David Goyer says that Ghost Rider 2 is not exactly a reboot:

It’s not exactly a reboot. I hate to say it’s more realistic, because he’s got a flaming skull for a head, but it’s a bit more stripped down and darker. It’s definitely changing tone. What ‘Casino Royale’ was to the Bond movies, hopefully this will be to ‘Ghost Rider.’

This story picks up eight years after the first film. You don’t have to have seen the first film. It doesn’t contradict anything that happened in the first film, but we’re pretending that our audience hasn’t seen the first film. It’s as if you took that same character where things ended in the first film and then picked it up eight years later—he’s just in a much darker, existential place.

My script is out there on the Internet. We’re not changing much from it. It’ll be significantly the same script.

Nicolas Cage is still attached to get his face melted off as Johnny Blaze.

Since I haven’t bothered to look for the script, I don’t know what the sequel is all about. But it can’t be much worse than the first one. It’s not that it was horribly offensive or that it drifted too far from it’s source material. No, the first one was just boring. Bo. Ring. I don’t know how you can make driving a flaming motorcycle down the side of a building with a flaming chain whip boring, but that movie managed to put me to sleep.

If they’re pretending that we didn’t see the first one, I’ll pretend I didn’t see the first one. I’d like to see a Ghost Rider movie that didn’t put me to sleep. Casino Royale with a flaming skull head sounds like it could be fun. Filming begins sometime next year.

Source: MTV

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