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Ghost Rider is a superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Ghost Rider. The film is directed by Mark Steven Johnson and stars Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider. The film was released in Egypt on February 14, 2007 and in Australia, Serbia, Puerto Rico, Malaysia and Lebanon on February 15, 2007 and on February 16, 2007 in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Turkey.
* Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider
* Eva Mendes as Roxanne Simpson
* Brett Cullen as Barton Blaze
* Wes Bentley as Blackheart / Legion
* Sam Elliott as Caretaker / Carter Slade
* Peter Fonda as Mephistopheles
* Donal Logue as Mack
* Matt Long as Young Johnny Blaze
* Raquel Alessi as Young Roxanne Simpson
* Daniel Frederiksen as Wallow (Water Demon)
* Mathew Wilkinson as Abigor (Wind Demon)
* Laurence Breuls as Grissel (Earth Demon)
Nicolas Cage molded his "hard drinking and smoking bad ass" character Johnny Blaze to have more depth. "I'm playing him more as someone who... made this deal and he's trying to avoid confronting it, anything he can do to keep it away from him." Cage also explained that Blaze's stunt riding was a form of escape and a way to keep him connected to his deceased father, who taught him to ride. Cage rode a Buell motorcycle for Blaze's stunt cycle, and a heavily customized hardtail chopper named Grace which transforms into the "Hell Cycle", along with the character.[23] The Hell Cycle's wheels, made of pure flames in the comics, were changed to be solid tires covered in flames in order to give the motorcycle more weight onscreen.[24]
To express emotion, Ghost Rider's skull flames were designed to change color, such as being toned down and blue to display any emotion besides rage.[24] The film's visual effects supervisor, Kevin Mack, and his crack team at Sony Imageworks handled the difficult task of creating computer-generated fire on a shot-by-shot basis.[18] Ghost Rider's voice was manipulated by sound designer Dane Davis, who won an Academy Award for Sound Editing for The Matrix. Davis filtered Cage's line readings through three different kinds of animal growls that were played backwards and covered separate frequencies. Davis then amplified the dialogue through a mechanical volumizer. Director Johnson described the sound as a "deep, demonic, mechanical lion's roar".[25]
On February 9, 2007, Marvel producer Avi Arad announced the development of Ghost Rider 2 at a press event
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