Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance Is A Reboot

Speaking to Total Film, Brian Taylor has revealed that Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance will be "100% different" from the 2007 original, in all but name "pretty much a reboot". The director said that "the first attraction was Nic[holas Cage, who plays the anti-hero in both the first film and this one] and the second was the character and just how cool it could be." Taylor said he wasn't too happy with the previous take on Johnny Storm and his alter-ego, and thus in Spirit he hopes "to make the Ghost Rider movie that he wished he had seen before". Not much is yet known about the next instalment, which Taylor jokingly called a "seboot" or "requel" due to Cage signalling continuity between the two films, but so far we have been told that the tormented Storm has gone into hiding with the burden of his powers, yet must return into the wider world to save a young boy from Deadshot, an adversary ripped straight from the comics and here born by the Devil's work. Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance is due for release in cinemas in February 2012.