For now, Nicolas Cage says his Ghost Rider days are over

Extra Tidbit:	I actually saw GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGENCE. Though the entire time I kept saying, "WTF is this crazy shit?" I still watched it from beginning to end.

Source:	MTV

Tags:	2007, Eva Mendes, Ghost Rider, Mark Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Peter Fonda, Sam Elliott, Shane Salerno, thriller, Wes Bentley

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2:36PM on 03/11/2013

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I thought cage was fine as Johnny Blaze aka Ghost Rider. No problem with him in the role. The 2nd movie had a bad script, bad vision.

filmaddict

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5:58PM on 03/10/2013

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Cage is wrong.

Ghost Rider 2 was made for around $60 mil (before advertising/marketing budget), and only made $137 mil worldwide. That's barely approaching $150 mil, let alone the $200 mil figure he cites. DVD sales aren't that strong, Cage. Mind you - studios only keep roughly half a film's theatrical gross due to theater retentions, so that means Ghost Rider just barely turned profit. Coupled with its horrible reviews and awful domestic performance, it's safe to say any further sequels will probably be

Ghost Rider 2 was made for around $60 mil (before advertising/marketing budget), and only made $137 mil worldwide. That's barely approaching $150 mil, let alone the $200 mil figure he cites. DVD sales aren't that strong, Cage. Mind you - studios only keep roughly half a film's theatrical gross due to theater retentions, so that means Ghost Rider just barely turned profit. Coupled with its horrible reviews and awful domestic performance, it's safe to say any further sequels will probably be Cage-less or [link] Cage continues his downward career trajectory, in which case he'll be doing the direct-to-video sequels in a few years with $15 mil budgets.

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creamfinger

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5:11PM on 03/10/2013

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That will leave his schedule open for the next Superman reboot.

morix

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5:07PM on 03/10/2013

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No. Stop. Come back. /willywonka

Nivekian

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11:58AM on 03/10/2013

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Great News, he was incredibly miscast, twice

Maybe now, Marvel can get the character cast as a younger guy who is believable as a motorcycle stuntman to play Johnny Blaze, or give that kind of out dated character a break and do a revision with Dan Ketch as more as a Supernatural revenge story without any Deals with the Devil, weak demons, misinterpreted amalgamations of bad guys, and people who say they like the character, but do not apparently know a damn thing about it.

monica.hewit@yahoo.com

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11:46AM on 03/10/2013

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pramirez3205

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10:02PM on 03/09/2013

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dont blame the actors blame the director.

remember Mark Steven Johnson directed both daredevil and ghost rider which were both turds.get a good director and maybe a god movie will be made.

Lone Justice

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5:55PM on 03/09/2013

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Thank God

Reboot the shit outta this, make the story subtle, take place in the South, heck, make it take place in the 70's- that'd be sweet. Get Barry Pepper or Matthew McConaughey to be Johnny Blaze. Do it up PROPER yo

Jeff Knite

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5:46PM on 03/09/2013

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I guess he's not as good at math as he is at reading Comic Books

Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office $51,774,002
International Box Office $82,826,484
Worldwide Box Office $134,600,486
Home Market Performance
Domestic DVD Sales: $11,119,248

scoot

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3:18PM on 03/09/2013

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Actually...

I actually love the first one, it's a guilty pleasure. I'm fully aware it's a bad movie and understand why people don't like it, but there's a special place in my heart for the most hammy of Nic Cage roles haha

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polarboy

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10:59AM on 03/09/2013

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Good decision, Nic.

Thank effing goodness. Second movie was truckloads better than the first, but was still horrendously bad. I still haven't given up on the Rider though. I say get Josh Holloway to play Blaze, and someone like Joe Carnahan to helm if he isn't too sour over the recent Daredevil deal. It'll work.

Jedd the Jedi

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4:49AM on 03/09/2013

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It's probably for the best that he's stopped being a Matchstick Man.

DaForce

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4:44AM on 03/09/2013

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Of course he's done, since he destroyed the franchise.

Rubberboy

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3:25AM on 03/09/2013

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Good... coz the last one sucked major ass.

justjoe

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3:10AM on 03/09/2013

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He�s done? Good, now I can sleep a litte better.

DoB

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10:54PM on 03/08/2013

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These movies are god awful. The first one is one of the worst movies I've ever sat through. He may have read a lot of comics but his love of the medium did not transfer to the big screen. It's too bad because I keep rooting for Cage to make it back to the top and stop pumping out 10 crap movies a year for the paycheck.

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Kier0775

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10:26PM on 03/08/2013

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For the best

Say what you will about Nic Cage, the guy loves his comics. Thing about Ghost Rider is that its hard to be respectful to the source but at the same time reaching all audiences. His take on the rider was his own and it would be cool to see another rendition but for the time its probably best that it take its' time.

Longbaugh

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10:07PM on 03/08/2013

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There was something about the batshit craziness of the second one that made me kind of like it. It was all over the goddamn map, but it was better than the first.

martinphipps

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9:57PM on 03/08/2013

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If Spirits of Vengence had had a bigger budget

they could have afforded to reshoot scenes that didn't work quite as well as they probably sounded in the script.

martinphipps

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9:53PM on 03/08/2013

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Two words

Daniel Ketch

grelber37

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9:00PM on 03/08/2013

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A recent Ghost Rider series had a female Ghost Rider. Cage does perhaps really know his comics well. Would a female Ghost Rider bring in a new and larger audience for the franchise? That is a question. The cineplex could use more female action heroes. Alejandra Blaze and her kick-ass alter-ego could provide such a heroine.

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tearlis

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8:00PM on 03/08/2013

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hate men

Call me crazy, but I liked the second movie over the first movie, it wasn't great, but it wasn't the worst film ive ever seen, so far "house of the dead" still holds that honor, along with "pootie tang"