Ugh: Nic Cage Wants to "Reconceive" 'Ghost Rider'

The most irritating thing to me about the latest development pertaining to a second Ghost Rider movie is not the memory of a pretty good comic book utterly shredded by bad writing, acting, directing, and dyejobs, and it's not even that Nicolas Cage will be back or the fact that, despite how lackluster the first movie was, it still made over $200 million around the world. No, the most irritating thing about this news is that we have to start using a new goddamn way to talk about remakes. The word "remake" is fine and applicable. But then, I believe around the time of Planet of the Apes, it became known as a "reimagining." That's a cheat, as if Tim Burton really made a movie that was leagues closer to the Pierre Boule novel. Blah blah blah. And then it was hip to call things "reboots," usually when a series of films is begun anew. And now, for the first time, I've heard a remake called a "reconceive." "I would like to do a reconceive," Cage told MTV. "I would like to go in a whole other direction, and I think that's what they're talking about. I would make it much less of a Western and more of an international story." So, basically, you get the same character with the same traits and the same actor playing him. If this were an Olan Mills photoshoot, the photographer might "reconceive" your family from sitting in a library to enjoying a hike through a densely wooded area. I mean, it's bad enough Cage gets to make another Ghost Rider...do we really need another cheap descriptive for remake while we're at it?

Comments

[Charcole]

Less of a western?
Was the first "more" of a western? The only thing I can think of remotely western about the first one was the fact than Sam Elliot was in it. God Nic Cage sounds like a D-Bag. The "D" stands for douche.

[Get The Big Picture]

More Bangkok, less dangerous.

[Tjei]

They should reimaginanimate Rumble Fish, with narrative from Cage character's point of view. With all of the original actors reprising their roles.

[Sensaes]

Oh dear. And the odds on Peter Fonda and Sam Elliot - the best elements of the first film - returning for this "reconception" (surely what Cage meant, but failed to drawl out) are not good. Still, if he gives up on the hair plugs, and goes chrome-dome, setting his head on fire might be less of a bad CGI affair next time...

[Feisty]

Simply put "Ug, Nic Cage" says it all.

[Cage Fan]

Conair 2 for the WIN!!!

[Get The Big Picture]

I just want to give Tjei kudos on the word "reimaginanimate." I've tried "rebootmagining" in the past, but I like yours better.