How hard was it to come up with a worthy adversary for someone like Johnny Blaze?
Johnson: Really difficult, because when you’re Ghost Rider you’re the coolest guy in the world. Usually you’re villain was tougher than your hero and so you have to come up with someone who’s even harder. And as far as looks go, no one can look better than the Ghost Rider, no one can be cooler than that and so when we came up with the Blackheart idea—the son of the Devil is hard to beat, too. So we went big. Wes Bentley did a great job in that role. We couldn’t go bigger than that, because Ghost Rider is so big, and so to have a villain that’s even bigger—pretty soon it’s a goofy monster movie and you lose all the human elements of it. So we wanted to try and keep it human. HW: Are you signed to do a sequel? Cage: Well, my theory on sequels is that they have to be better than the original. So I’m open, but I just have to see a script and then talk about it, but I loved working with Mark and Eva. It would be great to do something again, but I just want to make sure that we can improve o
