Series: Ghost Rider

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Cage and Johnson bring a friendlier 'Ghost Rider'

"When [director Mark Steven Johnson] came on board and he wrote this version I think it opened up the character to wider audience. I want the kids to come see the movie," says Nicolas Cage of the 'Ghost Rider' movie. "So yeah, there's some scary moments, but, more like scary like in 1950's Vincent Price "B" movies which is fun and I don't want them to be too scared. The spirit of it is, I wanted it to be very playful and there is a lot of humor in the movie. The character is absurd, you know, he's an absurdist character and I think it's a good thing because that give me a chance to bring comedy to it as well. He's not a chain smoking, hard drinking bad ass because what I wanted to contribute was that Johnny was trying to keep the devil away because he really is in trouble with the devil. If that's the case so why bring him in, so he's trying to deflect and stay relaxed by listening to Karen Carpenter and eating jelly beans out of a martini glass and just trying to stay calm because he knows that at any moment he could creep up on him."More...