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Running time110 minutes(Original version)123 minutes(Extended cut)CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$110 millionBox office$228.7 millionGhost Rider is a 2007 American based on the. The film was written and directed by, and stars as, with, and in supporting roles.Ghost Rider was released on February 16, 2007 in the United States. The film was met with negative reviews from critics, but was a box office success, earning $228.7 million worldwide on a $110 million budget. Ghost Rider was released on, and on June 12, 2007. A sequel, titled, was released on February 17, 2012, with Cage reprising his role. Contents.Plot sends his of the damned, the, to retrieve the contract of San Venganza for control of a thousand corrupt souls.
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Seeing that the contract would give Mephistopheles the power to bring hell on Earth, the Rider refuses.In 1986, Mephistopheles reaches out to 17-year-old stunt motorcycle rider, offering to cure his father's cancer in exchange for Blaze's soul. The next morning, Blaze awakes to discover that his father's cancer is cured, but his father dies in a motorcycle stunt. Blaze accuses Mephistopheles of causing his father's death, but Mephistopheles considers their contract to be fulfilled and promises to one day see him again.Twenty-one years later, Blaze has become a famous stunt motorcycle rider. Blaze meets his lifelong sweetheart, now a news reporter, whom he abandoned after his father's death. He convinces her to attend a dinner date. Meanwhile, the son of Mephistopheles, comes to Earth, along with three fallen angels who bonded with the elements air, earth, and water. They are tasked to find the lost contract of San Venganza.
In response, Mephistopheles makes Blaze the new Ghost Rider and offers to return his soul if he defeats Blackheart, though Mephistopheles says he has no choice. Blaze is driven straight to the station, where he transforms into the Ghost Rider and kills the earth angel Gressil.
The next day, he meets a man called the, who seems to know the Ghost Rider's history. He tells Blaze that what happened was real, and it will happen again, especially at night when he is near an evil soul.When he arrives home, Blaze finds Simpson and reveals himself as the Devil's bounty hunter. Unconvinced, she walks away in disbelief. After a brief imprisonment for the murders that Blackheart committed, Blaze kills the air angel Abigor and escapes from the police. He returns to the Caretaker, who tells him of his predecessor, a who hid the contract of San Venganza.
At home, Blaze finds that Blackheart has killed his friend Mack and taken Roxanne captive. Blackheart threatens to kill her if Blaze does not deliver the contract.
Blaze uses the Penance Stare on Blackheart, a power that causes mortals to feel all the pain they have caused others, but it doesn't work since Blackheart has no soul.Blaze returns to the Caretaker and obtains the contract. The Caretaker reveals that he is Carter Slade. Slade tells Blaze that he is more powerful than his predecessors because he sold his soul for love as opposed to greed. Slade leads Blaze to San Venganza and gives Blaze a lever action shotgun before fading away.After killing the water angel Wallow, Blaze gives the contract to Blackheart. He quickly transforms into Ghost Rider to subdue Blackheart, but dawn arrives, and he is rendered powerless. Blackheart uses the contract to absorb the thousand souls into his body.
He attempts to kill Blaze but is distracted when Simpson uses Blaze's discarded shotgun to separate them. After Blaze shoots Blackheart with the shotgun, he moves in and uses his Penance Stare to render him catatonic, burning all the corrupt souls within Blackheart.Mephistopheles appears and returns Blaze his soul, offering to take back the curse of the Ghost Rider. Determined not to make another deal, Blaze declines, saying that he will use his power against him, and against all harm that comes to the innocent. Infuriated of being robbed of the power, Mephistopheles vows to make Blaze pay and disappears, taking Blackheart's body with him. Simpson tells Blaze that he got his second chance and kisses him.
Blaze rides away on his motorcycle, turning into the Ghost Rider.Cast. as, a motorcycle stunt rider, who is tricked into making a thinking that it will save his father from dying, and is subsequently transformed into a supernatural demonic soul hunter, the Devil's Spirit of Vengeance, the Ghost Rider. As his work for Mephisto continues, he hunts down the demons which have escaped from Hell. as young Johnny Blaze. as, Johnny's childhood love-interest, and current girlfriend who is a news reporter. as young Roxanne Simpson. as /, the illegitimate son of Mephisto, who wants to use the Contract of San Venganza in order to unleash on Earth.
as /, a former Ghost Rider, and an ally and mentor to Blaze. as Mack, a member of Johnny's team and his own impresario. as /, with whom Blaze makes a contractual deal in order to save the latter's father from cancer. Deceivingly, Mephistopheles causes Blaze's father to die the next day in a motorcycling accident.
