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09-24-2009, 10:35 AM
Columbia Pictures has confirmed that it's working on a sequel for Ghost Rider.
Variety reports that David Goyer is in talks to create a new story and supervise writers for the film, which will once again star Nicolas Cage as the flaming motorcyclist. Mark Steven Johnson wrote and directed the original.
Goyer told the trade mag he would revisit a script he wrote for a Ghost Rider film several years ago. Whether this will see Jonny Blaze embark on an international adventure, as Nicolas Cage has suggested, has not yet been revealed.
Goyer, who penned the script when the property was at the now-defunct Savoy Pictures, said at the time that the filmmakers intention for Ghost Rider was to have it be "more Road Warrior than Marvel Universe."
Here's the synopsis of Goyer's 1995 script :-
That draft was set in New Orleans. The bad guys were a gang of bikers, led by Skinner, who are members of the Hidden (humans of demon ancestry). Thousands of years ago, the demon Zarathos impregnated a hundred women so there are now thousands of his unknowing descendants roaming the earth.
The Hidden are preparing the way for Zarathos' return to earth during the impending Perfect Eclipse. This cosmic event happens only once every ten thousand years so Zarathos can't afford any mistakes. Skinner will serve as his host body while on earth, but acting as the demon's chief assistant on earth is the sorcerer Devereux (a role that the project's then-producer Jon Voight would have presumably played) who is granted near immortality by Zarathos. Obviously, Johnny Blaze is the only thing standing in their way.
Variety reports that David Goyer is in talks to create a new story and supervise writers for the film, which will once again star Nicolas Cage as the flaming motorcyclist. Mark Steven Johnson wrote and directed the original.
Goyer told the trade mag he would revisit a script he wrote for a Ghost Rider film several years ago. Whether this will see Jonny Blaze embark on an international adventure, as Nicolas Cage has suggested, has not yet been revealed.
Goyer, who penned the script when the property was at the now-defunct Savoy Pictures, said at the time that the filmmakers intention for Ghost Rider was to have it be "more Road Warrior than Marvel Universe."
Here's the synopsis of Goyer's 1995 script :-
That draft was set in New Orleans. The bad guys were a gang of bikers, led by Skinner, who are members of the Hidden (humans of demon ancestry). Thousands of years ago, the demon Zarathos impregnated a hundred women so there are now thousands of his unknowing descendants roaming the earth.
The Hidden are preparing the way for Zarathos' return to earth during the impending Perfect Eclipse. This cosmic event happens only once every ten thousand years so Zarathos can't afford any mistakes. Skinner will serve as his host body while on earth, but acting as the demon's chief assistant on earth is the sorcerer Devereux (a role that the project's then-producer Jon Voight would have presumably played) who is granted near immortality by Zarathos. Obviously, Johnny Blaze is the only thing standing in their way.