Nov 5 2009 'Ghost Rider 2' is Darker, Still with Nicolas Cage

Yeah, someone still thinks it's a good idea to make another movie about Nicolas Cage riding a motorcycle and sometimes having a flaming skull head.

Screenwriter David Goyer recently talked to MTV about the project, and made sure to drop the superhero movie buzzword, "darker," so that we might think Ghost Rider is somehow going to be the next Dark Knight:

"It's not exactly a reboot," said Goyer, who's currently hard at work on his "FlashForward" television series. "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.'"

The "Ghost Rider" sequel is planned to "roll before cameras next year," according to Goyer, who also said that Nicolas Cage is currently still attached to the lead role of Johnny Blaze.

"This story picks up eight years after the first film," said Goyer. "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."

A darker, more existential Ghost Rider? Sorry, but that already exists, guys:

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Oct 9 2008 'The Unborn' Trailer Will Make You Scared to Exit the Womb Alone

If blind people protested Blindness because it suggested the sightless were incompetent and savage, anyone who had a twin die in the womb with them should protest The Unborn for the implication that your dead twin will somehow continue to age into a creepy 10-year-old, then come back and haunt you and demand that you birth them:

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Oct 8 2008 All Those Batman Rumors MIGHT Not Be Accurate

Dark Knight screenwriter David Goyer recently spoke to MTV about all the rumors of casting, story, and the involvement of Christopher Nolan circling the next Batman movie. Basically (literally) he says it's all bullshit:

Whether it’s that Chris Nolan has signed on, and will start pre-production early next year, or that Johnny Depp and Philip Seymour Hoffman will play the villains, or that Cher (Cher!) is lining up to wear Catwoman’s claws, there’s one thing that each and every supposed scoop has in common, “Batman Begins” and “Dark Knight” storyman David Goyer told MTV News:

“It’s all B.S.,” he said. “ALL of it.”

That means, no, Nolan has not signed on (yet). No, there is no casting, let alone TALK, of villains, and, no, nobody is certain to return.

“Chris and I haven’t even talked about it. He quite understandably is taking a long, long vacation and wants to purge himself,” Goyer said.

His choice of words is interesting: "long, long"... " "purge"...

Sounds to me like someone is hinting that they're adapting the Batman comic The Long Halloween into a film with America's Funniest Home Videos' and Dancing with the Stars' Tom Bergeron (berge sounds sort of like purge) as the Riddler. For some reason no other blogs seem to have caught that, but I'm picking up what you're laying down, David Goyer.

Sep 28 2007 Some Other Crap That Happened...

- Jessica Biel decided to pass on a role in Justice League of American, meaning the actress won't be wearing the Wonder Woman outfit. Guess it's back to drawing Jessica Biel wearing the Wonder Woman outfit. [EW]

- Jackass's Steve-O mentioned to Howard Stern that he's resting up for a third film in the series, which will start shooting in January. This means no hanging things from his scrotum until after the new year. [/Film]

- David Goyer, writer of Batman Begins, Blade, Dark City, The Crow: City of Angels, will direct Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire. His parents and teachers pray this "dark and stormy vampire thing" is just a phase. [Variety]

- Wes Anderson's first film, Bottle Rocket, is finally getting the high-end DVD treatment it deserves with Criterion re-releasing it in their usual glory. It's now officially pretentious and cool to like it. [MTV]

- Sir Ben Kingsley announced plans to play the emperor who built the Taj Mahal in memory of his late wife. It's all part of Kingsley's greater plan to play every historical Indian guy. [Reuters]