Ghost Rider

Posted: 20.12.2005 23:01

Die seit mehr als vier Jahren kursierende Marvel-Comic-Adaption "Ghost Rider" soll nun ab Januar 2005 in Australien in Angriff genommen werden. Columbia sowie Drehbuchautor und Regisseur Mark Steven Johnson ("Daredevil ") planen in den neuen Central City Studios in Melbourne zu realisieren. Die Story dreht sich um einen Stuntmotorradfahrer, der bei Nacht zum rächenden Ghost Rider in Skelett-Outfit mutiert. Nicolas Cage ist für die Titelrolle vorgesehen, Jon Voight für eine weitere. Das Studio wurde bisher hauptsächlich für heimische TV-Produktionen genutzt. Die aufwändige US-Produktion wäre das größte Projekt, das in Victoria realisiert worden wäre.
blickpunkt:Film

Kinostart USA: 04.08.2006
Kinostart Deutschland: 28.09.06

Hier gibt es ein Bild des "Ghost Rider Hell Cycles":
http://www.superherohype.com/news/featuresnews.php?id=2834

Hier gibt es den Trailer:
mms://205.178.146.40/191121/ghstrdrteasr.wmv

Besuch am Set

SET VISIT: Nicolas Cage on Ghost Rider!
Source: Andrew Weil
June 16, 2005

Next year, Sony Pictures will bring Marvel's Ghost Rider to the big screen. The action-thriller stars Nicolas Cage as a motorcycle stuntman named Johnny Blaze who agrees to let his body become host to a vengeful spirit -- becoming a bike-riding demon in the process -- to secure the safety of his true love, to be played by Eva Mendes. Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil) wrote and is directing the film, which also stars Wes Bentley, Matt Long, Sam Elliott, Peter Fonda and Donal Logue.

Cage talked to ComingSoon.net/SuperheroHype.com about the anticipated comic book adaptation on the Australian set. Looking very trim with short black hair, Cage wore a rather large cowboy hat during the interview and seemed very excited about his current undertaking of Johnny Blaze.

Q: When we talked to you at the National Treasure junket you weren't 100 percent sure about this project, whether it was the script or the filmmakers.

Cage: It was always the script. It was always a matter of trying to get the script to a place that I felt comfortable with.

Q:What element did it gain?

Cage: It was mostly different aspects of the effects that I felt were being diminished in earlier drafts and I thought it could be brought up, enhanced so that the movie would be more fun to watch. I just wanted to make sure that they were preserved.

Q: What do you think about the trends of comic book movies?

Cage: Well, I've always thought that the comic book film would be wonderfully entertaining for audiences, because it taps into the fantasy world more than just straight up violence. And I had no doubt when the first Batman came out, because of the title and the character, that was going to be a sensational-- a very exciting movie to watch, combined with the technology that we have today, that you can take these fantasies that many of us grew up on and really bring them to the big screen. You have marvelous entertainment. Comic books to me are modern mythology, and so it taps into all sorts of psychological and soulful levels for audiences in a positive way, in a fantasy element as opposed to blood and guts, gore fests.

Q: Seems like this is a really CGI heavy movie. How is that working?

Cage: I've always enjoyed working with effects. I like any aspect that's creative, and Kevin Mack, who's directing the visual effects, is a very creative man and a very interesting person to talk to. So, to me, it's just stimulating to be around it, to participate. I want to, after the production is finished shooting here, I want to go to where they're working on the effects and say hello and see what they're doing with all the painting and how they're going to make the fire work, because fire is, you probably know, the most difficult of all the digital effects to pull off. Fire and water, but even more so fire.

Q: How have your worked with Mark on developing the character and what input did you have?

Cage: I was concerned that this wasn't sort of your typical hero. I wanted to approach it from the point of view of someone who is beleaguered by this contract of selling his soul to the devil. So if you were somebody that was experiencing a great deal of pain, like in a dental chair you try to relax by listening to dentist's music or things like that, so I'm trying to play Johnny Blaze more in that direction than the hard drinking and smoking bad ass. I'm playing him more as someone who, he's made this deal and he's trying to avoid confronting it, anything he can do to keep it away from him.

