CRANK Director’s to Helm New Ghost Rider Pic

The directing duo that brought us such films as CRANK, CRANK 2 HIGH VOLTAGE and GAMER, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, are reportedly in early talks with Columbia Pictures to direct the new Ghost Rider project. This could be a sequel to the 2007  GHOST RIDER film, but there has been serious talk about rebooting the entire franchise altogether. Nic Cage still wants to be a part of the story and has been in tapped to reprise the role of Johnny Blaze. Right now, the working title for the film is GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGANCE and to me, that sounds like a reboot name.

Read more after the jump.

Anyone else think that this is a terrible idea? Me too. Sorry to the fans of the CRANK movies, but they were awful. I understand that they are not meant to be these amazing, well thought out stories, but the idea of a good Ghost Rider film needs to be. I hope that Columbia Pictures has some sense and has a good script in mind though, if they did than the first film would have been great. I know that it made a descent amount of money and the effects looked pretty good, but I’m going to need more bang for my buck if I’m going to watch another Ghost Rider pic. There is some fun action in the duo’s previous features, though I’m not so convinced of there ability to bring a good script to life. I wonder if someone at Columbia Pictures saw the end of CRANK 2 and was like “Wow! Jason Statham’s head caught on fire at the end! We should totally get these guys to direct our next Ghost Rider movie!”. I don’t know what a new Ghost Rider picture needs, but I’m not sure we need these guys. The details of the plot are being kept quiet, so stay tuned as we will bring you more news as it hits the web.

Am I being to hard? I’m just one fan, post comments below.

Source: Heat Vision