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Ghost Rider 2...Planned for Years!

David Goyer talks Ghost Rider...


The plan is to "polish" the script before they start production. Why the need to polish it? Apparently the plan is change the movie from an R-rated movie to a PG-13 one. I'm sure right away you're probably groaning. But the reality of it is if it's R-rated, less people will be able to go and less money it would make.

What do you think? Will this be better than the first? Does the fact that it's PG-13 make that much of a difference to you?"
2 Yes
4 No
SoratheKey
10/2/2009
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25 Comments

Of course it'll be better than the first. Horse Sh*t is better than the first, the point is, will it be a good movie?
supermarioworldE - 10/3/2009, 12:06 AM
..I liked the first movie. But I know nothing about the character so Eh. NICHOLAS CAGE FTW. Sometimes.
SupahPhreak - 10/3/2009, 12:12 AM
Umm, someone already made an article about this topic. It's on the front page.
MultiPurposePoni - 10/3/2009, 6:01 AM
it better for cuz i cant go see a r-rated movie with out an adult
flames809 - 10/3/2009, 8:22 AM
Wow this looks familiar..lmao :P
teabag - 10/3/2009, 8:26 AM
Everything is quiet, too quiet!
ASSASSIN666 - 10/3/2009, 8:54 AM
Goyer - i am not a fan...you really sucked a$$ with blade trinity...it hurt my soul...


chek my spidey 4 fan fic plzz
Anil Rickly - 10/3/2009, 10:14 AM
GR2 does not need to be rated R. The first GR movie was great as a PG-13. Marvel is trying to draw a big audience which includes younger viewers. Putting it in an R category will hurt their reputation in making good clean movies and not the gory or harsh ones with the strong profanity. Punisher: Warzone is a good example in why it did not do so well. I enjoyed the movie and it was closer to the comics that the 1st Punisher with Thomas Jane and better in my opinion, but look at the difference between the PG-13 vs R. Punisher earned $33,664,370 whereas War Zone only earned $8,050,977. I prefer a PG or PG-13 vs an R and especially in any of the Marvel movie. Spiderman is a clean movie and has earned 2.5 billion worldwide. Keep it clean and draw a bigger audience.
Hulk2008 - 10/3/2009, 10:28 AM
Hulk2008-The Punisher is an R-rated comic so it makes sense that they made an R-rated Punisher movie. I don't think the movie did well because the studio either didn't know how or chose not to market the movie as well as they could of. I do agree that an R rating needs to stay far away from lighter fare such as Spider-Man or Iron Man, but certain darker characters like Ghost Rider were never meant for kids in the first place and would probably do well at the box office and please more fans if they went with an R rating.
MatchesMalone - 10/3/2009, 10:47 AM
the only real problem w/first Ghost Rider was`that the fights weren't epic enough, so thats what they need to do for GR2, maybe even intro Danny Ketch
deadpool87 - 10/3/2009, 10:48 AM
the problem with ghost rider is Cage, a rushed to production screenplay, and the lack of a quality director with a passion for the material. nuff said.
gaikinger - 10/3/2009, 11:11 AM
gailkinger-I love Cage as an actor. GR2 will rock i think.
Hulk2008 - 10/3/2009, 11:28 AM
GR was never originaly an R rated comic...it was just as cheesy and family friendly as the rest of them....there's too much confusion between Blaze and Ketch and that showed in the first movie...that saying i hope this next one is great :P
teabag - 10/3/2009, 11:28 AM
MatchesMalone - I did like Ghost Rider, and it is funny you say it is darker which it is than the more popular movies such as IronMan, but yet for some reason I find the Dark Knight even darker and it was very successful for a PG-13 and my children enjoyed it. I am only saying that R rated movies keeps it more open for directors and producers to throw in strong profanity which I do not agree with. There are many movies that have had great success with little or no blood and no profanity. Look at the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Star Wars. I do hope that GR2 is scarier. Thats sound so cool! nuff for me .
Hulk2008 - 10/3/2009, 11:33 AM
Hulk2008-I was actually talking about the comic being dark, not the movie. The movie was a little too light for my GR tastes. I'm not saying it has to be a blood bath or the characters have to curse like sailors, but with the whole satannic vibe and Johnny Blaze being a hard-drinking, hard-smoking, hard-fighting biker guy, I don't necessarily think GR is one for the kiddies. I do agree that the Dark Knight movie was definitely darker than the Ghost Rider movie, but that's what Ghost Rider should aspire to be. There are also varying degrees of R as well. There is what's known as a "soft R" and "hard R". Showing a pair of tits will automatically get you an R rating without showing any gore or saying one curse word, or you can curse all you want and show violence in every scene and still get just an R rating. It essentially is the same rating, just with different standards as to why it received and R, so it's all relative. I guess my point is that Ghost Rider can be a fun and cool movie that could be shown to older kids while still taking itself a little more seriously than the first one did.
MatchesMalone - 10/3/2009, 11:47 AM
Man i need to catch up cus it sounds like they changed the character Matches@