Q: Does the stunt riding play into that?

Cage: Yeah. I think anything like that is a form of escape. Also, the stunt riding keeps him connected to his father, who's passed away. So there's a version of being able to keep that relationship going when he's jumping, because that's what his father taught him.

Q: How familiar were you with the different iterations of the character and what appealed to you about him specifically?

Cage: The main thing that appealed to me about the character was that it was dealing with very complicated spiritual issues. And for a comic book, that to me seemed different than all the others. I have a line in the movie that we worked on in the movie where I say I'm the only one that can walk in both worlds. And Ghost Rider really is that, when you think about it. Spider-Man doesn't go into the supernatural or the spiritual world. Superman doesn't. Batman doesn't. But Ghost Rider really walks this dimension between two different worlds, and to me that is interesting. I find all that fascinating. I've always had an interest in the possibility of ghosts and the possibility of things that are in the unknown that we don't really comprehend or understand. So that made it more exciting for me. The other idea, that you can take a negative and turn it into a positive. How do you take this terrible mistake of making a deal with the devil and how do you take this curse and turn it into something good? Which, to me is unusual for a comic book based movie. It's a pretty deep concept. And I was reading it when I was 10 years old. So that's pretty heavy stuff for kids to be reading.

Q: Ghost Rider can't exist without violence, so where do you see that element in the film?

Cage: Well, he's the devil's bounty hunter. One of his rules is that he will never take a human being's life. But he will go after demons, other demons, and this movie's loaded with what they call The Hidden, which are these elemental demons that Mephistopheles, or Black Heart, Mephistopheles' son, is using, and so the Ghost Rider goes into battle with them more than the people.

Q: How does he battle them?

Cage: He has these wonderful abilities, like hellfire and the chain that he can use and swing, and then he has the penance stare, where you can look at someone and make them review every bad, horrible thing they've ever done to anybody and then feel it and feel the pain of all their mistakes and sins and basically reduce you to a human jellyfish.

Q: How is it riding the Hell Cycle?

Cage: I only rode the chopper, Grace. And also the stunt cycle. It's a Buell. They're both really terrific. The Hell Cycle, only the Ghost Rider rides that. That's the other thing. His bike transforms too, and turns into a demon hell cycle. But yeah, that's not much of a bike to really ride. You have to really know what you're doing on that. I want to add, though, there is a lot of humor in the movie. We've managed to really put a great deal of humor. Just character building humor. There's the relationship between Johnny Blaze and his best friend, Mack, is an interesting dynamic. Just humor about dealing with the irony of his situation.

Q: How did you prepare physically, mentally or perhaps even spiritually before you took this role?

Cage: Well, I'm not kidding. I was in Africa shooting a movie called Lord of War, and we went to this place in the middle of the desert to shoot for about a week, and -- trying to remember what happened exactly, what was the name of the place?-- anyway, I don't remember the exact name. But there weren't a lot of people there. And I was stuck there and I was driving home in a van, there was a cobra in the road. And I said, Let's back up; let's look at it. So we backed it up and the cobra got up like that on its hind, whatever, it doesn't have legs, but tail, and attacked my car. And I was shocked, and I never got that image out of my head. And then shortly after that, I started eating less portions. I stopped imbibing as much, I didn't go out as much, didn't have as many cocktails. And I just kind of worked out a lot more, and got ready for this role. So I think it had something to do with this cobra.

Q: A near death experience?

Cage: Something like that. Or just, he had this look in his eyes like; you got a lot of responsibility don't blow it. I could take you right now, but I'm here to warn you. Get your sh*t together.

Q: Do you remember what your first exposure to comic books was and do you read any today?

Cage: My first experience with comic books was The Incredible Hulk. And I was living in Long Beach, California. I must have been 7 or 8 and I liked the color of it, the imagination of it. I liked the world that I could escape into. And then I started to read plenty of them and look at them. And Ghost Rider, I had the first one. I remember looking at that as well because it was such a marvelous iconic image, this black leather bike rider with a flaming skull for a head. I didn't understand what it was about, but I loved the way it looked. So he was an interesting icon for me. Those are my earliest memories.

