'Ghost Rider 2' Looking To Take On New Feeling And Tone

Screenwriter David Goyer recently spoke with MTV about the screenplay he wrote several years ago for "Ghost Rider 2" and how many are wondering how toning it down for an R to PG-13 rating would change the feel of the movie?

"It's not exactly a reboot," said Goyer. "I hate to say it's more realistic, because he's got a flaming skull for a head, but it's a bit more stripped down and darker. It's definitely changing tone. What 'Casino Royale' was to the Bond movies, hopefully this will be to 'Ghost Rider.'"

"This story picks up eight years after the first film," said Goyer. "You don't have to have seen the first film. It doesn't contradict anything that happened in the first film, but we're pretending that our audience hasn't seen the first film. It's as if you took that same character where things ended in the first film and then picked it up eight years later—he's just in a much darker, existential place."

Nicolas Cage is currently still attached to the lead role of Johnny Blaze.