Script Report: GHOST RIDER
October 16th, 2000
Screenwriter David Goyer has been very cool about letting us on the Internet know about the status of GHOST RIDER, and other projects. With BLADE 2 in pre-production Goyer has been able to focus on the script more intently, and it sounds like he is making a lot of porgress.
While talking to EON Magazine, Goyer revealed that he is hard at work penning the first draft of his much-anticipated GHOST RIDER screenplay. There has been a lot of buzz about how the story will play-out on the big screen.
"The script is coming along great," exclaims Goyer. "I'm having a lot of fun. As I worked out the story with Steve Norrington [the film's director], I think we were both surprised at how mythic it's become. We both remarked that in some ways the themes were similar to those of BLADE, but it just struck us as being a much more mature work. Even I was surprised when I sat down to write GHOST RIDER with how sort of mythic and serious it's become. I think people are really going to be pleasantly surprised. We're definitely highlighting the curse element. It's not a happy story. The Spirit of Vengeance itself is a really horrific figure."
Goyer has made it very clear that film will feature the original Ghost Rider Johnny Blaze. "We've been debating that back and forth, but it definitely is Blaze's story. Very obliquely, it's an origin piece. When the movie begins, he already is the Ghost Rider and has already been the Ghost Rider for some time, but we kind of jump back in time. I don't want to say in flashback, but very obliquely in dreams you see a little bit about what happened."
Goyer hopes to continue bringing comic books to life, "I've always been interested in the HULK. I wouldn't mind taking a stab at CAPTAIN AMERICA or IRON MAN or something like that."
-- Chris
(Source: EON)
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