Nicolas Cage calls time on Ghost Rider
If there's a Ghost Rider 3, it's looking like it won't feature Nicolas Cage...
The commercial success of the first Ghost Rider movie, which saw Nicolas Cage take on the role of Johnny Blaze, didn't lead to a follow-up anywhere near as quickly as some would have expected. Thus, when last year's Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance was released five years on, it bore few ties to the original film, and it spluttered at the box office. Its $132m worldwide take wasn't bad, but it was a good deal less than the first Ghost Rider took.
That said, Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance was also a much cheaper film to make, and as such, it didn't necessarily mark the end of the cinematic series. However, a new interview with Nicolas Cage suggests that he and Johnny Blaze are through.
Chatting to Collider, Cage said of a Ghost Rider 3 that "it's possible, but it won't be with me". He then added that "I’ve said what I have to say. I don’t want to say never…anything’s possible. But I doubt, highly, that I would be in a third installment of that".
That does beg the question as to whether a reboot is on the cards, with a new actor. If that's the case, then it's likely that Sony will wait a few years before pressing ahead with it. The full piece at Collider can be found here.
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The second movie sucked so much... I can't really say I'm surprised !
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He was never a good fit with the character anyways. The trouble with Nic Cage is he's pretty much always Nic Cage. And while that can be fine in original movies, when you're adapting an existing character to the screen, when your lead can't do anything but play himself, or won't do anything but play himself, then it limits the material. I didn't see the second one, but the first was disappointing on too many levels.
I kind off liked the Ghost Rider movies, but that might be because I don't know the source material. (I liked the Eragon movie too, before I read the books.)
I think the best thing for the character is to let Marvel get its movierights back and reboot the whole thing into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
How long before the rights revert back to Marvel?
Yeah, seriously, that's what needs to happen here for sure.
I just can't see him chillin in the smoking section of the avengers' tower, hulk would eventually go all "fire bad!" And lose all credibility, though that would be entertaining, I think ghost rider works better in a less is more kinda way. In wolverine goes to hell, some guy and 2 ghost riders are charged with the task of reining in the demon possessed body of the titular hero, and right then they seemed appropriate and within a superhero context at that. But the convoluted stories for the nick cage adventures played out more like the da Vinci code and Angels and Demons than anything remotely superhero-ey. To me he's just not in the league of say Spawn. There's no reason to like this Scorpion on wheels, and I'm not even talking about the stark raving lunatic howling every line as if you get Oscars for turet's syndrome (you get it for stuttering, easy mistake), so honestly, of it were anyone but Bruce Campbell in the early 80's, then I'll pass.... But the industrial Ferris wheel thingy that was on fire on part 2 was actually cool
Just because Marvel would have control again doesn't mean he'd have to join the Avengers lineup. I agree with you, that wouldn't work out well for the character, but I don't think Marvel would go down that route even if they could. I don't recall seeing Ghost Rider in any of the big Marvel company wide crossover stories before, and I'm willing to bet it's for that very reason.
Well he's way different than the other heroes. I mean I can see how rocket raccoon will fit, seeing how goofy avengers was at times. On another subject a cousin of mine said why make an antman movie? He's not comic book fan mind u, and liked iron man 1and 2 and Incredible Hulk but not Thor and cap's movies, which I can understand but not totally agree with, seeing as he's cool and I'm a geek. Anyway I said I'd rather he have a movie than not and he said he should only appear in the avengers or cameos in the separate films. Which makes me wonder, think he'll appear in avengers 2 THEN have his own outing? Or just start right off in antman?
He's frequently been in Hulk storylines and vice versa.
I haven't read it but one time it was him, red hulk, venom and I don't know x-23 or somebody and the four teamed up, seemed interesting
Fine, but those aren't Avengers storylines.
IF Marvel get the rights back, I think they'll be smart enough to put him in his own film first. And I think/hope it might even be a 15/18/R. Marvel Knights style film FTW. I do not think they would introduce him in Ant Man given who is directing that film. It just wouldn't be a good fit with how I see Edgar Wright doing Ant Man.
I agree with Geoff Morton. The first Ghost Rider was a potentially great film, but having Nicholas Cage in the title role was completely naff, for the reason Geoff states - he is always Nicholas Cage. Probably the best thing a producer could do when wondering whether to cast Cage in a particular role, is to think to themselves: "What would he look like if he played Batman?" If the image produces howls of laughter echoing round the production office, this indicates an unwise casting choice! My choice to play Ghost Rider? How about Robert Pattinson from the Twilight Saga?