Just caught this tidbit from Variety. We know that the first GR was filmed in Australia, but according to thisarticle, GR2 is heading that way for post production.
But I am really posting this because the name they use here threw me for the loop.... are my eyes deceiving me or are they calling it Ghost Rider: Salvation??
"Ghost Rider" (2004) Nicolas Cage starrer, helmed by Mark Steven Johnson, about the flaming vigilante. Produced by Columbia and Crystal Sky, effects work for the darker series reboot, "Ghost Rider: Salvation" is also heading Down Under to post house Iloura.
More here on the special effects on Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, with the correct name this time!
The usual warning applies; if you do not nwant to see the man behind the curtain and wish the film to retain all of it's mystery, read no further!
Iloura on Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance
There’s lots of flaming skulls and chain whips in the new trailer to Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance courtesy of Melbourne VFX house, Iloura.
As the largest vendor on the film, Iloura won a hefty 460 shots. Caroline Pitcher, Director of Marketing and Business Development said “We won it on our pitch which was a new flaming skull. We took burning embers and used an oily smoke.”
The software used, said Pitcher was “3D Studio MAX, Maya, Nuke which were out of the box, but of course it takes creativity to make it truly work. We did a bit of R&D ourselves using Fume FX, a software for fire, smoke and explosion to really workshop and refine how the flames look.”
Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor for Columbia Pictures, Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance is the sequel to Ghost Rider, starring Nicholas Cage as stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze who gave up his soul to become a combustable vigilante skeleton.
Released on 17 February 2012, “it’ll be a much darker film,” said Pitcher, “so it became a lot grittier and grungier and much more impactful on the eye.” That’s good news for those that thought the first 2007 film was a bit soft.
I agree, and I have to say , this is the third time Variety have got something pretty wrong in the past month or two, no longer will they be the gospel according to film for me!
But this time I am relieved they are mistaken, the new Ghost Rider movie is cemented in the universal consciousness as Spirit Of Vengeance!