LOL: The International Steals Shot from Ghost Rider


/Film reader Tom H noticed that the same exact shot from Ghost Rider, was used in the new trailer for The International. Both films are produced by Columbia Pictures / Sony, so they obviously own the rights to the footage. In the Ghost Rider clip, which can be seen here, the car explodes as Ghost Rider rides by the car on his bike. In the International trailer, the Ghost Rider CG is absent, and the clip is shown right after someone enters something into an ATM machine. I’m assuming the clip is only used to make the trailer more exciting and won’t appear in the actual film. But you never know, last year we did find Michael Bay recycling footage shot for Pearl Harbor in Transformers.

  • nick
    wow, i thought that looked familiar!
  • YoungZe
    Embarrassing. That's not saying anything good about "The International" if they use stuff from such a horrible movie.
  • cant be good haha FAIL tho thats hilarious
  • Chris
    What's more embarrassing is someone actually studied the Ghost Rider trailer that closely.
  • H20
    That's fucked up. People at columbia probably wanted the film to feel more actiony than it probably actually is which kinda makes me a little more excited for it.
  • REAL6
    BWhahahahahaha@

    Chris Says:

    What’s more embarrassing is someone actually studied the Ghost Rider trailer that closely.
  • This is a frightening trend.
  • Agent Iron J
    Crazy... >_<
  • sari
    HA I totally forgot about Ghost Rider. Hot mess.
  • Josh
    another clip may be from Black Hawk down -- choppers flying over city -- not sure though
  • Elpizo
    @ Chris

    He probably wasn't really studying it, but remembered that shot. People have insane memories.
  • Captain Awesome
    haha someone actually "watched" the GH trailer that closely?
  • Captain Awesome
    oops, Chris said that already :P
  • Joseph Fritzl
    it is strange they would use that shot, aside from the fact its stolen from ghost rider.
    the rest of the movie looks shot reasonably well in practical locations, but that clip was done on a cheep movie set and looks pretty bad. it doesn't fit at all with the rest of the trailer.
    but whatevs. the movie doesn't wont be very good anyways.
  • Agent Iron J
    xD Captain Awesome botched! Thats crazy that they would do that.
  • Elpizo
    You people are so dense. =/
  • Trebek
    That is lame.

    Even if it was just for the trailer, which I'm guessing it isn't, it would still be lame. Whats the point of a trailer, if what you're seeing in the trailer isn't even in the movie? I think that is called false advertising, and is considered a crime actually. Either way...Lame.
  • Oh Blair
    nice!
  • Anti-Septic
    Sounds like a smart idea to me, save costs on production and stunts. Does every movie have to have its own original stunts? It would be nice but not every movie is a 200 million dollar blockbuster.

    Myself, I would never had noticed if it wasnt pointed out, it would have to be slap me in the face obvious to do so.
  • A.J.
    ha! Thats funny, but seriously, the less I hear about ghost rider the better. That movie was A.W.F.U.L.!
  • Oh Blair
    i'm still not sure how i feel about this, but that's funny

    great job slashfilm!
  • Loz
    This is nothing new.
    In the film,'Bullitt'
    at the very end, when Steve McQueens
    character is pursuing his assailant on
    foot; on a airplane runway there is a
    shootout as a plane is a about to take off
    There is a blindling beam of light and
    Mcqueen guns down man.
    In Michael Mann's 'Heat', there is a
    identical scene at the end;when
    Vincent Hanna pursues Neil McCauley
    on a airplane runway.Blinding beam of light
    .Hanna guns down McCauley.
  • R_McCall
    Wow, that is truly craptacular. Loz - note that there's a radical difference between using a shot taken for another film entirely (Ghost Rider) and placing it into your own film (International) and being positively "influenced" by a great film (Bullit) as was Mann in constructing the ending of Heat (killer film with a killer ending). It's not the same thing, not at all (yeah, I'm a Mann die-hard just settin' the record straight).
  • charles
    Another downfall in Clive Owens career. Sad, just sad.
  • gocitizen
    I don't see this as an indictment of the Tykwer film and, I'm guessing, it is more the part of Columbia marketting execs being horrible, lazy morons.

    I'm all for bigga badda boom, but since when does an explosion make or break a film?
  • Woulda fooled me, I walked out of ghost rider after 45 mins it was so dumb. Haven't seen anything from it since
  • Observation on the scene lifted from Black Hawk Down is correct.

    I blogged about it last week (with screen cap) http://redfezwriter.blogspot.com/2008/09/action...

    Lame and lazy, it seems to me.
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