David Goyer Preparing ‘Ghost Rider 2’

David Goyer is revving up to bring us ‘Ghost Rider 2.’  Yeah.  I went there.  As reported over at Variety, Goyer is in early talks to create the story and supervise over the screenwriting for a new ‘Ghost Rider’ film.  The plan is to bring Nicolas Cage back in the starring role.

While Goyer claims a deal is not finalized, Columbia Pictures is prepping the sequel based on a script Goyer wrote years ago.  For those of you who do not know, Goyer has previously worked on screenplays for ‘Batman Begins’ and the ‘Blade’ trilogy, the third of which he served as director.

As much of a disappointment as the Nicolas Cage-starring ‘Ghost Rider’ was, let’s all hope this new iteration is, in fact, a sequel and not a “reboot” as seen recently with the announcement that 20th Century Fox was planning a re-launching of ‘The Fantastic Four.’  Of course, studios have to continuously churn out new installments on these properties for fear that the rights will revert back to Marvel should a property languish for too long.  Unfortunately, the reboot is the in-thing to do, and studious would rather play Etch-a-Sketch and shake up a whole, new franchise than work off something they’ve already set forth.