![]() ![]() However, when Mephisto’s twisted son Blackheart tries to overthrow him from ruling Hell, Mephisto calls on Johnny to be his soldier in this war – as the Ghost Rider. Johnny, locked into the contract, spends years trying to avoid having to pay it back. ![]() Johnny Blaze, a carnival stunt-biker, sells his soul to Mephisto in exchange for his dad’s cancer to be cured… except, naturally, Mephisto then kills Johnny’s dad in another way. The first Ghost Rider film was your basic origin story. Johnny Depp apparently wanted the role of Johnny Blaze, such were the high expectations of the first one, but instead we got Nicolas Cage and things didn’t go as fans had hoped. Yet no films proved that making a good Marvel movie wasn’t easy more than the Ghost Rider films. For every Spider-Man there was a Punisher or Spider-Man 3, and for every average Fantastic Four film there was… well, an average Fantastic Four film. Even after failures like Howard the Duck and that awful Matt Salinger Captain America film were ancient history, times were still tough for them initially.įor every X-Men film’s success there was a Daredevil or Elektra film that bombed. ![]() With Black Panther cruising over the billion-dollar box office mark and Infinity War coming close to two billion, they dominate the movie industry.īut fans know that there was a darker time. These days it seems like any project with the Marvel name on it is destined for success. ![]()
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