"Ghost Rider" sequel -- it's all about the deal

[ClarkKent_DC]

Here's an interesting piece from New York Magazine about plans for a sequel to Ghost Rider:  "Anatomy of a Deal: How Sony's Ghost Rider Came to Ride With Cage Again".

It basically describes a scenario in that nobody actually wanted to make a sequel to Ghost Rider out of interest in making the movie; Sony ordered it up just to keep the rights from reverting to Marvel -- which is now owned by Disney -- and Nicolas Cage is in it because he needs the money to keep the IRS off his back, and his latest flop The Sorcerer's Apprentice didn't help with that.

[Rich Lane]

The first movie was about the worst comic adaptation I can recall since the first Captain America movie back in the late 80s. If there's a plus side to this, I can't imagine a sequel being any worse.

[Rich Steeves]

Let's hope it's good in spite of itself...

[Philip Portelli]

I can't imagine it made enough money to warrant a sequel if Daredevil didn't!

[Cavaliere (moderator emeritus)]

Frankly, I liked the first film. I am not, however, a fan of the comicbook version.

[Figserello]

Philip Portelli said:

I can't imagine it made enough money to warrant a sequel if Daredevil didn't!

It probably made it's money in the end. Foreign markets, DVD, Directors cut, packaged with some other Marvel movie etc.

I bought my copy of Daredevil as some bargain release a few years after the movie, but that is still income to the studio.

But producers are leary of movies that don't bring in a respectable box office on first release. Not wow! enough for them.

I read on CBR that Gary Freidrich is currently suing Marvel, Sony etc for part of the profits as he contends that he still has part ownership of Ghost Rider.

That article is hilarious by the way, with Cage upset to be down to $10m a movie for 12 weeks work, and being so dismayed at his poverty that he goes off to a stylish Bahamas retreat for a holiday. Its a hard life, Nick!

[ClarkKent_DC]

Figserello said:

That article is hilarious by the way, with Cage upset to be down to $10m a movie for 12 weeks work, and being so dismayed at his poverty that he goes off to a stylish Bahamas retreat for a holiday. Its a hard life, Nick!

While he's down there, he can live it up on all the money he got paid for not making Superman Returns ...

[Doctor Hmmm?]

I didn't mind either Ghost Rider or Daredevil (director's cut, anyway). I picked up both DVDs cheap and went into them with zero expectations of them being any good (having already read the reviews). On that basis, I thought they were amiable timekillers. Sam Elliott alone was worth the price I paid for Ghost Rider.

[Doctor Hmmm?]

Insiders also tell us that Cage, needing to work to pay off his IRS debts and rebuild his fortunes, initially scoffed at Sony’s paltry $5 million offer to set his skull aflame once more.

Best. Line. Ever.

[Rich Steeves]

Well, DD did have a spinoff...

Philip Portelli said:

I can't imagine it made enough money to warrant a sequel if Daredevil didn't!

[Cavaliere (moderator emeritus)]

I may have liked Ghost Rider but I thought Daredevil was pretty (ahem) damn bad. And the spin-off, Elektra? Oh, my stars and garters that was terrible.