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The 39 Clues
The 39 Clues
The Maze of Bones
One False Note
The Sword Thief
Beyond the Grave
The Black Circle
In Too Deep
The Viper's Nest
The Emperor's Code
Storm Warning
Into the Gauntlet
Vespers Rising
Cahills vs. Vespers
The Medusa Plot
A King's Ransom
The Dead of Night
Shatterproof
Trust No One
Day of Doom
Unstoppable
Nowhere To Run
Breakaway
Countdown
Flashpoint
Doublecross
Mission Titanic
Mission Hindenberg
Mission Hurricane
Mission Atomic
Superspecial
Outbreak
Author
Rick Riordan
Gordon Korman
Peter Lerangis
Jude Watson
Patrick Carman
Linda Sue Park
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Roland Smith
David Baldacci
Jeff Hirsch
Natalie Standiford
C. Alexander London
Sarwat Chadda
Jenny Goebel
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Adventure
Young adult
Publisher
Scholastic
Published
2008—present
Media type
Print (hardcover)
The 39 Clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda and Jenny Goebel. It consists of five series, The Clue Hunt, Cahills vs. Vespers, Unstoppable, Doublecross, and recently released, Superspecial. They chronicle the adventures of two siblings, Amy and Dan Cahill, who discover that their family, the Cahills, has been the most influential family in history. The first story arc concerns Dan and Amy's quest to find the 39 Clues, which are ingredients to a serum that can create the most powerful person on Earth.[1] This series' primary audience is age 8–12.[citation needed] Since the release of the first novel, The Maze of Bones, on September 9, 2008, the books have gained popularity, positive reception, and commercial success. As of July 2010[update], the book series has about 8.5 million copies in print and has been translated into 24 languages.[2] The publisher of the books is Scholastic Press in the United States. Steven Spielberg acquired film rights to the series in June 2008, and a film based on the books was set to be released in 2016 but production has not yet started as of October 2017.[3] The series also originated tie-in merchandise, including collectible cards and an interactive Internet game.
Contents
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1 The 39 Clues
1.1 The Maze of Bones
1.2 One False Note
1.3 The Sword Thief
1.4 Beyond the Grave
1.5 The Black Circle
1.6 In Too Deep
1.7 The Viper's Nest
1.8 The Emperor's Code
1.9 Storm Warning
1.10 Into The Gauntlet
1.11 Vespers Rising
2 Cahills vs. Vespers
2.1 The Medusa Plot
2.2 A King's Ransom
2.3 The Dead of Night
2.4 Shatterproof
2.5 Trust No One
2.6 Day of Doom
3 Unstoppable
3.1 Nowhere to Run
3.2 Breakaway
3.3 Countdown
3.4 Flashpoint
4 Doublecross
4.1 Mission Titanic
4.2 Mission Hindenburg
4.3 Mission Hurricane
4.4 Mission Atomic
5 Superspecial
5.1 Outbreak
6 Characters
7 Supplementary works
7.1 Cards
8 Themes
9 Origins
10 Reception
10.1 Awards
10.2 Critical reception
11 Film
12 See also
13 References
14 External links
The 39 Clues[edit]
The 39 Clues books and card packs as of August 2010.
The path Amy and Dan took in the first ten books.
The first series revolves around orphans Amy and Dan Cahill, who discover upon their grandmother's death that the Cahill family has shaped most of world history. Amy and Dan pursue the Clues while evading the sabotage of other Cahills. Each book chronicles one location which Amy, Dan, and their au pair Nellie travel to and focuses on one historical character associated with a Clue.
The Maze of Bones[edit]
Main article: The Maze of Bones
The Maze of Bones is the first book in the series, written by Rick Riordan and published on September 9, 2008.
Amy and Dan's grandmother, Grace Cahill, changes her will shortly before her death. At her funeral, her lawyer, William McIntyre, tells Dan, Amy, and their other relatives, of a choice between one million dollars and a chance to participate in the Clue hunting a treacherous path to power. Amy and Dan enter the Clue hunt, competing against more experienced Clue hunters: the Holts, Alistair Oh, the Starlings, the Kabras, Jonah Wizard, and Irina Spasky. Pursuing the clue hidden in Grace's library leads to the Franklin Institute. Then the Starlings get a serious injury made by the Holts, who had tried to kill Amy and Dan Cahill. There, Dan and Amy discover Benjamin Franklin has hidden a clue in Paris. After convincing their au pair, Nellie, to chaperone their trip, Amy and Dan travel to Paris, where they follow a trail of ciphers into the catacombs. Then, at an old church, they find the clue in a vial. The Kabras steal the vial, but Dan solves the puzzle and discovers the clue: "iron solute". Amy's internet searches lead to the probable location of the second Clue: Vienna, the home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
One False Note[edit]
Main article: One False Note
One False Note, second book in the series, was written by Gordon Korman and published on December 2, 2008.
On route to Vienna, the Holts steal the sheet music with a clue on it from Amy, Dan, and Nellie, forcing them to rely on Dan's photographic memory. They go to an archive to find the diary of Mozart's sister, Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart, only to discover that Jonah Wizard has stolen it. They steal the diary back. The diary leads them to Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace; their search there ends in an explosion which was caused by Amy and Dan's nemesis, the man in black. Dan, Amy, and Nellie then go to Venice, where Dan and Amy sneak into the Janus stronghold they steal a very important clue from the Janus and escape. Only to be kidnapped by the Kabras later. The Kabras let them go finding nothing on them. Then Dan reveals that he hid the clue on a boat before the Kabras captured them. They retrieve the clue and sneak into a museum. Ian and Natalie Kabra attack them and play Mozart's first harpsichord with the clue which is a few pages from Nannerl's diary that where cut out. Triggering a booby trap that knocks Ian out. Natalie gets hit with a dart from her dart gun that Dan throws at her. He and Amy find the second clue, tungsten, a pair of Japanese swords, and hint for their next destination.