Q: How is it working with Peter Fonda?

Cage: It's interesting because when I think of Peter Fonda I think of this 1960s icon. Captain America. But I've been doing this for 25 years, and he's been doing it for 40 years. And it was just odd to me that there's only a 15 year spread, and yet I see him as this 60s icon. And then I thought, wow, but we're not that far apart. It's like, I started to feel thrilled and yeah, thrilled and dated. I felt thrilled and dated.

Q: This might be a semi-personal question. How did it feel to sell your comic book collection?

Cage: Well, I had a bad experience, which, you know; I was-- what's the right thing to say? I was robbed. And they took my best ones. They took Action 1 and Detective 27 and Detective 1. And now today they're worth who knows what. But I thought to myself, because I'm not the kind of person that wants to take comics and leave them in a safe somewhere. I'd rather put them on the wall and really enjoy them and look at them. But after that happened I thought maybe it's better not to own them, just to enjoy them from afar, and I sold them.

Q: That must have been tough to do that.

Cage: You know, it was and it wasn't. I feel like no one really owns anything anyway and it's time for someone else to enjoy them and have them. Now, obviously, whatever I was doing it wasn't good enough because they're missing. So I decided that maybe someone else should have them.

Q: Given how dark the material is, and the fact that you're trying to interpolate some humor into it, how difficult is it to manage those elements?

Cage: That came naturally to me. I think that heavy material is inherently--I know this is going to sound strange--but it can lend itself very easily to humor. Because I think people, when they're in heavy occupations, you look at paramedics or cops, they have the blackest humor. But it's a way of coping with the situation. I guess that's the only way I can answer that. I'm just thinking about what I said before about being thrilled and dated. Yeah, because I was in the 80s. I was doing Valley Girl, and he was doing Captain America in Easy Rider, so I felt we were both somehow symbolic of a time, of a period, of a time capsule.

Q: Are you signed on for sequels?

Cage: That remains to be seen. I'd have to see the movie and see how it comes together.

Q: Can you say something about Next?

Cage: Lee Tamahori is directing, it's based on a Philip K. Dick short story called The Golden Man. I play a man who has the gift of pre-vision. He can see what's going to happen to him very quickly into the future and he's being chased by the FBI so they can put him up on a TV set and help them find bombs and things like that. And he's trying to avoid that from happening to him.

Darsteller Gender: Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 596

Chilliges Bike rolleyes

Nicolas Cage find ich auch ganz in Ordnung für die Rolle, also ich denke mal, dass der Film auch nicht schlecht wird, obwohl ich mir den nicht im Kino anschauen würde.

Posted: 21.12.2005 00:59

Ich warte erstmal den Trailer ab, bevor ich Ihn abschreibe.

Nicolas Cage wäre für mich ein Grund, Ihn mir anzusehen, weil er einfach ein sehr guter Schauspieler ist.

Posted: 27.12.2005 04:00

Bonus Ghost Rider Special Effects Clip!
Source: Superhero Hype!, December 22, 2005

In addition to the big reveal on the official website, Ghost Rider writer and director Mark Steven Johnson has provided Superhero Hype! with an exclusive bonus special effects clip.

You can download the new QuickTime clip of Ghost Rider here:
http://downloads.comingsoon.net/GR_Point.mov