I have the first 43 issues including the first spotlight run before he got his own mag and there was never a hint of a hard-drinking, "hard-smoking, hard-fighting biker guy"....he was more a whinger with a cocky head on his shoulders who put on a scary voice when he became GR cus he didnt know how to intimidate!!


:P
teabag - 10/3/2009, 12:15 PM
jensen ackles is my pick for captain america, but i always wondered how he'd do as ghost rider...
NJdevil12 - 10/3/2009, 1:47 PM
Yes if it's PG-13 I won't watch it.
Acerimmer1 - 10/3/2009, 3:50 PM
Infact after District 9 I will try and avoid PG-13 as much as possible. That film was for grown ups and it reminded me that PG-13 is for kids.
Acerimmer1 - 10/3/2009, 3:51 PM
In a PG-13 the story is deliberately weak so that kids can follow it.
Acerimmer1 - 10/3/2009, 3:54 PM
I think it's unfair to say that just because it's PG-13 means that it's going to suck.

It's basically saying, "I only watch MATURE things for MATURE people such as myself because I am MATURE!"

I mean, you look at stuff like TDK and T4, you can see that it's fairly easy to push the boundary enough where you can still have [frick]win moments without caring if there's blood and guts and sex and swearing. Just because they have gratuitous amounts of gore and nudity does NOT make a movie grown-up, adult, or mature. If anything, it's just as sophomoric as farts or hits to the groin.

I'm not watching these movies for shock or fap value. I want to enjoy a good story with good characters and good development, and if it's action then that, too. Action, not violence. That's all I'll be looking for in this movie. You can keep your boobs and decapitations.
MovieTheaterLad - 10/3/2009, 6:01 PM
I've never been a huge fan of Ghost Rider even in the comic books and the last crappy movie did little to change my mind so the only other CBM i care less about seeing than this is probably Magneto, lol!

Guys, dont forget to vote for who you want to see as Daredevil in my fan poll under "FEATURES"!!!
joshw24 - 10/3/2009, 8:28 PM
all the punishers where r rated
thedarkknight666 - 10/4/2009, 3:35 AM
If you had a gallon of Hagen Das, and stirred in one tea spoon of dog shit. You would have a gallon of Dog Shit.
TheJester - 10/5/2009, 6:18 AM
Putting an R rating on ANY comic book film from the Marvel or DC universes is the death sentence.

I do not want to see ANY comic book movie fail at the boxoffice, because even one weak performance makes it more difficult to sell comic book movies to investors beyond the major A-list characters.

There is no reason to make Ghost Rider 2 into an R-rated movie. You remove the cussing, keep him out of the strip clubs and it will do just fine.

I think that the more gritty, edgy remakes can come down the pike in about 15-20 years when the world movie-going audiences have been introduced to a lot of the characters we have followed for years.

I enjoyed Ghost Rider except for the lack of epic battles, which is pretty much my critique of most comic book movies so far. They just aren't giving us enough of the screen-blasting, city-shredding juggernaut versus dreadnought battles that I always imagined conflict between superheroes to be.

I would like to see FAR more carnage and chaos caused by these superhero/supervillain duels than the studios are giving us (do you hear what I am saying, Marvel and DC Studios??? MORE POWER! MORE VIOLENCE!! MORE DESTRUCTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES!!!)

'Nuff Said!
bropous - 10/5/2009, 7:25 AM

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