so Nic has just completed a round of interviews and given lots of juicy insights into the new Ghost Rider!
I know I'm kind of a lone voice in loving Ghost Rider but I'm getting the feeling the tide is turning?!?
Anyway...wanted to put all the bits of the puzzle together in one place so we can wax lyrical about Spirit of Vengeance!
The following are all excerpts from the interviews posted in The Cagealot Library!
To Collider on what it means to be filming Ghost Rider: It means a lot to me. I have high hopes for it. I'm very confident that something special is going to come out of this experience. You can just feel it on the set.
To Io9 on how Johnny Blaze is different in this version:
He's become a lot more sarcastic, now that his head has been ignited. Unlike the first one where he was trying to keep it at bay. Now he’s been living with the Ghost Rider for some time, there’s a lot more irony with the character. His outlook isn’t as quite naive as it once was.
To io9 on how this version of Ghost Rider differs from the first:
It is a completely different film. The first one, which I won’t denigrate — I liked the first one, but it was almost like a fairy tale. Almost like a Disney fairy tale interpretation of Faust. This one is completely re-conceived, it’s not even connected to the first one, it’s a different origin sequence. But I think it will be a brand new experience. It has more adrenaline involved in the film making process itself, and in the movie when you see it. Again, I think the stuff we’re able to get into with Ghost Rider is going to be a lot more abstract and not like anything you’ve seen before.
To Collider on working with Neveldine and Taylor:
I’m really enjoying my experience with Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. They’re not like anybody I’ve worked with before. They’re total originals. Mark Neveldine is doing things with the camera that are just brand new. He’s on rollerblades. He’s hanging off of wires at 300 feet. He’s just doing things that are combination stuntman and camera operator/director that are quite shocking and quite risky. And Brian Taylor is just a philosopher when it comes to movies. You can talk to him about Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, and you can go into Ishiro Honda’s The War of the Gargantuas, in the same sentence...we've been coming up with a lot of interesting things to do in the abstract, to help support the supernatural aspect of the character. He is the most supernatural superhero afterall.
To io9 on Brian Taylor:
He's the reason why I'm playing The Ghost Rider as well. He really was an advocate of that and inspired me to take that on. As a result of that we're getting into some really abstract stuff that I think will mess with people's minds. I'm really looking forward to it.
What excites me most about this is not just the plot differences and the character, but the flavour...this is going to have a very different ambience and Nic is using the word abstract alot which I like...the whole thing is going to be an experience and have a feel to it beyond the tangible!
In the io9 interview Nic also mentioned he's reading Marvel's Dracula...which fuels the fire to my fantasy of Dracula appearing in the movie. I mean come on...considering the location, they can't fail to atleast make an allusion to him in the movie right?
I enjoy GR1 but it is not my favourite kind of movie, just never really got into comic book adaptions, I do love Nic in it though. I like the humour and his transformation scenes, visually it is very cool, the horse and cycle scene, and so on.
The new one sounds like I will enjoy it very much from all Nic is saying, and I love that he is so enthused and excited about it.
Good idea to put all the bits together, sometimes it gets confusing when a lot of stuff comes out at once.
The idea of Dracula appearing is exciting to me too, and it does make perfect sense!
Beautifully put dear Lady Trueheart, I think you've covered all the elements I enjoyed in the first one too...apart from the sexiness factor of course, but that goes without saying!
Despite the slating it received, I also enjoyed the interpretation, the jelly beans, Karen, the Western/supernatural flavour, the cinematography particularly...stunning actually, to me atleast!
This feels like it will be a more mature movie not in terms of age (Nic's or the audience) but levels and depth....and I am actually going to keep an open mind as to how I will feel about it seeing as I did love the first one, alot. I don't see how it can miss in general though.... All the cool blog heads and comic book heads seem to be won over by Neveldine and Taylor who are the epitome of a certain kind of hardcore cool!!
I'm very excited to hear about the supernatural emphasis, although I wasn't completely mesmerized by the baddies/demons in the first one, i did love the concept of the elements! But perhaps there will be more supernatural characters in this version?!
I wonder what form the transformations will take in Spirit of Vengeance?! And exactly how will is mess with our minds??!!
