When he discovers his father's lung cancer, Johnny feels ashamed for his plans of leaving, but the very night a stranger proposes him to sell his very soul, in exchange of Barton's health. Renfield is in theaters everywhere. You can pick up tickets right now on Fandango.As a teenager, Johnny Blaze works with his father as a stunt motorcycle rider and he has a crush on Roxanne Simpson, who he wants to flee away with. I saw the fear in their eyes, and it was like oxygen to a forest fire. I would walk on the set looking like this, loaded with all these magical trinkets, and I wouldn't say a word to my co-stars or crew or directors. "I would sew in ancient, thousands-of-years-old Egyptian relics, and gather bits of tourmaline and onyx and would stuff them in my pockets to gather these energies together and shock my imagination into believing that I was augmented in some way by them, or in contact with ancient ghosts. To further help his performance along, Cage also added a few bells and whistles to the trademark leather jacket worn by Johnny's demonic alter ego. While none of this made it onscreen, you can see what the makeup looked like in this breakdown video of the film's VFX. "And I would put black contact lenses in my eyes so that you could see no white and no pupil, so I would look more like a skull or a white shark on attack." "He is a spirit of death but he loves children he's very lustful, so he's a conflict in forces," Cage continued. And man oh man, did he get weird, upping the insanity factor by the power of a hundred and painting his face in the skull-like style of an " Afro-Caribbean icon called Baron Samedi, or an Afro-New Orleans icon who is also called Baron Saturday," the actor revealed during an interview with Empire (via GeekTyrant). Everybody should."Ī brand new direction meant Cage was free to get weird. They want to do their own version and that's great. They give you a credit because you did the first movie, but that's it. "Same with Daredevil when they did the spinoff of Elektra, it was just a completely different thing. Completely different thing," Johnson told SYFY WIRE last fall. "That was just somebody else getting their take on it. Gimple ( The Walking Dead), and Seth Hoffman ( Prison Break).Īside from bringing Cage back into the fold, Spirit of Vengeance acts as a standalone adventure, essentially ignoring everything - both narratively and stylistically - about its predecessor, as Johnny teams up with a wine-swigging cleric named Moreau (played Idris Elba, who would enter the MCU as Heimdall in the first Thor just a few months later) to prevent the birth of an Antichrist. The screenplay, meanwhile, was credited to three different writers: David S. RELATED: 'Renfield' star Nic Cage says he doesn't feel the need to join the MCU: 'I'm Nic Cage'Ĭage returned to play fearless stunt rider turned flaming skeleton Johnny Blaze, with Crank filmmaking duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor taking over the directorial reigns from Mark Steven Johnson. With Renfield now in theaters, let's take a look back at Cage's unhinged performance in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance ( now streaming on Peacock), the 2011 sequel to 2007's Ghost Rider. So legendary, in fact, that entire lists have been devoted to the man's craziest on-set practices. His penchant for employing a special brand of method acting techniques - something Cage has dubbed "nouveau shamanism" - is quite legendary. To say he's an actor committed to his craft would be an understatement. Most recently, we learned that the dude filed his teeth down to play vampire Count Dracula in the new horror-action-comedy Renfield. Nicolas Cage has a habit of disappearing into film roles.
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