In an age of sequels, this is one that actually took me by surprise. It looks like they are in talks to bring back Ghost Rider for a follow up film. We get the ghastly news from moviehole
“We’re talking about it, yeah, talking about it,” says Johnson of “Ghost Rider 2”. “I don’t know what I’m going to do, to be honest. After Daredevil and this … it takes so long, these movies. I really want something different, and the pressure of the fan community is always so great.”
But if there is a “Ghost Rider 2”, Johnson has his ideas.
“If there’s a second one, I would push for Scarecrow,” he says. “In fact, in my first script it was Scarecrow who was the villain, but then I heard that they were going to put him in the Batman movie. But now having seen it, he wasn’t really in it that much. And the Marvel Scarecrow is really pretty cool, so I think he’d be an excellent villain. I also think there’s a character named Blackout that could be interesting, [and] there’s Vengeance from the later comics.”
I do not know if this a good idea for Johnson. I can understand a studio wanting to make another Ghost Rider movie for financial reasons, but Johnson has not been beloved by fans for his work in the comic book genre. Elektra, Daredevil, Ghost Rider have been some of the worst received comic movies made and he is responsible for directing all of them. In the moviehole article he goes on to discuss how he would like to return to comedies ala “Grumpy Old Men” where he is more comfortable and where the fans do not have such high expectations.
I do not think I know of many people that would want to see this sequel. I think people may go because it may be “so bad it is good” but other than that I do not see this project generating much excitement. I think it probably would be best for the film and Johnson’s career if he choose to to sit this one out, and retire from comic book films altogether.
