HOW MANY GHOST RIDER MOVIES ARE THERE MOVIE
He's not wrong, but the context of that movie forced Columbia's hand as they sought maximum financial return (without knowing the property well enough). Long ago, superstar motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze made a deal with. Ghost Rider was designed to be a scary superhero with an R-rating and edge, and they just didn't have it worked out back then." With the delay of Inhumans and the upcoming Doctor Strange, Agents of SHIELD has a much wider world to work in. That movie is a still a movie that should be made, not with me obviously, but it should be an R-rated movie. David Goyer had a brilliant script which I wanted to do with David, and for whatever reason they just didn't let us make the movie. The writing credits mostly go to David S. He spoke to JoBlo to confirm the studio blocked his and the original writer's attempts to shoot for an R: "Ghost Rider was a movie that always should've been an R-rated movie. The movie was fine and got a sequel five years later as Neveldine/Taylor directed Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Sometimes it involves bringing the hero back for one more ride. And that's where Cage says they fell down - particularly in ignoring the excellent David S Goyer script that actually was a hard R. There is a strange art to making a sequel to a movie released many years earlier.
Both movies were released as PG-13s, in an attempt to broaden the audience, despite the fact that a soul-reaping, fiery-skulled demon hero was made to be an R-Rated property.