Ghost Rider 2, Daredevil Reboot Confirmed

Published by Jeff Leins on: September 24th, 2009

Columbia Pictures is moving forward with a sequel to Ghost Rider starring Nicolas Cage and is in discussions with David S. Goyer to write the script.

Goyer has plenty of experience with comic book properties, and in the better half of the genre (not the side with Ghost Rider).  He wrote the scripts for all three Blade movies, the story for both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and penned the X-Men Origins: Magneto script that’s still waiting for a green light.  The studio will actually be using a Ghost Rider script written by Goyer years ago (2000), so plans could move ahead very quickly on a darker, more violent version.

The original Ghost Rider was written by director Mark Steven Johnson, and I think most will agree that it sucked.

The recent activity on both characters is a result of Disney’s acquisition of Marvel for $4 billion last month.  If the studios want to keep the names, they have to show movement and that’s just what Columbia has been doing.  First they hired a writer for a fifth and sixth Spider-Man and then Ghost Rider 2 with the return of Cage (though there were rumblings back in January).

Buried in the same Variety article is word of a pending Daredevil reboot “quietly developing” at Fox.  Well, not so quietly anymore.  Fox still believes there’s money to be made from the blind hero without Affleck.  Seeing how they treated Wolverine doesn’t give me much hope though.  They’re also looking at rebooting Fantastic Four and still working on that Silver Surfer spin-off, if that ever happens.