“We kind of just took the visual of him and went from there.”
Though Columbia Pictures’ Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance will feature a comic book-inspired villain in Johnny Whitworth’s Blackout, MTV has learned that the connection to the original source material is primarily the look of the character and not the Marvel Universe backstory.
“We didn’t really honestly do a lot of research into the comic book version of Blackout,” says co-director Brian Taylor. “We kind of just took the visual of him and went from there.”
Introduced into the Marvel Universe in the early ’90s, Blackout was a thug for hire who, after being scorched by Ghost Rider’s hellfire, gained demonic powers and sought vengeance against the antihero (at that time Daniel Ketch, brother to Johnny Blaze).
In the film version, Blackout will, like Ghost Rider, be a creation of the devil (Ciaran Hinds) and his powers will effectively cancel one out Ghost Rider’s.
You can check out the full video interview with Taylor and Mark Neveldine in the player below:
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Source: MTV
