Idris Elba Talks Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Idris Elba and Johnny Whitworth are in negotiations to join the cast of “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,” Columbia’s sequel to the 2007 hit.
The movie, with Nicolas Cage back as the demonic biker anti-hero, has Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor behind the cameras. Based on the Marvel comic, the pic is set to begin shooting in late November in Romania and Turkey.
The story sees Johnny Blaze, aka Ghost Rider (Cage), hiding out in remote Eastern Europe and struggling to repress his curse. Blaze is recruited by a sect to take on the devil (Ciaran Hinds), who wants to take over his mortal son’s body on the kid’s birthday.
Elba plays an alcoholic warrior monk tasked with finding Ghost Rider. Whitworth plays a criminal who is recruited by the devil to find the boy and is later turned into a demonic creature.
Neveldine and Taylor also wrote the script, working off a story by David Goyer. Avi Arad, Ari Arad, Michael De Luca, Ashok Amritraj and Steven Paul are producing.
Columbia will release the film in North America, and Hyde Park Entertainment has international distribution rights.
Elba recently came on board a new adaptation of James Patterson’s best-selling Alex Cross books; he starts work on “Cross” in 2011. The character previously was played by Morgan Freeman in “Along Came a Spider” and “Kiss the Girls.”
In the meantime, Elba next will be seen in the title role in the hit British detective drama “Luther,” which hits BBC America this month, and plays Heimdall in Marvel’s “Thor,” due in May.
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