SDCC 2011: GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE Footage - First Impressions

 

The panel opened up with a very fun video that shows off how directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor make their movies, and these guys are nuts! They get right into the action... for example, they strap themselves into a pair of roller blades, and get pulled behind a high speed motorcycle holding the camera to get the shot they want. During the panel they promised that there will be real broken bones in the film Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

After showing off the video, they brought out some of the cast of the film including Nicolas Cage who was just as incredibly dry and monotone as ever, but the preview footage that they showed was freakin' insane!

Look, I hated the first Ghost Rider movie, and I had no desire at all to see this second film. I was just down right pissed when I heard they were making a sequl, but after seeing the footage they showed my views of the sequel drastically changed. Neveldine and Taylor were obviously the right people to take on this franchise because everything about this new film is everything that the first Ghost Rider movie should have been. Th character looks menacingly badass, he looks like the Ghost Rider that I've been wanting to see. They really did a great job bringing him to life, this is the Ghost rider we’ve been waiting for. It looks a hundred times better than the original. 

The trailer we saw was extremely hardcore and fast paced. It looks like there's a lot of energy packed into this film, and Ghost Rider is bloody ruthless! Just an example of what's in store, one of the scenes include Ghost Rider walking up to a guy who is shooting into his flaming skull with an Uzi. Ghost Rider opens his mouth wide and takes every bullet that’s pumped into his skull. In turn Ghost Rider spits out a fiery eruption of bullets into the other guys face. It was awesome. In this movie anything that the Ghost Rider rides turns into a hell vehicle, so he's just not riding a hell cycle in the film. Every vehicle he gets hellified. 

This is going to be a much more gritty hard-edged Ghost Rider film than what we've seen in the past. And I'm really looking forward to seeing this new Ghost Rider movie in action, because this actually feels like Ghost Rider. 

Here’s a detailed plot synopsis for the film:

Johnny Blaze found years after the events of the first film, self-exiled from the world. In this way, hopefully, not having contact with people, able to control the spirit of Vengeance. Blaze is approached by Moreau, a monaco quite unusual part of the monastic order of Michael, the warrior angel. The Monaco but needs the special talents of former stuntman to trace a woman named Nadya and her son Danny, who must be protected at all costs, as there is on his trail Roarke, who is none other than an old knowledge of our hero (you certainly understand who they are) and is interested in the guy for a particular reason.

The script strongly underlines the tormented soul of Johnny Blaze since its first appearance. For he is a man who just wants to hide and who sees in his power a curse, more muted than in films directed by Mark Steven Johnson. The script focuses on the background in this way also "historic" that covers Ghost Rider, explaining in more detail to the viewer and the protagonist that the spirit of Vengeance is appearing more than once, and with different identities over the centuries. An interesting part of this working thanks to the characterization, creating a strong bond between the characters of Nadya, Danny and Johnny, also not forgetting Moreau, well shaded from start to finish. Only link with the previous film is a little flashback on the Origin of Ghost Rider, the covenant between Blaze and Mephistopheles.

A defect in particular, however, is to underline the main plot of "Mephisto" bad, or to Roarke, of course already seen in myriad other films in one way or another, and perhaps a little degrading, who expected more from this point of view. Ultimately the work is pretty good but could do better, also seen the one from which you started earlier. For the most passionate fans, there's a final twist, but much nerd. Not reveal more."

Note: This image above is not form the sequel of this film.

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