David Goyer talked with MTV about the script he wrote for Ghost Rider 2. Goyer told the site that the sequel is set eight years after the events of the 2007 film:
“It’s not exactly a reboot,” said Goyer. “I hate to say it’s more realistic, because he’s got a flaming skull for a head, but it’s a bit more stripped down and darker. It’s definitely changing tone. What ‘Casino Royale’ was to the Bond movies, hopefully this will be to ‘Ghost Rider.’”
“This story picks up eight years after the first film,” said Goyer. “You don’t have to have seen the first film. It doesn’t contradict anything that happened in the first film, but we’re pretending that our audience hasn’t seen the first film. It’s as if you took that same character where things ended in the first film and then picked it up eight years later—he’s just in a much darker, existential place.”
The script has actually already been leaked on the Internet and Goyer says that the film will be based “significantly [from] the same script.”