Mephistopheles is in search for his illegitimate son, Blackheart, who seeks to overthrow him. The two race in search of the Contract of San Venganza, a binding note of 1,000 damned souls. as Barton Blaze, Johnny Blaze's deceased father, and former motorcycle stunt rider. as Captain Jack Dolan, a police captain. as Gressil, a Fallen Angel with earth-based powers, and one of Blackheart's minions. as Wallow, a Fallen Angel with water-based powers, and one of Blackheart's minions. as Abigor, a Fallen Angel with wind-based powers, and one of Blackheart's minions.
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Development began development for Ghost Rider as early as 1992 and were in discussions with potential distributors. In 1997 was listed as producer, with attached to write the script.
Developed a script and in May 2000 Marvel announced an agreement with Crystal Sky Entertainment to film Ghost Rider with actor attached as a producer. Production was scheduled to start in early 2001 with a budget of $75 million and expressing interest in the lead role. The following August, joined Crystal Sky to co-finance the film, which would be directed.
Producer approached on the possibility of playing Ghost Rider, but opted to cast him in instead. In June 2001, actor and Ghost Rider fan entered talks to be cast into the lead role, after having found out about Depp being a possibility for the role and contacted the director to express his own interest. Norrington would drop out within a few months due his commitment to Tick Tock and Cage eventually left the project as well.
By May 2002 sought to acquire rights to Ghost Rider in from Dimension Films following their success with. They brought to rewrite Goyer's script.In April 2003, under Columbia Pictures, director took over the helm for Ghost Rider with Cage returning for the lead role. Johnson, rewriting Salerno's script, was set to begin production of Ghost Rider in late 2003 or early 2004. But it was delayed to October 2003. Cage took a temporary leave of absence to film. Ghost Rider production was slated to tentatively begin in May or June 2004.Ghost Rider had again been delayed to begin in late 2004, but the lack of a workable script continued to delay production.
In January 2005, actor was cast as the villain, having been introduced to Johnson by, who had worked with the director in. Actress was also cast opposite Cage as. On February 14, 2005, Ghost Rider commenced filming in Australia at the. Then in March 2005, actor (who starred in ) was cast as the villain. Johnson originally planned to film before an audience at the, but instead opted to create a crowd using computer-generated imagery. The director also chose to film in the motorcycle district of. By June 2005, principal photography had been completed for Ghost Rider, which was set for a summer 2006 release.
In April 2006, the cast and crew performed last-minute reshoots in. Ghost Rider was originally scheduled to release on August 4, 2006, but the date was moved three weeks earlier to July 14, 2006. Sony changed the film's release date once more to February 16, 2007 to help relieve the studio's crowded 2006 calendar. Character portrayal Instead of a 'hard drinking and smoking bad ass' Johnny Blaze, Nicolas Cage decided to give him more depth. 'I'm playing him more as someone who.
Made this deal and he's trying to avoid confronting it, anything he can do to keep it away from him'. Cage also explained that Blaze's stunt riding was a form of escape and a way to keep him connected to his deceased father, who taught him to ride. Cage rode a motorcycle for Blaze's stunt cycle, and a heavily customized hardtail chopper named 'Grace' which transforms into the 'Hell Cycle'. The Hell Cycle's wheels, made of pure flames in the comics, were changed to be solid tires covered in flames in order to give the motorcycle more weight onscreen.The film's visual effects supervisor, and the visual effects team at handled the difficult task of creating computer-generated fire on a shot-by-shot basis.
