Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)

[samuelrichardscott]

Director Brian Taylor:

We basically completely re-envisioned the whole start of the character, and actually had to re-engineer the origin of the Ghost Rider. The whole mythology behind the Ghost Rider that existed in the comic books never really made sense to me, so we sort of had to re-engineer the entire back-story of the Ghost Rider into something new. We’re just looking at it as an evolution. The movie takes place years later. We’re not disowning the first movie but this Ghost Rider is an evolved form of the previous Ghost Rider. And the mythology that went behind it is stuff that never got delved into in the first movie, anyway. Like, they don’t talk about who the demon is from when Johnny Blaze becomes the Ghost Rider. We get into that and really get into who that guy is, what his story is, and what makes GR the way that he is.

Johnny Whitworth who plays Blackout:

I play the villain who, at the beginning, up until like page 70, is human. I’m not a very nice guy. I’m bad. I get turned into, for those who read ‘Ghost Rider’, the character Blackout. I get turned into him by the devil to complete my job. That gives me the fortitude to fight Ghost Rider and the supernatural abilities to compete on some level with that guy.

This is due out later this year and was filmed in the middle of 2010. First one was terrible apart from Eva Mendes

[Dragonfire]

I didn't mind the first one.

[samuelrichardscott]

Win a ticket to the world premiere by creating a poster:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/168702-create-a-ghost-rider-poster-in-new-face-of-the-fan-contest

[Jon]

Weird. The next post of Sam's I read is about a character doing a deal with the devil and Sam's post count is currently 666. 

[samuelrichardscott]

 

[Jon]

Panic over.    

Anyway, first film was terrible, but I read an article in Empire about this one and they do seem to recognise they cocked up and want to put that right. Could just be hype of course.