The movie, featuring Nicolas Cage as the demonic biker anti-hero based on the Marvel comic, is a sequel to the 2007 movie and has Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor behind the cameras.
The story sees Johnny Blaze, aka Ghost Rider (Cage), hiding out in remote Eastern Europe and struggling to repress his curse. Blaze is recruited by a sect to take on the devil (Hinds), who wants to take over his mortal son's body on the boy's birthday.
Placido ("The American") will play the boy's mother.
Neveldine and Taylor wrote the script, working off a story by David Goyer.
Avi Arad, Ari Arad, Michael De Luca, Ashok Amritraj and Steven Paul are producing.The filmmakers are revving toward a late-November start, with shooting scheduled for Romania and Turkey.
Columbia will release the film in North America, and Hyde Park Entertainment has international distribution rights.Matt Tolmach and Rachel O'Connor are overseeing for Columbia.
The CAA-repped Hinds stars with Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington in "The Debt" and appears as Aberforth Dumbledore in the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" films. He might be best known for portraying Julius Caesar in HBO's "Rome."http://heatvision.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/09/ghost-rider-2-ciaran-hinds-.html
