<Li> Rebel Wilson as a girl in the alley </Li> <P> Marvel Studio began development for Ghost Rider as early as 1992 and were in discussions with potential distributors . In 1997 Gale Anne Hurd was listed as producer, with Jonathan Hensleigh attached to write the script . David S. Goyer developed a script and in May 2000 Marvel announced an agreement with Crystal Sky Entertainment to film Ghost Rider with actor Jon Voight attached as a producer . Production was scheduled to start in early 2001 with a budget of $75 million and Johnny Depp expressing interest in the lead role . The following August, Dimension Films joined Crystal Sky to co-finance the film, which would be directed by Stephen Norrington . Producer Avi Arad approached Eric Bana on the possibility of playing Ghost Rider, but opted to cast him in Hulk instead . In June 2001, actor and Ghost Rider fan Nicolas Cage entered talks to be cast into the lead role, after having found out about Depp being a possibility for the role and contacted the director to express his own interest . Norrington would drop out within a few months due his commitment to Tick Tock and Cage eventually left the project as well . By May 2002 Columbia Pictures sought to acquire rights to Ghost Rider in turnaround from Dimension Films following their success with Spider - Man . They brought Shane Salerno to rewrite Goyer's script . </P> <P> In April 2003, under Columbia Pictures, director Mark Steven Johnson took over the helm for Ghost Rider with Cage returning for the lead role . Johnson, rewriting Salerno's script, was set to begin production of Ghost Rider in late 2003 or early 2004 . but it was delayed to October 2003 . Cage took a temporary leave of absence to film The Weather Man . Ghost Rider production was slated to tentatively begin in May or June 2004 . </P> <P> Ghost Rider had again been delayed to begin in late 2004, but the lack of a workable script continued to delay production . In January 2005, actor Wes Bentley was cast as the villain Blackheart, having been introduced to Johnson by Colin Farrell, who had worked with the director in Daredevil . Actress Eva Mendes was also cast opposite Cage as Roxanne Simpson . On February 14, 2005, Ghost Rider commenced filming in Australia at the Melbourne Docklands film studios . Then in March 2005, actor Peter Fonda (who starred in Easy Rider) was cast as the villain Mephistopheles . Johnson originally planned to film before an audience at the Telstra Dome, but instead opted to create a crowd using computer - generated imagery . The director also chose to film in the motorcycle district of Melbourne . By June 2005, principal photography had been completed for Ghost Rider, which was set for a summer 2006 release . In April 2006, the cast and crew performed last - minute reshoots in Vancouver . Ghost Rider was originally scheduled to release on August 4, 2006, but the date was moved three weeks earlier to July 14, 2006 . Sony changed the film's release date once more to February 16, 2007 to help relieve the studio's crowded 2006 calendar . </P>

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