Ghost Rider 2 Gearing Up For Production
Variety is reporting that Columbia Pictures is gearing up to get
Ghost Rider 2 in theaters, pushing for
Batman Begins writer David S. Goyer to script the sequel to the 2007 Nicholas Cage-starring film. Speaking of Cage, he is expected (but not confirmed) to return for the sequel, having
already proclaimed his desire to do so.
Though Goyer has yet to sign-on officially, word is that the next Ghost Rider will be based on a script that Goyer wrote years ago for the character. Details are sketchy on what that script involves, or whether or not
Ghost Rider 2 will be an actual sequel to the 2007 film, or more akin to the quasi-reboot Cage described earlier this year.
Ghost Rider 2 will be produced by former Marvel head Avi Arad, Michael De Luca and Steven Paul, with Gary Foster serving as executive producer.
As Variety points out, it’s no real surprise to hear that
Ghost Rider 2 is trying to “rev itself” into production; every third-party studio which currently owns a Marvel property is thinking along those same lines, now that
Disney has partnered with Marvel. The studios know that if they don’t show any signs of forward progress on their owned properties, Disney/Marvel will have the right to reclaim them and develop them under their own banner, laughing all the while as the box office cash comes rolling in.
That dreaded fear has prompted the major studios to you-know-what rather than get off the pot, and currently in development alongside
Ghost Rider 2 are:
- FOX: Fantastic Four Reboot, Daredevil Reboot, Wolverine 2, X-Men 4, New Mutants, X-Men: First Class & X-Men Origins: Magneto
- SONY: Spider-Man 4 (and 5)
- UNIVERSAL: Namor The Sub-Mariner
- PARAMOUNT: Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America
Again,
Ghost Rider 2 is still in the early planning stages; no confirmation that Goyer will write it or that Cage will star in it. No word yet if Ghost Rider writer/director Mark Steven Johnson will be brought back, or if the studio will tap a new director to helm the sequel.
Source:
Screenrant