Wednesday, October 6, 2010

"Ghost Rider" sequel adds Elba and Whitworth

According to the Hollywood Reporter, 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.

Based on the Marvel comic, the movie stars Nicolas Cage, returning as the demonic biker antihero, with Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor directing.

The story finds 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.

Elba recently came on board a new adaptation of James Patterson's best-selling Alex Cross books; he starts work on "Cross" in 2011.

Whitworth recently wrapped The Dark Fields with Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro and booked a leading role in FX's "Outlaw Country."

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  • Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum
  • Die Hard series
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Fracture
  • Idlewild
  • Imitation of Life
  • Inside Man
  • James Bond series
  • Love Jones
  • Malcolm X