Caffeinated Clint
Wants the Scarecrow for the sequel
Mark Steven Johnson tells IGN that he’s considering dusting off Johnny Blaze for another Ghost Ride.
“We’re talking about it, yeah, talking about it,” says Johnson of “Ghost Rider 2”. “I don’t know what I’m going to do, to be honest. After Daredevil and this … it takes so long, these movies. I really want something different, and the pressure of the fan community is always so great.”
Johnson, who started out on comedies like “Grumpy Old Men”, says he’d much rather do something lighter next. “I would like to do something more comedy-based,” he says, “go back to my roots like the Grumpy Old Men movies and do something with effects. I love effects; I love working with them. So I don’t know about for myself, if that’s in the cards for me.”
But if there is a “Ghost Rider 2”, Johnson has his ideas.
“If there’s a second one, I would push for Scarecrow,” he says. “In fact, in my first script it was Scarecrow who was the villain, but then I heard that they were going to put him in the Batman movie. But now having seen it, he wasn’t really in it that much. And the Marvel Scarecrow is really pretty cool, so I think he’d be an excellent villain. I also think there’s a character named Blackout that could be interesting, [and] there’s Vengeance from the later comics.”
