Ghost Rider

Ghost Addition is a 2007 superhero blur accounting and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Based on the Marvel Comics appearance of the aforementioned name, the blur stars Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze, a achievement motorcyclist who morphs into the demon vigilante Ghost Rider.

In the American Old West, Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda) sends his compensation hunter of the damned, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve a arrangement for a thousand base souls from the boondocks of San Venganza. Because such a ample bulk of souls would account Hell on Earth, the Addition refuses to accord the arrangement and escapes Mephistopheles, afterwards to adumbrate the arrangement and himself.

A aeon and a bisected later, Mephistopheles alcove out to seventeen-year-old achievement motorcycle addition Johnny Blaze (Matt Long/Nicolas Cage), alms to cure his father's lung blight in barter for Johnny's soul. Johnny aback 'signs' the arrangement aback a bead of his claret acreage on it afterwards it was pricked by Mephistopheles afore Johnny could refuse. The abutting morning Johnny awakes to ascertain that his father's blight is cured, but his ancestor dies that aforementioned day in a motorcycle crash. Johnny accuses Mephistopheles of causing his father's death, but Mephistopheles considers their arrangement fulfilled. Years later, Johnny has become a achievement addition acclaimed for actual adverse feats.

Before a decidedly alarming new stunt, Johnny meets his adolescence sweetheart Roxanne (Raquel Alessi/Eva Mendes), now a journalist, and makes a banquet date with her that evening. During the aforementioned time, Blackheart (Wes Bentley), Mephistopheles' son, comes to Earth to acquisition the absent arrangement and use its ability to affected his father. To ensure himself allies, he enlists the collapsed angels accepted as the Hidden, a leash of demon alcohol who represent three of the four elements � the water-demon Wallow (Daniel Frederiksen), the earth-demon Gressil (Laurence Breuls), and the air-demon Abigor (Mathew Wilkinson). In response, Mephistopheles makes Johnny the new Ghost Rider, and absolute that it was his ability that kept Johnny safe during all his stunts, alms Johnny his anatomy in acknowledgment for acquisition Blackheart. His admiral as Ghost Addition envoked, Johnny is active off by his bike at highspeed to area the arrangement was already active area Blackheart accustomed to acquisition a railroad base congenital it's abode and the graves confused to addition location. Assuming his Ghost Addition form, Johnny kills Gressil while the others escape. On his way out of the base he uses his Penance Stare on a mugger, abrogation the man catatonic; the mugger's victim gets away.

The abutting day, Johnny wakes in a cemetery chapel, area he meets a man alleged the Caretaker (Sam Elliott), who seems to apperceive all the history of the Ghost Rider. Aback he arrives home, Johnny finds Roxanne and tries to explain his situation, but she doesn't accept him. The badge access and booty Johnny into aegis for his affiliation to the accident done to the burghal and the deaths acquired by Blackheart, who by that time fabricated his way to a chruch to acquisition the area of the contract. Afterwards transformating in the bosom of actuality mugged by the abyss in the corpuscle he was placed in, Ghost Addition breach out to clue bottomward Blackheart. He fights and kills Abigor, in abounding appearance of Roxanne and abundant of the badge force. Observing the arena afterwards accepting the area of the contract, Blackheart realizes that Roxanne is Johnny's weakness.

Johnny goes for admonition to the Caretaker, who tells him of his predecessor, Carter Slade, a Texas Ranger accepted as a man of account afore his acquisitiveness became a acumen for him to be bedevilled to death. Slade fabricated a accord with Mephistopheles to breach free; in return, Slade became the Ghost Addition who hid the arrangement of San Venganza. The Caretaker again warns Johnny to break abroad from those whom Blackheart and the collapsed angels can use adjoin him. Johnny again allotment home to acquisition that Blackheart already has Roxanne. During their consistent fight, Johnny finds that his Penance Stare has no aftereffect on Blackheart, who has no (human) soul. Blackheart threatens to annihilate Roxanne if Johnny does not bear the arrangement to him.

Johnny allotment to the Caretaker to access the contract. Johnny guesses that the arrangement is active in one of the graves. He picks up a advertise and starts to dig. The Caretaker snatches the advertise and breach it, absolute the arrangement hidden in its alveolate handle. Though reminded of the consequences, Johnny asks the Caretaker to assurance him. The Caretaker again reveals that he is Carter Slade, accepting captivated on to his aftermost bit of ability in apprehension of this moment. He speculates that Johnny has God on his ancillary because he fabricated his accord with Mephistopheles because of adulation rather than acquisitiveness or desperation, and shows Johnny the way to San Venganza. They ride calm into the desert, both in Ghost Addition form; Slade is benumbed a abnormal horse which can accumulate up with Johnny's motorcycle. They stop a abbreviate ambit from the town, area Slade gives Johnny his pump-action shotgun and the admonishing to "stick to the shadows" afore crumbling away.

After killing Wallow, who was beatific to arrest for time, Johnny gives the arrangement to Blackheart. He bound transforms into Ghost Addition in an accomplishment to subdue Blackheart, but aurora comes and he is rendered powerless. Blackheart uses the arrangement to blot the thousand souls into his body, demography the name "Legion". He attempts to annihilate Johnny, but is absent aback Roxanne uses Johnny's dicarded shotgun to abstracted them. Afterwards she fails to abort Legion, Johnny takes the gun and moves into caliginosity to about-face the shotgun into a abnormal weapon and uses it to bang Legion apart. Legion re-forms, but Johnny moves in and uses his Penance Stare, fabricated able by the thousand souls inhabiting Legion's body, to cede him catatonic. Johnny turns abroad from Roxanne, abashed of his aberrant appearance; but she approaches him. As Roxanne acclamation Johnny's bald skull, he reverts to animal anatomy and the beef and bark and beard of his arch reappears.

Mephistopheles appears and gives Johnny aback his soul, alms to bethink him the accountability of Ghost Rider. Johnny refuses, adage that he will use his ability adjoin Mephistopheles, adjoin all abuse that comes to the innocent and avenge for his father. Infuriated of actuality beggared of the power, Mephistopheles vows to accomplish Johnny pay, to which Johnny in acknowledgment recites his admired saying: "You can't alive in fear". Mephistopheles again disappears, and Blackheart's anatomy dissipates with him. Johnny and Roxanne allotment words and a kiss at a timberline apparent to betoken their relationship, whereupon Johnny rides into the sunset. Slade's articulation again acts as narrator to abutting the film.

Cast

Actor Role

Nicolas Cage Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider

Eva Mendes Roxanne Simpson

Brett Cullen Barton Blaze

Wes Bentley Blackheart / Legion

Sam Elliott Carter Slade / Phantom Rider

Peter Fonda Mephistopheles

Donal Logue Mack

Matt Long Young Johnny Blaze

Raquel Alessi Young Roxanne Simpson

Daniel Frederiksen Wallow

Laurence Breuls Gressil

Mathew Wilkinson Abigor