Published at: Dec. 20, 2005, 4:31 p.m. CST by staff
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here about to head off to MUNICH... but before I take off I thought I'd throw up this link for you good folks. I really like Mark Steven Johnson having met him for the first time at Comic-Con last summer. He's a super nice guy who has a genuine love for what he's doing and the properties he gets to adapt. Having said that I wasn't impressed with the trailer or the footage for the film shown at Comic-Con. However none of that footage had effects work that was anywhere close to being final for the title character.
Now up on the Ghost Rider website they have a button called "The Rider Revealed" which has 10 seconds or so of the ol' flaming skull guy. I like a lot. In fact, I'd go so far as to label this "kickass." I hope they really refine the flick and make all the effects as good as this (or better) in the year and change they have until release (Feb. 16th 2007 according to the site). Just a word of warning, I had to install a new Flash upgrade to even view the site to click on that button, so watch out for that if you don't have the newest Flash on your 'puter.
I'd love for nothing more than to see a bad motherfucker with a flaming skull for a head beat up on some crooks when this hits the screen. I just hope the Marvel people learned their lesson on DAREDEVIL and will release Johnson's full cut first, not a character development-less hollow version. Here's the link to a few seconds of the Rider! Thanks to "Brownie" for the heads up!
