Source: Collider
“We basically said, we want to do it, [would] absolutely love to do it, but it’s gotta be 100% different from the first movie, everything, except for Nic. We want the character to look different, feel different, sound different. The backstory of the character’s different, the origin of the story is expanded upon in ways that the first movie didn’t hint at, at all. The location’s different, the whole cast is different; the only thing that’s the same is Nic…It’s pretty much a reboot, only with the same actor, which makes it: a requel. Or a seboot, I can’t decide which one I like better.”
It seems that Mr. Taylor felt the same way as I did with the original film in that the best thing out of the whole ordeal was the enthusiasm that Nic Cage had for the role. But that’s not all as the director actually had a lot more to say as to what attracted him to the project and the explanation of his requel… err.. seboot… Yeah, that and when we’d actually see some footage.
“The first attraction was Nic and the second was the character and just how cool it could be. [I wanted to] kinda make the Ghost Rider movie that I wished I had seen before.”
“The reports of the budget of Ghost Rider have been greatly exaggerated. It’s about the same as [Gamer]. We didn’t have a lot of money to make this film…but we’re pretty creative. It’s gonna look fuckin’ huge.”
“[Blackout’s] a fun character. His powers are pretty cool, we did things with his powers that aren’t in the original comic books…We’re gonna do a huge splash at the Comic-Con. That’s when we really want people to see what the new, evolved Ghost Rider looks like as well as the first peeks at the villains.”
He is clearly distancing himself from any association from the original movie, which is very appreciable from my seat, in an effort to do any damage control for the franchise. I’m almost always willing to give a comic book movie a shot and, although this isn’t the ideal superhero movie for Nic Cage to be attached to, I am willing to give it another shot to change my outlook on the franchise. I’m hoping this fares better than the last comic book film he was associated with and will try to remain optimistic until comic con rolls around.
