Ghost Rider - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Ghost Rider or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Ghost Rider

[oscar]

The Caretaker's identity as another Rider, who knows what it's like to be one first-hand, is implied by his having left exactly the right number of cups of water for Johnny to guzzle when he wakes up.

[bernice]

(at around 1h 26 mins) When Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) and Carter Slade (Sam Elliott) ride together to San Venganza, one shot shows Blaze riding in the foreground with Slade just behind him, and slightly off to the side, so both can be clearly seen. This scene pays homage to "Ghost Rider", a painting by the late David Mann, that has nothing to do with the Marvel character.

[carl]

The village of San Venganza which translates to "Saint Vengeance" in Spanish. The Ghost Rider is an angel of vengeance for the innocent.

[wesley]

Nicolas Cage's hairpiece required three hours to apply every day.

[lynn]

A large group of on-lookers converged on a bridge in Melbourne, Australia to watch scenes being filmed in a nearby location. Over four days of filming at that location, the crowds grew so large they disrupted traffic, and public transport operators reported an unusual jump in passenger traffic to the area.

[camila]

One of the few Marvel Comic-based movies in which Stan Lee did not appear. He had absolutely no involvement in the creation of the original Ghost Rider.

[sophie]

Writer and director Mark Steven Johnson put forward his own money to make an action sequence in which Ghost Rider battles a helicopter.

[marc]

Nicolas Cage is an avid fan of the Marvel comic, and lobbied furiously to play the part of Ghost Rider.

[wesley]

(at around 15 mins) The Johnny Blaze video game in the movie is actually a game called "Crusty Demons" (2006) developed by UK games company Climax Studios. The plot is somewhat similar to the plot of Ghost Rider. A group of hard-riding extreme bikers are killed while performing an insane stunt. Satan offers to resurrect them and make them immortal if they use their motorcycle skills to do Satan's work. Climax Studios also developed Ghost Rider (2007).

[maureen]

Nicolas Cage had to have his Ghost Rider tattoo covered with make-up to play Johnny Blaze.

[terry]

Nicolas Cage is an avid comics fan. He took his stage surname, Cage, from character Luke Cage. His son is named "Kal-El", Superman's Kryptonian name. He was previously considered to play Green Goblin in Spider-Man (2002), and Superman in Tim Burton's aborted film project, but Ghost Rider is Cage's first role based on a comic character.

[sophie]

At the time of filming, the world record distance for a motorcycle jump was 277.5 feet, set by Trigger Gumm in May, 2005. On December 31, 2007, Robbie Maddison essentially performed Johnny Blaze's "Goalpost-to-Goalpost" motorcycle jump in Las Vegas, setting a new world record distance of 322.625 feet.

[christina]

(at around 18 mins) When Blackheart goes to the saloon and a biker stops him at the door, you can see the numbers 666 on the left of his jacket. This particular 666 has no Biblical reference. The letter F is the sixth letter of the alphabet. 666 = FFF = Filthy Few Forever. This was first used by the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club to indicate a distinguished member of the club. The biker at the door says that the saloon is only for Angels, another reference to the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club.

[melinda]

Film debut of Rebel Wilson (Girl in Alley).

[willard]

(at around 1h 35 mins) Near the end of the film, Johnny tells Mephistopheles that he will be a "spirit of vengeance." The plot of the movie centers around a cursed town called San Venganza, which can loosely translate as just that: "Spirit of Vengeance" (literally, Saint Vengeance).

[jessica]

In 1975, Marvel released a series of Topps trading cards that featured various superheroes and villains saying some phrase. The Ghost Rider card said "Peter Fonda Look Out!" in reference to Easy Rider (1969).

[chad]

(at around 28 mins) As the helicopters appear at Johnny Blaze's stunt, Richard Wagner musical score "Ride of the Valkyries" can be heard playing. This is a reference to the war film Apocalypse Now (1979), which was directed by Nicolas Cage's uncle Francis Ford Coppola, and had a scene with helicopters flying to that music.

[morris]

The movie was originally budgeted at $65 million dollars but soon the production costs went up once Nicholas Cage came on board and demanded a hefty fee to play the lead. He also demanded that the Ghost Rider had to look photo-realistic in post-production which increased the production cost even more. The production then hit $110 million, almost double as what is was projected.

[gerald]

To create the Ghost Rider's voice, sound designer Dane A. Davis recorded all of Nicolas Cage's lines as the Ghost Rider, and then filtered them through three different kinds of animal growls (played backwards, covering three separate frequencies), then played them through a mechanical volumizer, before finally giving them a fiery crackle. Writer and director Mark Steven Johnson compared it to "a deep, demonic, mechanical lion's roar" and said "one thing is for sure, his voice will shake the theater!"