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Nicolas Cage Wants Ghost Rider Sequel

by Fred Topel | December 27, 2007

Summary

Nicolas Cage had never made a sequel until National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Now, that franchise seems to have whet his appetite to return to other characters too. The most likely candidate would be the comic book superhero Ghost Rider. Back to Article

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kesic03 writes:
on Dec 28 2007 10:53 AM

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ABSOLUTELY. better bad guys is a must. less campy and darker of a film. eva has to be recast. and sam elliot should return. need more scenes of the GR doing his thing at night. i want to see him enforcing the streets many times. we only got one when he saved that fat chick under the bridge. not good enough, wanna see him out at night on several nights, taking out bad people.

as a cherry on the cake, make it R. instead of bad guys "freezing people". uhhhgh. the pg13-way, how dumb.

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u1sart writes:
on Dec 28 2007 12:23 PM

COME ON, COME ONE!!! trust me, why would they want to put cage back as ghsot rider, He sucked the last one and now he want to suck some more in a "sequel". Ghost Rider can be reserrected as an exception super hero movie, but they need to understand that Ghsotrider sppose to be dark and gritty, near horror, not some "oh look at me i have fire around me and i ride a bike made from Orange County Choppers... please get a grip, make is scarry and fun to watch.

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sund7cuU writes:
on Dec 28 2007 01:22 PM

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"......ghost rider should have been a movie in the planet terror/from dusk till dawn mold... a kick *** action movie that was a little rough around the edges......"

I've been telling everyone the exact same thing! I believe there are many different ways to make a comic book movie. The ultra-serious Batman or Hulk approach is fine but we don't need that for every character. The whole concept of Ghost Rider is pretty absurd to begin with, so why not use that to your advantage. Give us two hours of a flaming Harley driving around, with the flaming-horse-Sam Elliot guy beside him, leaving a trail of scorched zombie carcasses. All to a bad-a$$ metal soundtrack. Planet Terror is a perfect example of the so-absurd-it's-awesome approach. I will only be interested in Ghost Rider 2 when they announce that Rodriguez is directing.

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jmo2ski writes:
on Dec 28 2007 03:28 PM

Yes a sequel would be good, the director promise more action, and let's be serious, this movie really needs action, dialogue, and definitely better bad guys. So go for it.

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Mr. Kong writes:
on Dec 28 2007 03:33 PM

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Aknddon, before you were banned, you said ghost rider bombed.

shut the **** up.

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asuguy1 writes:
on Dec 28 2007 05:39 PM

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asuguy1 writes:
on Dec 28 2007 05:51 PM

once i find the correct link i will get batspideykong and tobascoman banned, those hypocrites will be gone so say goodbye while i continue to search.

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chicubs1 writes:
on Dec 28 2007 06:39 PM

How did you get this guy banned? I keep getting PMs from someone that i think needs to be banned.

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DANAD01 writes:
on Dec 28 2007 10:13 PM

Ghost Rider was actually a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. The movie made $228 million per Box Office Mojo so obviously a lot of people liked it well enough. A sequel would be great if they just had more action!

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High School With Money writes:
on Dec 29 2007 04:37 AM

[b]Having not seen Ghost Rider, can someone give me an idea of how lame the villians are?[/b]

They're basically Power Ranger-ish goth-mo villains, each with THE POWER OF AN ELEMENT (making Ghostie the Fire Elemental). Each of them goes down quicker than a Beijing whore on a wealthy trick. With a twist in the story (or several acrobatics), Sam Elliot could've made an excellent baddie.

[b]Hand the script to the dude who did Batman Begins, Blade (first one), [/b]

Yeeeeehhh... let's give it to David "Lost World" Goyer... cuz I'm sure that David "Blade Trinity" Goyer would be an excellent choice...

No matter whom you deem to pick, they'll always have a credit or ten that won't meet your approval. And if a certain someone didn't yet, he soon will. So what's the point in picking favorites?

