist in the 2007 original.

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.

http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/09/ghost-rider-latest-marvel-movie-to-rev.html

eternity

09-24-2009, 10:48 PM

If they get Goyer involved, this will be the worst movie ever. Ever.

chrisnu

09-24-2009, 11:23 PM

If they get Goyer involved, this will be the worst movie ever. Ever.
At least it might be entertaining. The original is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen, other than *points* YOU!

BuffaloWilder

09-27-2009, 05:12 AM

I remember being at Wizard World Texas back in 2006, and watching the six minutes of footage that was premiered there - never saw the rest, but man.

Dukefrukem

10-02-2009, 12:42 PM

Apparently, the script is 9 years old and would easily be a hard "R", so the studio is looking to edit it down to a measly PG-13. Yawn. Read on for the video. Nicolas Cage is confirmed to return in the role of Johnny Blaze a.k.a. Ghost Rider.

Goyer (http://www.collider.com/2009/10/01/exclusive-interview-david-goyer-talks-ghost-rider-2-and-magneto/)

Dukefrukem

11-04-2009, 06:43 PM

"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."

As for where that existential place might be, Goyer wouldn't delve into specifics—mainly because he doesn't have to.

"My script is out there on the Internet," he said. "We're not changing much from it. It'll be significantly the same script."

source (http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/11/04/exclusive-david-goyer-says-ghost-rider-2-isnt-a-reboot-takes-place-eight-years-later/)

that's a funny comparison there...

Dukefrukem

10-06-2010, 12:15 PM

Starting shooting in Novemeber in Romania and Turkey

Ciaran Hinds ("Rome," Harry Potter, also starring in Hammer Films' The Woman in Black) is in negotiations to rev up Columbia's Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Heat Vision adds that Italian actress-singer Violante Placido is also in talks to join the cast. The movie, featuring Nicolas Cage as the demonic biker anti-hero based on the Marvel comic, is a sequel to the 2007 movie and has Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor behind the cameras. The story sees Johnny Blaze, aka Ghost Rider (Cage), hiding out in remote Eastern Europe and struggling to repress his curse. Blaze is recruited by a sect to take on the devil (Hinds), who wants to take over his mortal son's body on the boy's birthday. Placido will play the boy's mother. Neveldine and Taylor wrote the script, working off a story by David Goyer.

number8

10-06-2010, 01:43 PM

I can see it working if it's more Crank and less Gamer, but I doubt that would be the case.

Dukefrukem

10-12-2010, 07:06 PM

Highlander star Christopher Lambert revealed on the official Highlander Facebook page tat he''s in talks to star alongside Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Columbia Pictures' sequel to the Marvel Comics adaptation that also stars Ciaran Hinds, Violante Placido, Idris Elba and Johnny Whitworth. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Gamer, Crank) are currently in pre-production with a February 17, 2012 release slated. The story sees Johnny Blaze, aka Ghost Rider (Cage), hiding out in remote Eastern Europe and struggling to repress his curse. Blaze is recruited by a sect to take on the devil (Hinds), who wants to take over his mortal son's body on the boy's birthday.

That release obviously can't be right.

Also, Lambert should have been the Caretaker in the first movie. Or the voice of wisdom or whatever is equivalent to a Cogliostro like character.

megladon8

10-12-2010, 07:31 PM

What can't be right about that release?

Sounds reasonable.

Dukefrukem

10-13-2010, 12:54 PM

Like most things, I misread it. I Was thinking 2011.

megladon8

12-14-2010, 08:10 PM

Anyone else see the vid of Cage losing his shit?

Dukefrukem

12-14-2010, 08:14 PM

omg someone find it soon. i gotta see this.

edit: here (http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=20020&count=0)

TGM

12-14-2010, 08:32 PM

Ghost Rider could have been decent if they didn't try to cram so much into so little time. Scrap the whole mini-boss thing they had going on, use that time to flesh out the story and central characters some more, and pretty much go from there.

The first one was pretty bad, but it sucks because the potential was actually there. Hopefully they've learned from there mistakes and can improve on the sequel.

Grouchy

12-15-2010, 12:42 AM

Wow, "dracului" means "Hell" in Romanian.

That's just fucking cool.

Dukefrukem

01-25-2011, 05:56 PM

SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE

http://s3.amazonaws.com/coolproduction/ckeditor_assets/pictures/449/original/gr2hellbike.jpg?1295976506

Ezee E

01-25-2011, 06:00 PM

No person would ever do that to their bike.

number8

01-25-2011, 07:51 PM

So, instead of using CGI, they just threw some Czech stuntman on a bike and lit him on fire, didn't they?

