History Trivia / GhostRider

** Creator/JonVoight was initially attached to produce the project, but dropped out due to unknown reasons..

** Creator/JohnnyDepp was interested in playing the title role. Creator/EricBana was also in heavy contention.
** Creator/JonVoight was attached to play Satan at one point, but dropped out.

* {{Jossed}}: Rumors persist that Creator/NicolasCage's abs in the movie were CGI, but Writer and Director Mark Steven Johnson refutes this on his DVDCommentary.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Nicholas Cage really, really likes Ghost Rider. He even has a Ghost Rider tattoo, which had to be covered by makeup for filming for obvious reasons.
* PromotedFanboy: Nicolas Cage is a huge Comicbook/GhostRider [[JustForFun/OneOfUs and comic book fanboy]], who has wanted to play Ghost Rider since he got into acting. He actually has the Rider tattooed on one arm; they had to cover the tat so he could portray the role.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The novelization ended with an explanation of how Johnny Blaze got off the murder charges, having "some hotshot New York lawyer" make a mockery of the prosecutor's case. Said lawyer was supposed to be [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]]. Which is almost certainly a ShoutOut to the original Ghost Rider concept. He was intended to be a Daredevil villain, but it was just too good of an idea.

* PromotedFanboy: Nicolas Cage is a huge Comicbook/GhostRider [[OneOfUs and comic book fanboy]], who has wanted to play Ghost Rider since he got into acting. He actually has the Rider tattooed on one arm; they had to cover the tat so he could portray the role.

** Another example: After Todd McFarlane did a crossover in adjectiveless Spider-Man where a now irrevocably insane Hobgoblin murdered innocent people/disfigured a kid to turn him into a goblin like creature, Howard Mackie spent two issues of Ghost Rider shitting on McFarlane's arc with a storyline where Hobgoblin kidnaps Ghost Rider's mom and doesn't kill her/have Spider-Man argue that Hobgoblin is possessed by demonic forces and tries (unsuccessfully) to get Ghost Rider to purge him of the said demonic forces.

** Scarecrow: It's also the codename of an enemy of a certain [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} caped crusader]] from the [[DCComics Distinguished Competition]].

** For modern readers, Robbie Reyes vs pretty much ALL of the modern SJW pandering heroes. Most consider Reyes to be the only good diversity themed hero Marvel has put out in the last five years and are actively bitter that Reyes was sidelined due to Secret Wars and Marvel pushing America Chavez, Mockingbird, Ms Marvel, and other female heroes. Meawhile the fans of the other female centric SJW characters hate Robbie Reyes, because he's male and popular with the older fans who the Alonso/Alto Marvel regime wanted to replace.

** Another example was the planned resolution to the 70s era story where Johnny Blaze met a guy who looked an awful lot like Jesus Christ. The original script for the finale for the storyline (which was intended to end the series) was that the man WAS Jesus and by becoming a born again Christian, Blaze would be cured of his curse. Editorial however decided to keep the series going and Tony Isabella's story rejected and replaced with the the stranger turning out to be a demon disguise as someone who looked like Jesus.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/GregWeisman stated he had interest in creating an animated series for Ghost Rider.

* NamesTheSame: Initially, in the late 40s, there was a western comic book character called Ghost Rider, who later had his own Marvel published magazine in the 60s. After the introduction of the modern Ghost Rider in the 70s, the character was renamed Night Rider and then Phantom Rider - though ''this'' was after a few clumsy attempts to integrate him into the Ghost Rider mythos properly.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Blackheart was in ''Film/AmericanBeauty.''
** The helicopter pilot is [[Manga/{{InuYasha}} [=InuYasha=]]] and [[Anime/RanmaOneHalf Ranma]].
** [[EnsembleDarkhorse Carter Slade]] was [[Film/{{Hulk}} General Thunderbolt Ross]]!

** The helicopter pilot is [[Manga/{{InuYasha}} [=InuYasha=]]] and [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma]].

* AwesomeDearBoy: Nicholas Cage really, really likes Ghost Rider. He even has a Ghost Rider tattoo.

** Lucifer: The X-men fought an alien who happened to be named Lucifer, in fact that alien is responsible for putting Charles Xavier in a wheelchair. He is a dangerous villain in his own right but not to be mistaken for the angel that started a war in heaven and is now bound in hell.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The novelization ended with an explanation of how Johnny Blaze got off the murder charges, having "some hotshot New York lawyer" make a mockery of the prosecutor's case. Said lawyer was supposed to be [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]]. Which is almost certainly a ShoutOut to the original Ghost rider concept. He was intended to be a Daredevil villain, but it was just too good of an idea.

** [[EnsembleDarkhorse Carter Slade]] is [[Film/{{Hulk}} General Thunderbolt Ross]]!

** Blackout: Also the name of an insane Nova villain. That one manipulates the dark force dimension but like this one ''also'' had an UnexplainedRecovery after civil war.

** Blackout: Also the name of an insane Nova villain is called. That one manipulates the dark force dimension but like this one ''also'' had an UnexplainedRecovery after civil war.

* NamesTheSame: Initially, in the late 40s, there was a western comic book character called Ghost Rider, who later had his own Marvel published magazine in the 60s. After the introduction of the modern Ghost Rider in the 70s, the character was renamed Night Rider and then Phantom Rider - though ''this'' was after a few clumsy attempts to integrate him into the Ghost Rider mythos properly. Best not confuse Lucifer, Lilith or Ba'al with characters from other marvel series either.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/GregWeisman stated he had interest in creating an animated series for Ghost Rider.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Blackheart was in ''AmericanBeauty.''

* For Spirit of Vengeance, Nicolas Cage prepared for the role by invoking [[{{Voudoun}} Baron Samedi]] and other death entities in makeup and costuming. Instead of just wearing basic mo-cap markers on his face, he wore full Baron Samedi facepaint, had Egyptian talismans and relics sewn into the leather jacket and gathering tourmaline and onyx in his pockets to "gather these energies together and shock his imagination into believing that [he] was augmented by them in some way, or in contact with ancient ghosts". Walking onto set not saying a word and weirding out the cast and crew, he believed he was the Ghost Rider.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: EvaMendes was offered to reprise her role in ''Vengeance'' but turned it down.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: EvaMendes was offered to reprise her role in ''Vengeance'' but turned it down.