Ghost Rider 2 Motors Ahead: Spirit of Vengeance may film this year
www.empireonline.com: Ghost Rider, motorcycle hero, may be riding through Europe with his head on fire sooner rather than later (ie. sometime this year), according to a Collider interview with producer Mike De Luca.
The tentatively titled Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is, as previously reported, an update by David Goyer of his own decade-old treatment, from the days when Stephen Norrington was sniffing around the franchise, and Mark Steven Johnson was still only the director of Grumpy Old Men.
De Luca says that, as GR is “a unique blend of theology and action”, the production team are liking Nic Cage’s idea to take the Flaming Skull to Europe: “we could avail ourselves of a lot of religious sites and history that aren’t available in the US. We want to be as fresh and new as we can get in terms of getting away from that pseudo-western thing.”
Ethan Hawke: Daybreakers is a subversive vampire movie
scifiwire.com: Some actors might get a call from their agent about starring in a modest-budget vampire movie written and to be directed by neophyte Australian brothers—and hang up faster than hell. But not Ethan Hawke. He got exactly that call about Daybreakers, co-directed by Peter and Michael Spierig (Undead). Hawke agreed to meet them at a New York City cafe near his home, heard their pitch, signed on and ventured to Australia for the shoot, and the resulting film opens today.
“To be honest, when I got this script it was 2007,” Hawke said in an exclusive telephone interview. “I was doing a Tom Stoppard play in Lincoln Center, and the play was about mid-19th-century Russian radicals. Twilight (and True Blood) hadn’t come out yet. So this seemed like the most original damn idea I’d ever heard of. It seemed so retro to do a vampire movie. If I’d gotten the script today, I’d probably be thinking, ‘No way I’m doing a vampire movie.’ But the funny thing is, whatever the given genre—if it’s a cop movie or a western or a vampire movie—these things are never new. It’s just whether or not you have something new to say.”
And the Spierig brothers, Hawke felt, had something worthwhile to say. “They are these two twins from Australia, and they have the same kind of glint and passion in their eyes for movies that all the best directors I’ve ever worked with do,” said Hawke, a two-time Oscar nominee. “They had something original that they wanted to do with this thing, and I liked it.”
It’s kind of difficult for the fans when some of the original cast members don’t come back, and it changes the mood of the movie sometimes. So lets hope that changes to the script and cast still draw the attention of its fans. What do you think od a sequel? Did you watch the first one? Are you a Ghost Rider fan?
I guess that people wasn’t expecting so many vampire movies at a time, some started there projects before all the vampire madness began. But still, Daybreakers is different and hopefully it will give good things to talk about. Will tou be seeing the movie?
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