Post by Admin on Apr 7, 2018 1:13:29 GMT
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Nicolas Cage Says Any Ghost Rider Reboot Would Need to be R-Rated
Ghost Rider might not be the brightest spot in Marvel cinematic history, but according to Nicolas Cage it could have been. The actor has revealed that the movie was originally set to be much darker, a hard-R-rated take on one of the most disturbing characters in Marvel’s heroic pantheon. Cage still thinks that vision of Ghost Rider can work, but it is going to need that R rating to shine.
“Y’know, Ghost Rider was a movie that always should’ve been an R-rated movie,” Cage said in an interview with Joblo. “David Goyer had a brilliant script, which I wanted to do with David and for whatever reason they just didn’t let us make the movie. But that movie is a still a movie that should be made, not with me obviously, but it should be an R-rated movie-heck, Deadpool was R-rated and that did great. Ghost Rider was designed to be a scary superhero with an R-rating and edge and they just didn’t have it worked out back then.”
Cage’s observation about R-rated superhero movies in the modern climate is right on the money. Recent films like Deadpool and Logan have embraced an R rating and found great success in taking that leap, likely because their character, scripts and subject matter contained therein called for it. Likewise, a Ghost Rider movie about a servant of Hell who dispenses righteous justice sounds like the kind of movie that could float an R rating.
While Cage got two outings as the hog-riding hero in Ghost Rider (2007) and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011), there has been no talk about the character hitting the big screen since. Ghost Rider’s last appearance was on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. where the character was played by Gabriel Luna.
(via Bloody Disgusting)