Nic Cage is in Romania shooting Ghost Rider 2 this week, and you would think he’d feel right at home there, given his well-known preference for bordello-style housing. (Bordellos are Romanian, right?  That sounds right.)  But judging by the video below, it appears that he got in some sort of fight, or loud argument there.  I like to imagine it was over poorly-made toast, and the part of the video you don’t see is him demanding to know why it might be burned.  Here’s some of what you do see:

Nicolas Cage:
“You know it! So do not try to escape! Otherwise, you kill me? F**k you! I die in honor! I could die right now! Want to hit me?”

Having a regular person pissed at you with bulging forehead veins is scary enough.  When it’s Nic Cage’s forehead, I imagine it’s like being face to face with the Wizard of Oz.
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BRAAAAAAAAAHM

In between making speeches at the United Nations about the horrors of 8-year-olds being forced to eat each other (I think Roman Polanski might take the opposite side of that debate — ZING!), Nic Cage found time to Tweet about Ghost Rider 2.  Just because he decided to take ac-TION doesn’t mean he’s not still an act-TOR.  Something he said made people wonder if he’d be playing both the hero and the villain in the Neveldine/Taylor flick, but Collider asked Taylor about it, and apparently that’s not the case. At least… not exactly.

According to the filmmaker, Cage will indeed be playing two roles, but not the villain as previously thought. Instead, Cage will play both Johnny Blaze and the Ghost Rider in the film. This contrasts with the original Ghost Rider where Cage played Blaze, but left his demonic alter-ego with the stunt team and special FX guys.

In regards to Cage’s tweet, which said: “The dual role of blaze/zarathos will be a nic cage classic”

Taylor had this to say: “zarathos is the spirit of vengeance that inhabits john blaze when he becomes ghost rider.  unlike the 1st movie, where the rider was stiffly acted out by a various stunt guys, nic will be playing all the ghost rider stuff himself – and we are creating a whole physical language for the demon that is different from the human blaze.”

Ghost Rider 2 is possibly the worst idea ever, but the Crank guys are kind of at their best when they’re shooting a really bad idea.  I’m picturing like two hours of Nic Cage cackling wildly while he dry humps old Mexican ladies.  As a filmmaker, there’s got to be nothing so gratifying as sitting down for a script meeting with Nic Cage and having him walk out of there so pumped that you can see him amping himself up in his head and doing that thing with his hands like in Gone in 60 Seconds.

Here’s today’s trade-news round up.  It’s not all retarded, but it mostly is.

Adam Sandler’s real movies are worse than his fake movies, plus, Al Pacino. Al Pacino and Katie Holmes are set to join Adam Sandler’s “Jack and Jill,” in which Adam Sandler plays Jack and his twin sister, Jill, who shows up for Thanksgiving and then won’t leave.  Holmes will play Sandler’s wife and Pacino will play himself, in a script from the writer of Paul Blart: Mall Cop.  (*90-minute mouth fart*). This will be the cinematic equivalent of a glass-bottom boat. |HollywoodReporter|

Eli Roth working on a full-length version of Thanksgiving, based on his Grindhouse trailer.  I really like this idea.  Mainly because that Judy chick seems like a real slut. |CinemaBlend|

Oscar the Death Cat. So there was this cat in a nursing home who would start hanging out with old people right when they were about to die, who supposedly correctly predicted the deaths of more than 50 people.  A doctor at the home wrote a book about it, and now the story is becoming a movie.  I don’t really know where you go with a movie about a cat that can predict old people dying any more than you could with an old man’s knee that could predict the weather, but I think a buddy flick about Oscar the cat that kills old people and the dog that hates blacks could be cool. |GordonandtheWhale|

Ghost Rider 2 happening, with Nic Cage, in 3D.  Unfortunately, they’ll have some technical kinks to work out first as the first guy who tried to capture Nic Cage’s forehead on a 3D camera traveled through a worm hole and ended up in a Victorian-era opium den.  |IESB|

This clip never gets old:
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Nic Cage recently sat down with MTV, who asked him about the possibility of Ghost Rider 2.  Cage was cagey (hee hee, wordplay!), but says he wants it to happen, and thinks it should be less a sequel and more a “reconceive.”  Yay, I love it when he nouns verbs!

MTV: So what exactly would you want to re-conceptualize?
Cage: I would make it much less of a western, and more of an international story. [Ghost Rider was a western? -Ed.]
MTV: So you’re more interested in Europe, and the church, and that sort of a thing?
Cage: Yeah.

So there you have it, Nic Cage wants to make a movie about a biker with a flaming skull, reconceived in such a way that it would involve the Catholic Church. But honestly, the best part of this interview was Nic Cage looking this thoughtful:

While sitting next to this picture:

So tell us, Mr. Cage, what sort of Eastern philosophies did you draw on for your role as Speckles the Star-Nosed Mole?  Was it a method performance?  Did you do a lot of Tai Chi?  Perhaps a master cleanse to clear your mind?  Please, take us into your process.

Ghost Rider, the film which may have permanently melted Nic Cage’s forehead, will have a sequel. Bloody-Disgusting reports that Cage will return as the star and that Columbia Pictures is currently looking for writers. In the 2007 original, Cage played Johnny Blaze, a stunt motorcycle rider who won a race with the devil or something like that which sounds like it was written by the dumb brother in Adaptation. 

No word yet on a possible plot for the sequel, but if I can be permitted a suggestion: Ghost Rider 2: Eyes of Noctum.

*singing death metal* I once vacationed in hell / We stayed at the Weston Cage…