Ghost Rider's flames were designed to become smaller and to display any other than rage. Kevin's Team at Imageworks also created computer-generated motorcycles, chains, water, black goo, dementors and buildings. To pull off such effects as the living morph where the hardtail chopper ('Grace') comes alive to become the 'Hell Cycle' Sony enlisted teams of animators, models, effects artists, lighters & 'Flame' artists. The department supervisors for these teams at Imageworks included Kevin Hudson, Brian Steiner, JD Cowels, Marco Marenghi, Joe Spadaro, Joanie Karnowski, Vincent Serritella & Patrick Witting. Patrick's team bore the brunt of the work as they created the fire using a custom pipeline that automated the set up starting with Maya animated geometry driving Maya Fluids, imported into Houdini and then rendered & composited on top of the live action plates. Patrick and his team set up the fire process and much of the front end automation was set up by Scott Palleiko and Joe Spadaro. The fire was then tweaked and manipulated to look and move believably by Patick's eleven man Houdini effects team.
All of this was enabled by effects producers Daniel Kuehn and the Digital Effects Supervisor Kee-Suk 'Ken' Hahn.The digital version of the hell cycle was modeled in detail by Kevin Hudson and based on the practical prop used in the film, it included animatable skeletal hands that came alive to wrap the gas tank during the supernatural transformation scene. The transformation scene was animated by Max Tyrie and finalized by Joe Spadaro. Each part of the 'Grace' geometry had to match up and morph with a piece of geometry on the 'Hell Cycle'The bullet time like scene where Ghost Rider on the 'Hell Cycle' jumps from a building cutting to slow motion with the flaming chain was the brainchild of animator Maks Naporowski., was looking for what he called 'shoe leather' to tie the two scenes together. Maks & Marco came up with this incredible concept that went on to become one of the most impressive scenes in the film & on the trailers.Ghost Rider's voice was manipulated by sound designer, who won an for. Davis filtered Cage's line readings through three different kinds of animal growls that were played backwards and covered separate frequencies.
Davis then amplified the dialogue through a mechanical volumizer. Director Johnson described the sound as a 'deep, demonic, mechanical lion's roar'. Music Ghost Rider: Original Motion Picture Soundtrackby.
I'am Ghost Rider, The Spirit of Vengeance! - Ghost Rider Early YearsDan 'Danny' Ketch and his sister were born to and, but were given away to a widowed woman named when they were very young. The two grew up only knowing Mrs. Ketch as their mother, but their biological mom, Naomi Kale, continued to keep tabs on the kids until her death ten years later. Ghost RiderOn Halloween night when they were teenagers, Danny took his sister Barbara to a graveyard to give her the opportunity to take pictures of the grave of Harry Houdini.
During this excursion, the siblings stumbled upon a confrontation between two gangs, one led by and the other made up of cronies belonging to the. The two gangs began fighting each other, and Barbara cried out, causing Deathwatch to become aware of her presence. Barbara was shot through the chest with an arrow by one of Deathwatch's henchmen, so Danny grabbed his sister's body and ran away to a nearby junkyard. Distressed and covered in his sister's blood, he hid there with his sister's unconscious body from Deathwatch's henchmen until he noticed a pristine motorbike with a glowing gas cap. Inspecting the glowing gas cap, Danny touched it with his blood-stained hand and instantly transformed into, a whose mission was to take revenge on those who shed innocent blood. As Ghost Rider, both Daniel's mind and Ghost Rider's mind were in control, resulting in Danny being only somewhat influential in his own actions.Ghost Rider confronted and began to torture the henchmen of Deathwatch, but was interrupted by the arrival of the police. Leaving Barbara's body behind, Ghost Rider escaped the police on his flaming motorbike, which had also been transformed when Danny touched the glowing gas cap.
Eventually, Ghost Rider drove into a secluded alleyway where he turned back into Daniel Ketch.Barbara's unconscious body was taken to a hospital by the cops, but not much time later she was killed by, who had learned Daniel's secret identity and sought revenge on Ghost Rider for burning his face (an injury Blackout actually had himself to blame for).Dan's good friend was also eventually caught up in the conflict against Deathwatch's men, where he helped Ghost Rider fight them. Early careerAfter the mysteriously disappeared, Ketch, and joined forces to replace them until the four were rescued and a plot was exposed. Ketch also briefly teamed with Wolverine and while investigating one of 's schemes.traveled from the West Coast to confront this new Ghost Rider thinking the evil spirit had returned. Blaze hunted down Ghost Rider and tried to kill him multiple times while Ghost Rider kept attempting to escape Blaze and bring Blackout, who was killing multiple people, to justice. Finally, when Blaze watched Ghost Rider save a child in that Blackout was about to kill, he became less suspicious of Ghost Rider and stopped trying to kill him. He instead decided to observe Daniel to make sure that he wasn't Zarathos, and he taught Daniel how to fight and protect himself when he wasn't transformed into Ghost Rider.It was later revealed for certain that this incarnation of Ghost Rider was not Zarathos, and that Blaze and Ketch were brothers.
