Owing to a relatively short pre-pro schedule and the hands-on approach of the directors, Durst says Spirit of Vengeance did not follow a typical planning and previs effort. Shooting in up-and-coming locations in Romania and Turkey can be a little challenging because they take a lot more planning – you can’t just get a crane sent out – but you have to improvise and that’s what we’re able to do.” ‘We just went out and shot’ Fulle says, “it’s kind of business as usual for us dealing with companies around the world so that was very manageable. The effects shots were reviewed mostly via cineSync sessions, relying on 5thKind to manage assets and a tailored FileMaker Pro database to manage the shots from companies in LA to Melbourne. It was a 3D pipeline where we shared shots and we were able to have the VFX vendor do their matchmove and roto work, send it to the conversion vendor to do left eye/right eye and send it back with the cameras to VFX to render natively in stereo.” “So we came up with a hybrid pipeline with the conversion and VFX vendors. “We had to work out how to do the conversion on a 3D flaming head because of its volumetric nature,” she says. Fulle says the conversion was one of the biggest challenges conceptually. Ultimately, visual effects producer Jenny Fulle, through her Creative-Cartel production company, co-ordinated the efforts of Iloura and other vendors on 850 shots, plus the work of two stereo conversion houses – Gener8 and Legend3D. “Iloura did a test in record time,” he says, “and they really nailed it and got the feeling of Ghost Rider – not just taking it literally for the charred skull but they also had the dark feeling of it.” Progression shot of Ghost Rider's motorcycle. Anything around him too becomes like that, such as his bike.” Durst took that idea to a number of effects facilities to provide tests as part of the bidding process. “But here he has a dark face that’s been burnt. “In the first film there was a clean-ness about it,” says visual effects supervisor Eric Durst. Think “The Ring./wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GhostRider2_clip1.mp4Watch a scene from the film.Īlthough in both films Ghost Rider is seen sporting a flaming skull, Spirit of Vengeance called on the titular character to be much more dirty and gritty. The co-directors augment this with jump-cuts that make the Rider move with the supernatural jerkiness of a Japanese ghost. But Johnny Blaze states the obvious: “We’ve BOTH got to work on our decision-making.”Ĭage is hilariously wound-up throughout this sequel - manic, motor-mouthed, and bug-eyed. The guy who made a deal with the Devil and the woman who slept with Satan click, right off. The angel fetches Johnny Blaze, biker-turned-Ghost Rider. A wine-swilling biker-angel (Idris Elba) and the boy’s mother (Violante Placido, as ineffably gorgeous as her name) are all that stand between the Devil and the boy who “completes” Satan’s Grand Design. He’s commissioned Corrigan (Johnny Whitworth) to grab the kid. ![]() Satan, who wears double-breasted suits and alligator shoes, needs the kid to fulfill a prophecy. But a boy (Fergus Riordan) borne of the Devil (Ciaran Hinds) needs the Rider’s help. In “Vengeance,” the “Rider” (Cage) is haunted by the life he now leads. ![]() In fact, they should call themselves “The Crank Brothers.” It fits. But this time around, Cage and everybody else on board are in on the joke.Ĭredit the directing duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, action auteurs who go by the moniker “Neveldine / Taylor.” For jacked-up action, the guys who made the “Crank” movies (GREAT bad movies) have no peers. It’s still a profoundly silly mash-up of comic book and quasi-religious “prophecy” about a motorcyclist who sold his soul to the devil, who transforms into a flaming avenger hurtling out of hell when the need arises. A goofy, gonzo thrill ride, “Vengeance” is a bad movie sequel so bad it’s good - a bad movie that’s almost a great bad movie. Of all the bad horror / fantasy / sci-fi / action pictures Nicolas Cage has cranked out over the last decade, “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” is the Nic Cagiest.
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