Ghost Rider, Cranked Up: Directors Neveldine and Taylor Talk

Who's wilder: Nicolas Cage, or his filmmakers?

We discussed many things with Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, including Gamer, Jonah Hex, Bai Ling, a possible Crank sequel in 3D and of course Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. If you think you can handle the full Beijing Cocktail of an interview, click here for more.

Nerdist News: We figured the combination of the two of you with Nicolas Cage would be a match made in heaven.

Mark Neveldine: We wanted Nic for Crank 1. He's our hero, since we were kids, and we've always wanted to work with him, so given the opportunity, we flipped over it.

NN: Is it true he painted his face for the scenes where he was Ghost Rider?

Brian Taylor: Yeah, that was one of the things he did to both motivate and get himself into the Ghost Rider zone, but it also had the effect of intimidating the hell out of the other actors he was working across from.

MN: Yeah, then on crew birthdays, he dressed up like a clown, which was really nice.

NN: Was it hard to restrain yourselves to a PG-13 rating?

MN: We knew it was PG-13 going in, so we just said hey, let's make this as PG-17 as we can. And we found out that you can obliterate as many people as you want by burning them to death and decaying them - about 200 people in our movie - but as long as you don't show blood, they're not gonna rate it R.

Get fired up with our full Neveldine/Taylor interview now. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance opens today.

Forward to a Buddy Invite a Buddy