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Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance Discussion, Pics etc Till Release

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^ I'm sorry, but Nicholas Cage's turds are better than Keanu Reeves.
 
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Not if they're flaming and ride motorcycles. Although, wouldn't that be a sight to see!
 
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Sony has decided to cut the budget in HALF for the Ghost Rider sequel. That is huge. Has there been a rewrite? I can't imagine budgeting for one script and then having your budget cut and be expected to shoot the same script.
Sony Pictures has reportedly cut its budget for the sequel "Ghost Rider: The Spirit Of Vengeance" from $135 million to a much leaner $75 million reports The Wrap.
The studio has apparently so much of its capital tied up in the "Spider-Man" reboot, "Men in Black 3" and David Fincher's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" adaptation that Hyde Park Entertainment has had to step in to co-finance the project and will take international rights.
It doesn't sound like, just that money is tight. That being the case it seems like LOTS of money is spent on films that could be considered wasted money.
 
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^^^
Fixed it, used to FOX doing things like that.
 
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The scope and quality of the FX will probably take a hit. They'll likely have to lose some action set pieces altogether, or drastically scale them down.
 
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Blaze will now have a BMX bike and his flaming skull look will be achieved by holding a match behind his head. And Nic Cage will have a dead gerbil on his head. Though that will probably look more convincing than the rug he had in the first movie.
 
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And this time he'll play Blaze similar to how he played his H. I. McDounaugh character from Raising Arizona
 
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They can save money by reusing some of the set pieces of previous Nicolas Cage movies.

A prisoner transport plane crashes on Alcatraz, where there happens to be a church with pigeons flying around. And underneath Alcatraz is where the Free Masons hid many of history's treasures.
 
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The scope and quality of the FX will probably take a hit. They'll likely have to lose some action set pieces altogether, or drastically scale them down.
I'm thinking they have to maintain or improve the flaming skull/bike FX where they can. Reducing any prolonged action scenes seems like a compromise that is plausible. The upside is sometimes those can drag on for a bit long anyway. Almost as if to do them just cause they can, not that it serves any purpose other than to be flashy.

I tighter character piece(hoping that is possible) with shorter action scenes isn't a bad trade off imo.
 
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The report here on Darkhorizons confuses me a bit. I'm not sure if it means that the budgetof the movie will remain at $75m, period. Or if Sony is only reducing the amount by which it is financing the movie, with another studio making up the shortfall, in return for which they get the international rights. Hopefully the latter.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/18617/-ghost-rider-sequel-budget-cut-in-half
 
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^^^^
That does sound possible. If the back portion is traded off in financing for international rights it means SONY's investment is reduced. Therefore meaning it is likely to recoup quicker, especially if the film does modestly well again.
 
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Filming began yesterday.
Filming starts on the Transfagarasan highway

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor announced via Twitter that filming started on Monday for the February 17, 2012 release:

principal photography on ghost rider SOV begins today!!!

idris elba, helicopters, motorcycles, russian arm and the the Transfagarasanul.... HOLY SH*T

Seems Idris Elba gets the first bit of action out of the gate with principal photography. Should only be a matter of weeks I suppose until the first leaked spy photos are released.

The rest of that little piece mentioned a stunt rider standing in for Nic Cage. Maybe if nothing else we can get an idea of any wardrobe changes they might have tweaked when/if we should see some pics.
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What happened to the chopper?
 
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What happened to the chopper?
I'd imagine that since some time has passed from the first film that Johnny has gone through a few bikes. I do like the look of this bike and will be curious to see how/if, like the chopper, they mold the GR bike off of this one.
It looks cool and badass to me.

Ghost-Rider-2-Cage-Checks-Out-His-Bike-512x304.jpg
 
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A few more shots on set but what makes this image worth noting is that this is the first pic to include a young Danny Ketch! Looks like he may be 12/13ys old. Clearly setting up a situation to continue at some point with Danny should the movie find success again or when Cage wants out.
we get to see our first look at the young actor playing Danny Ketch, son of Ciaran Hinds' The Devil, in the movie.

JohnnyDanny-GR2.jpg
 
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I wonder how long the post production will take on this movie. The 1st Ghost Rider was in post for over a year, I think, because it took a lot of time to do the flaming skull effects with so little money.
 
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I hate movies that spend so much fo there time on a love interest only to delete that character from history in sequels. Heres an original idea can we not have a love interest :eek:

Well seeing as how the first one had two...
oh, that's right. She just magically changed races in the middle, from Euro-Cuban to Afro-Cuban. I guess to the people in Hollywood one latin is just the same as another.
 
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