The family had been separated by the to limit the chances of the forming, but 's manipulations forced them to use the powers.The two worked together to fight Zarathos and as part of the. Danny Ketch seemed to die by the hands of Blackout, but the Spirit of Vengeance to which he had been bound through the bike's talisman lived on. During this time Dan's only existence remained stuck in a void and would only be able to communicate with the Ghost Rider Spirit via the spirit world.Dan also had problems with his girlfriend, who joined a task force that was designed to confront superhuman criminals and vigilantes. As the Ghost Rider, he was briefly captured, but escaped before could examine the nature of his powers. Noble KaleAfter an attack by a mad revealed some dark memories, Ketch consulted with. It was revealed that the Ghost Rider form was actually an ancestor, who had become a Spirit of Vengeance with the help of the angel. Their use of motorcycles was due to Naomi placing her medallion on her own motorcycle.
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This also meant Ketch and Blaze were distantly related to sorceress. This knowledge seemed to increase the power of the Ghost Rider, although he also became more distant and angry.
The revelations also awakened the, who had been dispatched to destroy Kale and his descendants. Jennifer sent out a mystic distress signal, which was answered. Together they managed to hold off the Furies until Jennifer was able to call the spirit of Naomi to force the Furies to abandon their attack.Having recently deposed his father Mephisto, Blackheart began to attack the Ghost Rider with his own created. He also mocked Blaze by placing 's spirit into the Blackrose. Kale was killed by and taken to. While there, Daniel Ketch apparently sacrificed himself to unlock Noble Kale's full power. Kale defeated Blackheart and briefly controlled the realm until Mephisto's return.
While he ruled Hell, he resurrected Dan Ketch and returned him to Earth.Sometime later when Mephisto reclaimed his realm, Noble Kale returned to Earth and was forced to re-bond to Dan Ketch.Danny slipped into a coma in the mortal plane and was later revived by his dead and brother and went on to live a seemingly normal life. However, this was not to last; his longtime girlfriend Stacy found out she was pregnant with Danny's child and ran away. ZadkielSometime later, however, Dan had a change of heart and had Noble Kale exercised from his body by the technomancer Mary LeBow. No longer having the Ghost Rider's power causes Danny to fall into a deep depression, becoming a drunk who fights bar thugs for kicks. He is approached by, a talking crow that continues to encounter Ketch over and over, giving him 'doses' of the Ghost Rider power, luring him in with longer amounts each time.Eleven explains to Ketch the true history of the Spirits of Vengeance and how some past Ghost Rider incarnations were unable to cope with such a magnitude of power, going insane and burning out their souls.
He also explains that, from Blackheart's old Spirits of Vengeance, is hunting other Ghost Riders in order to feed his own growing addiction. After absorbing the spirit from another Ghost Rider that knew of Rex's location, Danny finds out where he is hiding and finishes him off, absorbing the other spirits Rex had taken in the past. Taking on such an amount of power pushes Danny over the edge, causing him to go insane. Intervenes, offering to take away Danny's pain from the overdose and in return, Danny must gather other Spirits of Vengeance and absorb their essence in order to 'save the host's soul'.
Desperate and with no other option, Ketch agrees, becoming a knight in Zadkiel's service.Danny is next seen in the shadows speaking on the phone with the head nurse hunting Johnny Blaze, the sign of Zadkiel on his hand. Ketch then encounters, the young boy Blaze is trying to save, and seemingly convinces the boy to kill himself. The Last Stand of the Spirits of VengeanceDaniel Ketch set off on his new mission: To collect the powers of all the Ghost Riders for the angel Zadkiel to prevent the corruption of the powers within their human hosts. Zadkiel has other motives he keeps to himself-that he needs the powers of the Riders to tear down the walls of New Jerusalem and wage war on the.Danny's first task is to destroy any evidence of his own history by attacking and destroying his archives. Johnny Blaze and Caretaker's granddaughter, arrive to speak with Caretaker before he dies, but are too late to catch Danny.In with Chinese soldiers harassing a village, a peasant enters on a donkey. After a few exchange of words and an order to kill given by the General, the peasant changes and kills the General's men while his back is turned.