Posted: 22.05.2006 01:08

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Scooper "LuckyWan" has been snooping around Fox Studios in Sydney, and came across some pretty cool stuff relating to that GHOST RIDER flick they filmed in Melbourne a year or so back. You know -- the one with the impossibly tight security allowing practically no info to get out whatsoever. Here's what our man had to say:
The villain in Blackheart played by Wes Bently (the kid obsessed with plastic bags in American Beauty) and he seemed to be a very over-the- top villain. His cronies are all evil versions of the elements. One is made of dirt and worms, another seems like liquid while another is a ghost or air. They are all very comic book like as well. Blackheart sent his cronies to get the Ghost Rider and steal something back so they could have all the souls on Earth and Mephisto could get none. In one scene, he takes down a whole biker bar by himself. Reminded me much of Terminator's opening scene.
Now, Ghost Rider is freaking awesome. They really nailed the look, sound and tone of this. Much better efforts than Daredevil. The flaming skull was unbelievable looking and they were still months from finishing all the effects on the film. His bike is even cooler and responds when he whistles for it. Of coarse it leaves a line of fire wherever he rides since the wheels are on fire. His weapon of choice is his chain that he wraps around his jacket. Think Indiana Jones, except that he ignites it on fire and kills ghosts instead of Nazis. One scene I saw has Ghost Rider roll up looking for Abigor (Ghost crony). This guy flies around like a cloud of black smoke. Its very cool looking. He knocks the shit out of Ghost Rider picks him up and slams him into a car. What really struck me was the way Ghost Rider got off the car. It looked like that very cheesy over-acting with the body that they use in Power Rangers and even in points of Daredevil. But they aren't going for Batman Begins here.
I watched another scene in which they meet Ghost Rider in a depot. He shows up and kicks some ass. They drive a semi into him, obviously thinking he's dead. He reappears naturally and grabs one of the baddies. He says "Look into my eyes", for all you who don't know, Ghost Rider's eye sockets allow you to relive every horrible sin you've ever committed. The voice effects on Ghost Rider were again PERFECT. It doesn't sound like it came from this world. It doesn't sound like Nick Cage. He makes the bad guy scream so horrifically, you almost have sympathy for him when Ghost Rider fire chains his ass apart.
If you liked Nick Cage in Con Air, you'll love him in Ghost Rider. I personally don't care for Mr. Cage's southern texas, cajun drawl. But! The only scene I saw with Nick as Johnny Blaze was in a police interrogation room. They police couldn't figure out how all these criminals were being incinerated while Johnny's tire tracks were there. They can't pin anything on him and it seems like Johnny himself doesn't remember becoming Ghost Rider. A cop lights a cigarrette and the flame extends a few inches, away from Johnny. They look at him and replies with something like "That was wierd." its a pretty funny scene. My only gripe with Nick Cage as Johnny Blaze is his age. He's not a late 20's or early 30's guy. He is still trying to be, with his gelled hair and leather jacket. The overall vibe was that he didn't fit the role as others might have.
The word around the office is that GHOST RIDER's trailer will be attached to X3.

aintitcool.com

Posted: 26.06.2006 16:17

Hier gibs 2 neue Trailer.

neue Bilder

Posted: 05.10.2006 15:48

Trailer - 107 MB

MfG

Maestro

Posted: 06.12.2006 15:16

Das neue, animierte Poster kann man sich hier ansehen:
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/ghostrider/blog/

Weitere Poster:
http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=13155

Posted: 23.01.2007 09:35

AMC's First Look at Ghost Rider

Posted: 20.02.2007 12:30

US-Kritiken:

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There are only a smattering of reviews for Sony-Columbia's Ghost Rider, starring Nicolas Cage in the title role based on the Marvel Comics superhero. Most of the reviews agree that the movie is, well, comical -- and often in unintentional ways. (Variations of the word "cheesy" appear in virtually all the reviews.) Writes Kyle Smith in the New York Post: "When we get a glimpse of [Cage] shirtless, his CGI-built torso is so ridiculously ripped that the effect is like one of those carnival attractions where you stick your head through the hole in the giant photo of a bodybuilder." Peter Howell in the Toronto Star remarks that the movie is "20 minutes too long and the special effects are cheesier than Mickey Mouse's lunch." But Bob Strauss in the Los Angeles Daily News suggests that it's Cage's "oddball" performance that makes the movie work. "Whether you like it, hate it or just don't get it, this at least makes Ghost Rider an intriguing, witty/nutso acting experiment from beginning to end," he writes. And Matt Weiss concludes in the Dallas Morning News that the movie "achieves an emotional resonance and sheer enjoyability that, like a fine wine, complements the accompanying cheese."

