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Movie News: NICOLAS CAGE TALKS ABOUT GHOST RIDER & OLIVER STONE'S 9/11 PROJECT

The actor offers up two different kinds of heroes for saving the day

By SEAN ELLIOTT, Contributing Writer
Published 10/10/2005




LOCATION: Somewhere Just on the Edge of Hellfire
 
THE SKINNY: Nicolas Cage in an interview promoting his new movie WEATHER MAN talked not only about that film, but also about working with Oliver Stone, and about his role as John Blaze better known as Ghost Rider.

 

GHOST RIDER is the latest in a string of Super Hero comic based films, which Marvel Entertainment has been launching into theatres. It's due out summer 2006 and is from DAREDEVIL director Mark Steven Johnson.

"[Johnny Blaze is a] man who's just trying to take a negative and turn it into a positive like we all do and we've been talking about that here today with THE WEATHERMAN," says Cage. "We try and make movies and do something positive with any negative feelings that I've had. Johnny Blaze is a superhero who has a very horrible thing happen to him and he's taking that negative and he's going to make something positive about it no matter what and in that way you can say that I like GHOST RIDER."
 

GHOST RIDER is the story of John Blaze, who is a stunt motorcycle rider that makes a deal with the devil to save the life of someone he loves.  Now the Living Spirit of Vengeance possesses Blaze, and when innocent blood is spilled he transforms into a blazing skull-headed demon tear assing down the highway on his motorcycle of hellfire. Woe be to any evil doer who crosses paths with Ghost Rider, for his penitent stare will reduce any man to a sobbing wreck consumed by remorse for his wrong doings. 

  

In addition to GHOST RIDER, Cage also talked about playing a real-life hero in a new film he is working on with Oliver Stone about the tragedy of 9/11 which is based on the events that happened to Port Authority Sergeant John McLoughlin.

 

"Well, I'm just now finishing The Wicker Man, I'm almost done with that," says Cage. "I'm going to come back here and then I'm going to go to New York. I've met with John McLoughlin. I've spent some time with him and talked through some things. I spent some down at the Port Authority and met all the other surviving members of the tragedy that were there. I'll sort of also talk through it with Oliver. I get the feeling from Oliver that the work they've done on the screenplay that that they want to make it pretty cinema-veritae so it'll feel like real time, unfolding. There's maybe a lot of technical jargon that you won't understand, but it's going to smack of reality, and they're going to try and make it as real as they can. I'm happy to say that Oliver and I have been trying to work together for many years. It hasn't happened, but I'm happy to say that with this one, because it's so positive about the human condition - the buildings themselves really, it's not about them. It's really more about this sample of men when the buildings came down where they went to survive and how they coped."

 

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