When the General turns back he sees the Ghost Rider and gets a penance stare for his trouble. After the attack the Rider goes back to his sanctuary where he is visited by Danny Ketch.
A short while later Sara and Johnny Blaze arrive at the sanctuary to find out how to get back at Zadkiel. After entering, they find the peasant and donkey burnt to husks from Ketch leeching the Ghost Rider power.That night, the two are visited by Ketch and begin a battle with a show of power. When Blaze does the penance stare to his brother, he sees exactly what has transpired.
Ketch has murdered the hosts of numerous riders for their powers. During a show of pity for the fallen, Ketch is able to return the stare on Blaze, and sends Blaze into temporary insanity.
Before Ketch is able to take the power of Zarathos, he is stopped by the new caretaker, Sister Sara. She rescues Blaze and they go to a safehouse where they are visited by two more Ghost Riders, the Arabic and the Chinese, who are aware of Zadkiel and Ketch's plan.When Blaze's team arrives in, they learn Ketch has already taken the power of the Rider,. After the conquest, Ketch has another talk with Zadkiel via a communications link.
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During the conversation, Zadkiel massacres the squad of the who guard the gates of Heaven. Zadkiel tells Ketch to wait to attack the Riders until the last ones are together. After leaving Japan, Blaze's team journeys to the City of the Skulls in the where the last stand would be made. There they meet the Lords of the Congo, the Ghost Riders, and, and their Phantom Riders.As the Ghost Riders and their forces get ready for battle, Blaze has his eyes opened back up by kids going to fight.
He quickly snaps out of his depression and joins the others for the final battle. During the course of the battle Baron Skullfire dies and the spirit is transferred to one of the Phantom Riders, after which Ketch creates hellfire avatars of himself to take all the powers. A wager is then made by Blaze and Ketch on a race between the brothers around the world for the fates of the powers. As he is about to win, Blaze is injured by using a who Zadkiel had lying in wait. Danny Ketch is now able to take the Rider from Johnny and take them to Zadkiel. The sound of the gates falling is enough to be felt by Spider-Man's senses, and loud enough to be heard by people everywhere including Hell. When an injured Blaze returns to the City of the Skulls, Ketch falls from the sky and reveals that Zadkiel had used him as a weapon, and that the battle for Heaven has already been decided.
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Trials and TribulationsAfter the battle with Zadkiel and his, Ketch parts ways with Blaze and Sara, taking to the open road on his motorcycle and reminiscing about being Zadkiel's puppet. Now, he simply waits for the end of the world to soon come. He comes across a blown-up gas station, destroyed by the demonically-possessed. He attempts to pass by it but his bike refuses to budge however, and Ketch is forcibly turned into the Ghost Rider.Danny finds the Highwayman further up the road, having finished slaughtering a bus full of UFO watchers and hippies to feed the demons in his semi. Ghost Rider faces off with the Highwayman, eventually tearing his head off in a high-speed chase.
His decapitated head attempts to crawl away, sprouting arachnid legs and cursing the Ghost Rider. Ketch picks it up and sets it ablaze with a spew of hellfire. He transforms back into Danny Ketch and rides off, reflecting on how close he was to being rid of this life as the Ghost Rider.Following Danny's encounter with the Highwayman he teamed up with Blaze for a final assault on Zadkiel. The two brothers working together with the new Caretaker, and discover a portal into Heaven. Once there they take the fight to Zadkiel only to be initially beaten by the mad angel. On the verge of giving up Blaze realizes how to call upon the spirits of the previously fallen Spirits of Vengeance for aid.
Ketch and Blaze, together with all of the Spirits of Vengeance from human history, defeat Zadkiel and restore balance to earth. Ketch's whereabouts following the defeat of Zadkiel are unknown. Superior Spider-ManWhen confronted Blackout, he called Ketch for information on the villain.
Ketch offered to help him fight Blackout, but he declined.Powers and Abilities.