Ghost Rider - Is it DEAD?

[dh1989]

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I have heard a lot of stuff about this adaptation to the awesome comic book. I have a question? Is it still going? I heard Cage and Voight were going to star, and Norrington was going to direct, but I have not heard any rumblings about it in a while. Does anyone have an answer to this project's current status.

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[arto_j]

It's pretty much good as dead, yeah.

Cage was involved for a while but he left as it wasn't going anywhere. Then Keanu Reeves came along, but he left to do Constantine instead. I don't know if Norrington is still involved, but he's got a shiteload of projects to choose from, and this one probably isn't at the top of the pile.

The biggest problem appears to be the script. David Goyer was once adapting it for quite some time, but he left after the studio apparantly wanted him to make it a PG movie (!!). Pretty understandable...

So, Ghost Rider is pretty much dead at the moment, and it'll take someone with real power behind it to get it going again. But I wouln't count on seeing it in the next 5 years...

[Ender]

It's dead and gone, and I for one am very thankful. The GHOST RIDER they were putting into that script is not the GHOST RIDER I read as a kid. They wanted to push it as a family-oriented PG action movie, which anyone who's ever looked at a single GR panel will tell you is not the way to go. Rumor has it they were even going to abandon the flaming skull motif in exchange for something "safter". This had all the makings of another SPAWN, and I'm glad they put it down before Hollywood emberassed yet another great series.

[dh1989]

PG?! I can officially say I am glad the film is dead. The comics are excellent. Very violent. Great plots. Some of the best action scenes ever drawn and colored, but PG! No friggin' way, this film should be an R. I hope one day we can see a film of this comic done properly. I'd love to see a Ghost Rider: The Hammer Lane film, but not in a family film-style adaptation.

[TheMovieMinor]

I read this a Comics2film.com this morning.

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Nicolas Cage brought back hope to the Ghost Rider fans when he told Sci Fi Wire the script for the movie was going to be finished after the holidays and Columbia was "very excited about it".

Cage made clear that he understood why Blade writer David Goyer's draft of the script hadn't been accepted. The screenplay was very dark and violent. The new one would target at a PG-13 rating.

"The comic book world is originally a world that was a fantasy place for children and younger people. By making it hard R, you'd alienate some of those younger people who want to go to the movies and get lost in that world," he explained.

For Cage the fascination of Ghost Rider was the idea "of a character who's in the dilemma of making a deal with a negative force and then trying to do something positive with it."