With shooting about rapped on the sequel to the 2007 crap fest which was GHOST RIDER the directors have shone a light some of the details of the sequel. He seems to equal loath the comic book and film origins and has basically created a re-imagining of the character but still under the pre-tense of a sequel, much like THE INCREDIBLE HULK.
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.
So it’s interesting that they hint at the possibility of looking into the demon that inhabits Johnny Blaze (Nic Cage) named Zarathos. Originally it was a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde thing with Zarathos being very talkative and evil, you know since he’s a demon and all. Also there is some news about another character synonymous with Ghost Rider called Blackheart. Johnny Whitworth (LIMITLESS) is cast as one of the many sons of the devil (Blackheart) and had this to say:
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.
Sounds like he isn’t going to start off as Blackheart but probably makes a pact with the Devil like Johnny Blaze does but with no inner conflict or thought about his situation being a curse.
GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE comes out Feb 17th 2012.
