Because Noone Demanded It - Ghost Rider Sequel Coming

I’ve harped on this before (probably too much, honestly) but it bears repeating. We’re going to see tons of Marvel films produced because the studios in question don’t want to lose the rights and have them reverted back to the House of Ideas’ new owner Disney. Now all of a sudden, 20^th Century is rebooting the Fantastic Four franchise (to be fair, this has been in the works since the start of ’09) and more X-Men spin-offs and Sony is already making plans for two Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire-absent Spider-Man films in addition to the in-development fourth installment.

Now Variety has added another one to the list. That’s right; we’re getting a sequel to Ghost Rider. Does anyone care? *Crickets* Thought so. The trades reveal that discussions are underway between Sony and David Goyer to write the film with Nicolas Cage (fresh off looking like a jackass in the “Is it or isn’t it real?” Superman Lives test suit) “expected” to return.

This isn’t Goyer’s first run in with the flaming-skulled cyclist. He worked on an ill-fated version years back with Stephen Norrington (having just worked together on Blade to great success) to direct under Disney ironically enough (via the Miramax label). That fell apart and we eventually got the ’07 incarnation with Cage and Mark Steven Johnson.

I realize that his bread and butter is with comic-related properties (outside of stuff like the Flash Forward television series and what not), but this is beneath Goyer. Don’t you think after Batman III, he should call it a day with the genre? I mean honestly, how could anyone be expected to seriously “top” those films?