Nicholas Cage Talks 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'

And I do mean talk. 

Over at /Film they've compiled some interviews Cage has done while on the press circuit for The Season of the Witch, and it seems to me he spent more time talking about Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. He praises the directing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, and reveals some more info about the upcoming film:

"It is a completely different film. The first one, which I won’t denigrate — I liked the first one, but it was almost like a fairy tale. Almost like a Disney fairy tale interpretation of Faust. This one is completely re-conceived, it’s not even connected to the first one, it’s a different origin sequence. But I think it will be a brand new experience. It has more adrenaline involved in the film making process itself, and in the movie when you see it. Again, I think the stuff we’re able to get into with Ghost Rider is going to be a lot more abstract and not like anything you’ve seen before."

Well, I like that it's not even connected to the first film...oh, sorry, didn't mean to interrupt. Carry on:

I’m really enjoying my experience with Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. They’re not like anybody I’ve worked with before. They’re total originals. Mark Neveldine is doing things with the camera that are just brand new. He’s on rollerblades. He’s hanging off of wires at 300 feet. He’s just doing things that are combination stuntman and camera operator/director that are quite shocking and quite risky. And Brian Taylor is just a philosopher when it comes to movies. You can talk to him about Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, and you can go into Ishiro Honda’s The War of the Gargantuas, in the same sentence.

"We're gonna prove that you CAN lick somebody's elbow."

"Dude, it's you can't lick your own el...never mind"

[Johnny Blaze has] become a lot more sarcastic, now that his head has been ignited. Unlike the first one where he was trying to keep it at bay. Now he’s been living with the Ghost Rider for some time, there’s a lot more irony with the character. His outlook isn’t as quite naive as it once was.

I have to say, it's refreshing to hear the way their thinking about this flick. I may just be getting a little excited... well, excitement mixed with trepidation. One cool thing is this time around Cage will actually play Ghost Rider, unlike the first one where it was stuntman/CGI, so that could be interesting.

Speak out, Action News Team! What do you think about the Ghost Rider sequel? Can it recover from the original? Will Nic Cage keep making faces like this?

Does this really need a caption?