"Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance" is more than a year away, but we've heard repeatedly -- particularly from star Nicolas Cage -- that this sequel is going to be different from the original. "Crank
" writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are a big reason for that, not just for their particular style but also for their approach, as Taylor made clear in a recent interview."We basically completely re-envisioned the whole start of the character, and actually had to re-engineer the origin of the Ghost Rider," he told Movieline during a chat at South By Southwest this week.
He continued, "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."
In the comics, stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to the demon Mephisto to save his cancer-stricken stepfather's life. When dear, old stepdad dies in a tragic motorcycle accident, Mephisto comes to collect. After Blaze refuses to play ball, his soul ends up bonded to another demon, Zarathos, whose powers turn him into the skeletal, fiery force of vengeance known as Ghost Rider.
Whatever your opinion of the origin story may be, there's no denying that it has been long-established. Movieline probed Taylor on this point, asking about the challenges of re-introducing the character when audiences are so familiar with him, both from the comics and the original film.
"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," Taylor explained. "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 Ghost Rider the way that he is."
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