Rated 1.5 out of 5 by the audience and 1.8 by the press, this movie adapted from the Marvel comics everyone agreed: it was not good! Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance went royally wrong, to the point where the film studio lost the rights.
In late 2010 and early 2011, while the film was in full production, a legal battle raged over who created the comic book character (That Marvel will win). At the same time, the Sony studio that owns the cinematic rights to Ghost Rider risk of losing them If the film is not produced quickly. So they decide to start a new adventure of demon biker.
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The first Ghost Rider, released in 2007 starring Nicolas Cage, wasn’t very well received, but made a lot of money. In addition, for this sequel, which was launched in order to retain the rights to the superhero, Sony decided to cut the budget drastically. Which is always a good idea for a special effects movie…
From the first film’s 110 million, Spirit of Vengeance had to settle for 58 million, including 7 million for Nicolas Cage’s salary alone. For direction, we’re not looking back at Mark Steven Johnson from the first film and co-writer with Ben Affleck on Daredevil, but instead opting for Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the duo behind Hyper Tension.
The result does not live up to expectations at all, with AlloCiné viewers criticizing the film for Nicolas Cage’s acting (37%), poor script, low-level special effects and dirty staging (40%). Ghost Rider 2 grossed $132.5 million worldwide, nearly $100 million less than the first. But this failure will have positive consequences for Marvel as a whole.
The movie that brings the biker home
After the failure of Ghost Rider 2, Kevin Feige, the boss of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, revealed in May 2013 that the rights to the character had previously been held by Sony, but also by Punisher (Lionsgate) and Blade (New Line). in his nag (Daredevil, formerly at 20th Century Fox, previously returned for a while) and that he can use them as he sees fit in the Avengers universe.
Daredevil and the Punisher will have a Netflix series, the Blade movie project will be delayed without a date after a five-year battle to make it happen, and Ghost Rider won’t be appearing on the big screen, but on the small one, in Agents of SHIELD. series played by Gabriel Luna in the fourth season of the Marvel show.
Source: Allocine
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