![]() ![]() Mountainous terrain, tunnels and open road. Deacon glides up next to him on his own bike. No longer clean or pristine, it’s amazing it runs at all. Blaze’s Harley (the Easy Rider bike from the first film) kicks to life. He’s rugged, righteous and vicious with scars from brow to jawbone. Door swings open – Meet DEACON GRAY (think Sean Bean), once entered the priesthood but slugged a Bishop for eying an altar boy. Staggers back, drops to the filthy floor. Finally he SMASHES his face into the mirror. It heats, distorts, cracks – Blaze’s reflection fragments - pieces of Johnny, pieces of Ghost Rider. He holds up his hand… flames lick out from the fingers as he presses it on the reflective glass. He stares at himself in the bathroom mirror of a shitty bar. MEET JOHNNY BLAZE… drunk and staggering… a shadow of what he once was…tormented by his years of being Ghost Rider. ![]() Sound easy? Sound like hero’s work? Did to Blaze too… but walking with evil takes its toll… and sooner or later it gets hard to tell the difference from the evil out there and the evil inside your own soul… Rather than terrorize the innocent, Blaze chose instead to use his supernatural evil to slay those already in Satan’s service. He declined the role of the Devil’s bounty hunter. ![]() Blaze wasn’t the first of his kind but he was the first to spit in the face of the devil. Likely via Voice Over, we hear Johnny Blaze encapsulate becoming the Ghost Rider… what his purpose is, and the rules of his supernatural alter-ego: Changing in the presence of supernatural evil, or when innocent blood is spilled nearby. I’ve posted a small snippet of the treatment below which was apparently rejected by the studio because it was too violent, despite the fact that Avi Arad liked it.Ĭall it a preamble. I think we’re all still waiting for a truly great Ghost Rider film I admittedly enjoyed the Nic Cage movies for the silly fun that they were but I have to say that Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier’s rejected Treatment sounded like it could have been something special.Ĭomic Book Movie posted this a while back so it’s old news, but there may be a few of you out there that haven’t seen this yet. ![]()
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