After the tremendous promise of the early X-Men and Spider-Man films, followed by Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins in 2005, 2006 brought disappointments like X-Men: The Last Stand and Superman Returns. Ghost Rider showed up around the time when superhero movies had shown some early momentum, but hadn’t achieved the level of success and consistency we’re now accustomed to. Spider-Man 2‘s Doctor Strange name drop or having a guy who sort of looked like Frank Castle show up in the background in the final scene. Crossovers were a vague pipedream, and fans had to content themselves with. umbrella, the various Marvel properties were spread across various studios. While all the DC Comics heroes were under the Warner Bros.
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Back in the ‘90s, a financially strapped Marvel made some quick cash by selling off the movie rights to their characters. The 10 year stretch between the release of Blade and the release of Iron Man was an interesting era for Marvel movies.
Get your martini glass full of jelly beans ready, because it’s time to talk about the legacy of the Ghost Rider movie, 15 years later. While Ghost Rider is ultimately a footnote in the superhero movie pantheon, it’s still worth rewatching every now and then. If anything, it’s hurt by the perfect way it sets up fight scenes like video game boss battles, only for the fights to be over within seconds. It’s a fun movie on its own that hits just the right level of being over-the-top at the appropriate moments. Cage playing a demonic bounty hunter who spits hellfire is one of those things where it feels more like a documentary that only happens to resemble a Marvel Comics character. It was the perfect vehicle for Nicolas Cage, a comic fan known for his often eccentric screen presence. Nicolas Cage starred as Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle stuntman powered by the devil to slay the damned in the form of a man with a flaming skull. 16, 2007, Mark Steven Johnson’s Ghost Rider movie hit theaters.
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