Gut gestartet ist er immerhin:

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$15.9 Million Opening for Ghost Rider!
Source: ShowBIZ Data February 17, 2007
Sony Pictures and Mark Steven Johnson's adaptation of Marvel Comics Ghost Rider, starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes, rode home with an estimated $15.9 million its opening Friday, about $600,000 more than Johnson's Daredevil opened with over President's Day weekend four years ago. With that impressive of an opening, Ghost Rider is looking likely to set a new record for a President's Day weekend opener if it hold up well enough to make over $45.1 million over the four-day weekend. Either way, it's likely to become Nicolas Cage's biggest opening movie to date by topping his 2004 hit National Treasure.

Posted: 02.03.2007 01:11

Was für eine Spaßgranate! cool

Sicher kann man ihn nicht mit Spiderman oder gar den X-Men vergleichen, aber unterhaltsam ist er allemal. Besonders die CGI sind grandios geworden, wenn der Rider mit seinem Bike durch die Gegend zieht schaut alles ziemlich stark aus. Einzig die böse Gegnerbande schaut aus wie direkt aus Buffy entsprungen ... rolleyes

Meine Meinung: 8 / 10

Posted: 07.06.2007 11:09

Ghost Rider - Extended auch in Deutschland
Veröffentlichung: 30.08.2007

Wie nicht anders zu erwarten hat Sony Deutschland für den DVD-Release des Filmes Ghost Rider die auch in den USA erhältliche Extended Version angekündigt.

Am 30.08.2007 wird die um 13 Minuten längere Fassung der Marvel-Comicverfilmung in den Videotheken stehen. Für den Verkauf ist bisher nur die Kinofassung angekündigt. Wobei man aber davon ausgehen kann, dass man die Extended Version auch in den Handel bringen wird.

Als Bonus wird Ghost Rider einen Audiokommentare und Trailer beinhalten. Weitere Extras wurden von Sony Deutschland noch nicht bekannt gegeben.

Quelle: SB.com

Posted: 11.06.2007 15:17

Schnittbericht Kino - Extendet

http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=4038

Posted: 14.06.2007 17:06

War'n cooler Film. Hät echt nicht gedacht, das Nicholas Cage das hinbekommt und so überzeugend wirkt. Aber es war ein gut gemachter Film.

Posted: 04.12.2007 18:04

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Ghost Rider 2 - Nicolas Cage hat Interesse an der Fortsetzung

"Ghost Rider", Nicolas Cage's ("Con Air", "The Rock - Fels der Entscheidung") Ausflug ins Genre der Comicverfilmungen, war wohl einer der kontrovers diskutiertesten Filme dieses Jahres. Ein Teil der Fans war hochzufrieden mit dem schrillen, auf Edel-Trash getrimmten Look des Flammenschädel-Films, ein anderer Teil der Zuschauer monierte die recht schmalbrüstige Inszenierung sowie Cage's schauspielerische Darbietung. Diese zwiespältigen Meinungen schlugen sich auch im Einspielergebnis der Marvel-Verfilmung nieder: bei Produktionskosten von 110 Mio. $ konnten weltweit ca. 228 Mio. $ eingespielt werden. Sicherlich keine Konkurrenz zu "Spider-Man", der Nr. 1 aus dem Hause Marvel, aber dennoch ein voller Erfolg für das Studio.

Cage, selbst großer Comic-Fan, betonte zumindest mehrfach, dass er großen Spaß an der Rolle sowie am Dreh gehabt habe; für ihn sei damit ein Traum in Erfüllung gegangen. Glaubt man seinem Statement gegenüber den Kollegen von 'Coming Soon', so wäre er auch bei Ghost Rider 2 auf jeden Fall wieder mit von der Partie:

"Alles was sie tun müssen, ist anzurufen und ich würde es lieben, wenn sie das täten. Das wäre ein Heidenspaß!"

