Nicolas Cage Says He Wants An R-Rated Ghost Rider Movie With A Different Lead Star

It looks like Nicolas Cage is hoping to see Ghost Rider make a comeback on the big screen, but this time as an R-rated movie with a different actor playing Johnny Blaze.

Though the first Ghost Rider film wasn't the tentpole film that Sony set it out to be with its PG-13 rating, Cage tells JoBlo that he actually wishes that the film would've received a more mature rating. However while the Academy Award-winning actor hopes to see an R-rated Ghost Rider movie someday, Cage says that he'd rather see another actor playing the titular role.

"Y'know, Ghost Rider was a movie that always should've been an R-rated movie. David Goyer had a brilliant script, which I wanted to do with David and for whatever reason they just didn't let us make the movie. But that movie is a still a movie that should be made, not with me obviously, but it should be an R-rated movie-heck, Deadpool was R-rated and that did great. Ghost Rider was designed to be a scary superhero with an R-rating and edge and they just didn't have it worked out back then."

Though there might not be enough buzz to get Ghost Rider back on the big screen with a reboot, it'd definitely be interesting to see an R-rated version of the movie. The movie market's been more accepting of mature comic book movies ever since the advent of Deadpool and Logan's success, and Ghost Rider would do much better with an R-rating. Fans will just have to hope that the demand for a Ghost Rider reboot grows strong enough for the film to realize.

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