Dukefrukem

07-28-2011, 06:25 PM

Oh shiiit

http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/53424.jpg

http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/53422.jpg

http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/53423.jpg

Irish

07-28-2011, 06:44 PM

Oh man what the fuck is Idris Elba doing? He's better than this.

number8

07-28-2011, 06:53 PM

I think this movie might surprise some people.

megladon8

07-28-2011, 07:25 PM

I think this movie might surprise some people.

Agreed. It's sounding like it'll be a lot of fun.

Dukefrukem

07-28-2011, 07:32 PM

I think this movie might surprise some people.

Well? Will it?? Did you see anything this past week?

Ivan Drago

07-28-2011, 07:36 PM

Agreed. It's sounding like it'll be a lot of fun.

It's Nicolas Cage being directed by the guys who made Crank. It was never not going to be fun.

number8

07-28-2011, 07:42 PM

Top 5 reasons to be excited for this:

1. It's violent. Really violent. It-may-possibly-be-rated-R-on-release violent.

2. Idris Elba's character is a warrior monk who is DRUNK THE WHOLE TIME.

3. Ghost Rider's Hellcycle isn't a special bike. Basically, anything Ghost Rider rides turns into a hell version. There's a sequence where Ghost Rider gets into a strip miner and it turns into a Hell Strip Miner.

4. This extends to bodily functions. At one point, Ghost Rider takes a piss and fire shoots out of his cock. In another, a thug unloads a whole clip of Uzi into Ghost Rider's face and he responds by eating the bullets and vomiting flaming bullets at the thug's face.

5. The tagline at the end of the trailer is: "GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE - Fucking your shit up in 3D February 2012."

number8

07-28-2011, 09:11 PM

I just realized that with my posting history, the previous post could be read as a joke post. That is not so. Everything I said above are true and were shown/revealed at Comic-Con.

Skitch

07-29-2011, 12:21 AM

Oh man what the fuck is Idris Elba doing? He's better than this.

Clearly you have not seen The Losers.

Ivan Drago

07-29-2011, 01:12 AM

As far as I'm concerned, 2012 is all about Batman, Spider-Man, QT, PTA, Lincoln, Battleship, The Avengers, The Hobbit, and this.

Ezee E

07-29-2011, 01:49 AM

As far as I'm concerned, 2012 is all about Batman, Spider-Man, QT, PTA, Lincoln, Battleship, The Avengers, and this.
Is there a tentpole movie that we're missing? :lol:

Sven

07-29-2011, 02:17 AM

As far as I'm concerned, 2012 is all about Batman, Spider-Man, QT, PTA, Lincoln, Battleship, The Avengers, and this.

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Ivan Drago

07-29-2011, 03:27 AM

Is there a tentpole movie that we're missing? :lol:

. . .Point taken and fixed.

Morris Schæffer

07-29-2011, 09:41 AM

Didn't these guys also direct the much-maligned Skyline? Or are those the guys from alien vs. Predator 2?

From those five reasons number8 provided, I'm gleaming from this it's the kind of movie where the hero can't get hurt no matter what is thrown at him.

I predict this will be appaling. Part one was no fun and the Crank movies became a pain to sit through after about half an hour.

Skitch

07-29-2011, 11:45 AM

Didn't these guys also direct the much-maligned Skyline? Or are those the guys from alien vs. Predator 2?

The AVP2 guys made Skyline. These guys made Crank 1 & 2 and Gamer.

Dukefrukem

08-19-2011, 12:31 PM

http://www.shockya.com/news/wp-content/uploads/ghost-rider-spirit-of-vengeance-poster12a.jpg

megladon8

08-19-2011, 06:31 PM

Trailer. (http://www.thespiritofvengeance.com/)

number8

08-19-2011, 06:49 PM

Yep.

Dukefrukem

08-19-2011, 07:06 PM

Haha. I'll bite.

Henry Gale

08-19-2011, 08:24 PM

Oh my... ahaha wow, I just don't even...

Yes, please.

Morris Schæffer

08-19-2011, 11:42 PM

That's worth a download.

Ezee E

08-20-2011, 12:08 AM

Dumb. But not to the level that the first one looked.

B-side

08-20-2011, 12:30 AM

Trailer. (http://www.thespiritofvengeance.com/)

I never thought I'd say this, but... I'm excited for the sequel to a terrible film.

Sycophant

08-20-2011, 03:28 AM

Opening weekend, motherfuckers.

(Mark Steven Johnson's film is maybe one of the worst I've seen)

megladon8

08-20-2011, 03:36 AM

Opening weekend, motherfuckers.