Es scheint also nicht am Hauptdarsteller zu liegen, ob Fans mit der Fortsetzung des Films rechnen können, sondern einfach nur an der Frage, ob diese für das produzierende Studio 'Sony' finanziell lohnenswert ist. Cage, nicht gerade dafür bekannt, ein Fortsetzungs-Schauspieler zu sein, erklärte in dem Gespräch mit den Kollegen übrigens ebenfalls sein grundsätzliches Interesse an der Fortführung der "National Treasure" Reihe, deren storymäßige Zukunft er allerdings nicht nur in Amerika, sondern weltweit sieht.

(movie-infos.net)

Posted: 04.12.2007 18:07

Ich fand den ersten echt geil, freut mich dass da noch ein zweiter kommt smile

Posted: 09.02.2009 00:33

toller film, ärgere mich ja ein wenig, ihn nicht im kino gesehen zu haben naja

finde, dass nicolas cage und eva mendes eine ideale besetzung für den film sind biggrin

also: "let's ride" happy

Posted: 24.10.2009 01:00

Heute bei Amazon im Angebot:

Blu-ray EUR 9.97

MfG

Maestro

Posted: 03.12.2009 16:02

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Höllenritt: Nicolas Cage als "Ghost Rider" am Sonntag auf ProSieben

Nicolas Cage diesmal als ganz besonderer Charakterkopf: Mit einem flammenden Totenkopfschädel auf den Schultern streift er im Auftrag des Höllenfürsten persönlich auf seinem magischen Chopperbike durch die Welt, um eine alte Schuld gegenüber Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda) zu begleichen ... ProSieben zeigt "Ghost Rider" am Sonntag, 6. Dezember 2009, um 20.15 Uhr zum ersten Mal im Free-TV.

Um seinen Vater vor dem sicheren Tod zu retten, schloss der Motorrad-Stuntfahrer Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) in seiner Jugend einen Pakt mit dem teuflischen Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda). Viele Jahre später muss er seine Schuld einlösen. Denn indessen steckt Mephistopheles selbst in Schwierigkeiten. Sein eigener, mordlüsterner Sohn Blackheart (Wes Bentley) sucht nach einem sagenumwobenen Schriftstück seines Vaters, das ihn unsagbar mächtig machen würde. Der Ober-Dämon fürchtet um seine Macht und verwandelt deshalb Johnny zu seinem "Ghost Rider". Als martialischer Biker mit brennendem Totenkopf und Flammenpeitsche soll er gegen Blackheart antreten. Im Gegenzug verspricht Mephistopheles, Johnny seine Seele zurück zu geben. Allerdings gestalten seine neuen Pflichten als Dämonenkrieger Johnny sein offizielles Leben immer komplizierter. Besonders, als der Stuntman seine Jugendliebe Roxanne (Eva Mendes) wieder trifft ...

Hintergrund: Auch der "Ghost Rider" ist eine Kreatur aus dem Marvel-Universum. Ursprünglich war die Verfilmung des Comics bereits 2001 mit Johnny Depp vorgesehen. Eine Fortsetzung, ebenfalls mit Nicolas Cage in der Hauptrolle des flammenschädligen Dämons, ist für 2011 in Planung.

"Ghost Rider" (OT: "Ghost Rider") - Zum ersten Mal im Free-TV am 6. Dezember 2009 um 20.15 Uhr.

(ProSieben)

MfG

Maestro

Posted: 07.12.2009 16:24

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"Ghost Rider" reitet an die Spitze

Kalte Ohren im Winter sind out - stattdessen sind Superhelden mit brennenden Schädeln wie Marvels "Ghost Rider" gefragt: Mit 24,2 Prozent Marktanteil bei den 14- bis 49-Jährigen holte sich Nicolas Cage als höllischer Biker auf ProSieben die Prime-Time-Führung am Sonntag. Ebenfalls stark im Blockbuster-Doppel: Uma Thurman erreichte in "Kill Bill Vol. 1" im Anschluss 21,8 Prozent Marktanteil in der Zielgruppe. Perfekt lief es auch im Tagesmarktanteil: 16,0 Prozent bedeuteten Platz eins bei den 14- bis 49-Jährigen.

(ProSieben)

MfG

Maestro