NICe one Meg! it is actually really really excellent hearing from Brian Taylor about the movie, I hope he and Mark Neveldine do more interviews soon!

I thought they were great questions about the new origin sequence and how that will feel to the fans of the first Ghost Rider movie, and I am pleasantly surprised by the reply..it sounds as if it is not going to counter the original, just elaborate...but it also sounds as if, like the first movie, it deviates from the comic book.....which if I remember correctly really pissed of the hardcore GR comic book fans about the first movie. But  with Neveldine and Taylor at the helm there is going to be so much more edge and unique energy that this movie will get a thumbsup from all sides of the camp!

I like the idea of evolution and delving deeper...

and yes, lovely words about Nic, intriguing too....!

 

While doing press the other week for Drive Angry, Nic Cage really big upped Ghost Rider 2, said that it will surprise people and that it re-fashions the Ghost Rider origin story. How do you go about doing that?
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.

Audiences have already seen Nic Cage become the Ghost Rider in another film, so how do you overcome the challenges of re-introducing them to an origin when they’ve already seen him take a different path with the character?
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.

While you were filming Ghost Rider 2 a number of randomly goofy photos of Nic Cage escaped out into the world. Were you aware of those pictures?
I’m not sure the ones you’re talking about, but I’d love to see them if you could send me a link. [Laughs] But I’ve got to tell you that working with him was the absolute highlight of that experience. He’s the best. Every day that Nic was on the call sheet and we were coming in to shoot him was a total rush. Shooting action is boring, shooting car crashes and all that stuff. But shooting a Nic Cage performance is a total adrenaline rush.

This line caught my eye...."While you were filming Ghost Rider 2 a number of randomly goofy photos of Nic Cage escaped out into the world"

I'll hazard a guess and say he's talking about the picture we discussed that shows Nic laying on the ground with a crew member shoving her hands under his tush......LOL!

-- Edited by White Fay on Saturday 19th of March 2011 02:29:48 PM

Ah.......that's right!   You liked the Mad Hatter look on him!  LOL!