(Mark Steven Johnson's film is maybe one of the worst I've seen)

Agreed on both comments :)

Nice to see you back, and great avatar!

BuffaloWilder

08-20-2011, 06:08 AM

I met Mark Steven Johnson after the first film came out at our local Comic Con, in 2007. Man, that guy. You know those guys who wear Polo shirts that are two sizes too small for them just to show off their tatted-up muscles, with the collar popped up and a sideways baseball cap?

He's that guy. He kept calling me 'bro.' I set his car on fire.

Also this looks interesting, but Neveldine/Taylor are just a shit directorial team so far. So, could go either way.

B-side

08-20-2011, 06:11 AM

Neveldine/Taylor are just a shit directorial team so far.

Incorrect.

Irish

08-20-2011, 06:52 AM

Agree with Wilder. These guys are interesting only in their excess. That's a half trick pony and it'll get old fast -- as soon as their core audience reaches puberty.

Sxottlan

08-20-2011, 08:37 AM

Oh geeze this is a product of the lawfirm of Neveldine and Taylor?

That said, that looks better than it has any right to. The shot at 1:36 is amazing. I just hope there's another musical number like Gamer.

4. At one point, Ghost Rider takes a piss and fire shoots out of his cock.

I think Neveldine and Taylor must have read my picture caption here (http://match-cut.org/showpost.php?p=61544&postcount=2).

This calls for a new Match Cut banner:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/Sxottlan/GR2Banner.jpg

Morris Schæffer

08-20-2011, 08:39 AM

Also this looks interesting, but Neveldine/Taylor are just a shit directorial team so far. So, could go either way.

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/uploads/NathanGreno/2011-02-10_140732_nail+on+head.jpg#nai l%20on%20the%20head

Ivan Drago

08-26-2011, 02:45 PM

Opening weekend, motherfuckers.

Yeah, pretty much.

The energy and fun of the Crank movies never fail to bring out the inner 12-year-old in me, and the trailer for this did the same.

Sxottlan

08-27-2011, 08:00 AM

By the way, this...

3. Ghost Rider's Hellcycle isn't a special bike. Basically, anything Ghost Rider rides turns into a hell version. There's a sequence where Ghost Rider gets into a strip miner and it turns into a Hell Strip Miner.

...sounds really cool.

Morris Schæffer

08-27-2011, 08:58 AM

He should get into an ice cream truck!:D

Dukefrukem

10-20-2011, 11:52 AM

First Clip (http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/26829)

I LOVE the way this was shot. I might actually see this in theaters now. (the noise coming from the bike sounds like a combination of the Monster from Lost and Transformers)

The clip isn't spoilage and it's short.

Skitch

12-15-2011, 09:37 PM

Joblo has a new trailer. Wow.

number8

12-15-2011, 09:50 PM

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810186371/video/27601473

Crazy stuff.

Blackout is in it!

TGM

12-15-2011, 09:53 PM

Looks like a good time!

Watashi

12-15-2011, 09:53 PM

This was ripped to shreds at Harry's Butt-Numb-A-Thon last weekend. Some people said it was worse than first one! Ouch.

Morris Schæffer

12-15-2011, 10:46 PM

This was ripped to shreds at Harry's Butt-Numb-A-Thon last weekend. Some people said it was worse than first one! Ouch.

Gotta say, I ain't at all surprised.

Ezee E

12-15-2011, 11:03 PM

Ha, however, the only one actually one Knowles' website is a favorable review. Said reviewer loved every movie...

And glad I diddn't apply. It was a crappy selection this year, one of them being Hugo.... Um... released a few weeks ago.

Skitch

12-15-2011, 11:23 PM

This was ripped to shreds at Harry's Butt-Numb-A-Thon last weekend. Some people said it was worse than first one! Ouch.

This trailer is better than the first movie. If those 2-3 minutes are in the sequel, than its better. :D

Sxottlan

02-18-2012, 01:18 AM

Uh.. Wow. This was actually pretty fun.

First Neveldine/Taylor that I have liked.

Which naturally means everyone else will probably hate it.

B-side

02-18-2012, 01:20 AM

Uh.. Wow. This was a lot of fun.

First Neveldine/Taylor that I have actually liked.

Which naturally means everyone else will probably hate it.

I wanna see it!

Ivan Drago

02-18-2012, 02:02 AM

Did you see it in 3D or 2D?

Sxottlan

02-18-2012, 03:12 AM

3D. But only because it was a more convenient time. I would have rather seen it in 2D. Naturally, they're only doing a couple 2D screenings a day in favor of pushing the 3D.

The 3D wasn't particularly outstanding (no pun intended), but at least it wasn't blurry.