[b]but whoever wrote about the music score was on point it must have been the same guy who did the Punisher score that music was like some Captain America $%#% not some grimy killer [/b]

Chris Young = Carlo Siliotto? On what planet? Oh, that right, Planet Punktuate. The planet who sole inhabitant couldn't tell a brassy anthem from a Ennio Morricone homage.

Oh, and thanks for the run-on sentences. Made it really easy to pinpoint your non-points.

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xeronic writes:
on Dec 29 2007 05:08 AM

i will join in and say NAY to a Sequel to this ****ty movie... EVA MENDES ruined the movie before i even saw it. When i actually did see it, it was total garbage.

Do Deadpool movie..kthx.

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High School With Money writes:
on Dec 29 2007 06:24 AM

And by David "Lost World" Goyer, I meant David "Crow 2" Goyer. On Planet Money, it's hard to keep track of Goyers and Koepps and hacks of that nature. A small inconvenience, at most.

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High School With Money writes:
on Dec 29 2007 06:28 AM

And by David "Lost World" Goyer, I meant David "Crow 2" Goyer. On Planet Money, it's hard to keep track of Goyers and Koepps and hacks of that nature. A small inconvenience, at most.

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kROCK writes:
on Dec 29 2007 01:17 PM

Please....no..more Ghost Rider... Nicholas Cage should go into hiding for a while and then choose an actually good movie to reboot his career. You know there's something wrong with you if you actually want to be in a Ghost Rider sequel.

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Dane Cook is NOT Funny writes:
on Dec 29 2007 05:28 PM

I know I am going to get it for this, but I really didn't think it was that bad. I didn't love it and it wasn't well acted at all, but I kinda think that maybe if they had a second chance, they could turn it around. Everyone has to admit, it's an entertaining story, so maybe with a second chance, it would be good. Hey, we watched 1000 Pirate movies and we will have to be stuck with 1000 more Spidermans (that will get progressively worse) , so why not give this franchise a chance?

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reyes writes:
on Dec 29 2007 06:48 PM

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I gonna have to end it all.

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acton acton writes:
on Dec 29 2007 07:53 PM

well lets look at AVP we were a little hestitant on a sequel til it became rated r then us true fans saw it and loved it so if Ghost rider becomes more violent and a little more realistic looking it has a chance, dedburger dont comment your just digging a hole of stupidity more and more. I like nic in every other movie its hit or miss with him mostly due to the genre of the film he is a good actor.

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kissman24 writes:
on Dec 29 2007 08:53 PM

This movie sucked. A sequel for "Ghost Rider" would be about as necessary as "Universal Soldier 2" was.

I was one of those idiots who contributed to the $45 million opening weekend because I still thought that I might like it despite the rotten reviews. Silly me! I promise that I will not make that mistake a second time around.

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onebadgungan writes:
on Dec 29 2007 09:36 PM

Well, I just watched GR for the first time (like, ten minutes ago), and while it certainly wasn't the best film I've ever seen, it was (flaming) head and shoulders over the Fantastic Four celluloid abortion, the All-Dancing Spiderman 3, and the "Hey, let's urinate all over the characters and concepts" X-Men 3. Combined. It was better than Daredevil.

Yeah, there were some wasted moments. Yeah, there was some corny dialog. Yeah, Sam Elliott looked like he was going to eat the Styrofoam headstones he was in charge of. But if you've ever read a comic, you have to realize that's what these types of characters and films are representative of.

It wasn't perfect, but are you people so jaded and your suspension of disbelief so dead that you can't even allow yourself to enjoy a little escapist fantasy?

I, for one, would see a sequel. And I suspect that pretty much all of you complaining about the film would too, if just so you could cement your "fanboy" cred by complaining about GR2 as well.

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chicubs1 writes:
on Dec 30 2007 12:40 AM

onebadgungan you better watch out or they are going to kill you for not hating the movie, or they will call you stupid.

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