Nicolas Cage loves comics. It’s no secret. Ghost Rider was his first real foray into the world of comic movies and most people gave it a fail. But with Disney’s buy of Marvel, everybody is Hollywood is scrambling to either hold onto their Marvel movie rights or grab their ankles and wait for Disney to drill the box office. Columbia Pictures has been a little cool to doing a Ghost Rider sequel, even with Nick Cage talking it up in the media. Now they are planning to get a follow-up movie on the fast track. It won’t be a reboot, but hopefully it will lose the “Daredevil” feel the first Ghost Rider movie had. Which doesn’t mean I think it was a bad movie, just a little cheesy compared to Spider-Man, Iron Man or Dark Knight? Variety is reporting that David S. Goyer, writer on Batman Begins and Blade, is in talks to either write or oversee the script on Ghost Rider 2. Given his successes in Hollywood, this is definitely a good thing.

Fox is scrambling to hold on to each and every Marvel property they have rights to. This includes: a Daredevil reboot (whose rights had reportedly lapsed back to Marvel, but apparently haven’t…), The Fantastic Four (a total reboot in a “darker” direction. how the heck do you make the FF dark?!?), a Wolverine sequel, the Deadpool movie (read the latest update here…), a rumored New Mutants/X-Men First Class movie, a Magneto film and a long rumored Silver Surfer spin-off. Universal is also trying to bang out a Submariner movie as quick as they can.

I’m sure that by now you’re thinking “What decent Marvel Character is left to make a movie of?” You mean other than Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk and The Avengers? Let’s see, Black Panther, Dr. Strange, Moon Knight (that one may be a reach…), Guardians of the Galaxy, New Warriors, Nova, etc. Yeah, most are B-listers, but those usually make the best movies because the people who work on them have a real passion for the characters. Personally, I would like to see Disney make a deal to purchase the rights back to every outstanding character right by promising a portion of each film’s gross box office take. That way, Marvel Studios will have full creative control to make a movie that the fans want to see – not what a Hollywood exec THINKS we want to see…

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