The Sword Thief[edit]
Main article: The Sword Thief
The Sword Thief is the third book in the series. It was written by Peter Lerangis and published on March 3, 2009.
A pair of tungsten swords from Vienna leads Amy, Dan, and Nellie to Japan for a clue related to Japanese warrior Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Teaming up with Alistair Oh and the Kabras, the three follow a trail of clues to Korea, where they stay at Alistair's house. A book in Alistair's secret library leads them to a mountain called Pukhansan. The group finds an entrance to a cave that hides Hideyoshi's treasure, and the third clue, gold. Dan decodes an anagram and tricks the Kabras, who escape and seal everyone else in the cave. After escaping, Dan, Amy, and Nellie head for Egypt, as hinted in the anagram.
Beyond the Grave[edit]
Main article: Beyond the Grave
Beyond the Grave is the fourth book in the series. It was written by Jude Watson and published on June 2, 2009.
Dan, Amy, and Nellie arrive in the Hotel Excelsior, a stronghold built by Bae Oh, Alistair's uncle. Bae finds them in the hotel's stronghold and traps them. They find the fourth clue, half a gram of myrrh, through a Sakhet statue Grace left them. They barely escape with Nellie and their cat Saladin's help. Jonah Wizard later traps them in a deserted island on the Nile. Some local fisherman save them and return them to Egypt.
The Black Circle[edit]
Main article: The Black Circle
The Black Circle is the fifth book in the series. It was written by Patrick Carman and published on August 11, 2009.
After receiving a telegram from the mysterious "NRR", Dan and Amy leave for Russia. Upon their arrival, another hint from NRR leads them to a credit card and false passports belonging to their dead parents. NRR states she is Nataliya Ruslanova Radova, the daughter of the last Romanov, a Cahill. She escaped to live with a low profile. A blood disorder stops her from joining the Clue hunt. Amy and Dan make an alliance with the Holts, and discover a stronghold. It reveals the next clue, Amber.
In Too Deep[edit]
Main article: In Too Deep (The 39 Clues)
In Too Deep is the sixth book in the series. It was written by Jude Watson (who also wrote Beyond the Grave) and published on November 3, 2009.
Dan and Amy head to Sydney, Australia, to learn about what their parents knew about the 39 Clues from their dad's cousin, Shepard Trent. They discover that Ian and Natalie's mother, Isabel Kabra, has joined the hunt. Isabel tries to feed Amy to sharks, but Hamilton Holt foils her plot. The siblings survive Isabel's second assassination attempt and follow a clue to Krakatau (the ring of fire), where they meet Alistair. Isabel sets fire to their hut. Irina Spasky dies while saving Amy, Dan and Alistair. After the fire, Alistair shows Dan and Amy a message by Robert Cahill Henderson, revealing the clue, water. Near the end of the book, they suspect that Nellie is spying on them for someone else.
The Viper's Nest[edit]
Main article: The Viper's Nest
The Viper's Nest is the seventh book in the series. It was written by Peter Lerangis and published on February 2, 2010.
The morning after the fire that killed Irina Spasky, Dan and Amy discover that Irina's last words are a song, which points them to their next destination: Pretoria, South Africa. They infiltrate a Tomas stronghold, and the Holts chase them. As Dan and Amy leave South Africa, the Kabras capture them. Flying Grace's old plane The Flying Lemur, the siblings escape with a vial of green liquid. During a quarrel, the vial breaks, and the green liquid, a Kabra poison, spills onto Dan's arm. To save Dan, they fly to Grace Cahill's home in Madagascar, where they find out that the clue is aloe and their parents were Madrigals, an organization Amy and Dan have learned to fear, meaning that they themselves are Madrigals.
The Emperor's Code[edit]
Main article: The Emperor's Code
The Emperor's Code is the eighth book in the series. It was written by Gordon Korman and published on April 6, 2010.[4]
Amy and Dan go to China to find the next clue. They split up following an argument but reunite at Mount Everest, where they find a Janus vial left by British mountaineer George Mallory. They battle Eisenhower Holt and Ian Kabra over a partial serum. Ian falls, and Amy sacrifices the serum to save him. When Dan thinks they have lost the clue, Amy shows him the poem on a silk fabric they found in Beijing and tells him the next clue is raw silkworm secretion. They realize that a formula on the silk means that four partial serums add up to one master serum. Dan shows Amy the locket he found at a Shaolin temple, which contains an inscription of the name of the pirate Anne Bonnie. They decide their next destination is the Caribbean.
Storm Warning[edit]
Main article: Storm Warning (The 39 Clues)
Storm Warning is the ninth book in the series. It was written by Linda Sue Park and published on May 25, 2010.
Amy and Dan continue their hunt in the Bahamas and Jamaica. They distrust Nellie after discovering that she works for William McIntyre. First, they go to Oceanus, an amusement park in the Bahamas. Dan enjoys all of the rides for two hours, and he meets up with Nellie and Amy seven minutes after two p.m. Amy tells Dan about the Jolly Codger Pirate's Cove Tour, which takes tourists on a boat to islands frequented by famous pirates. Amy and Dan reluctantly agree when Nellie says that she is going with them. When the tour docks at a cove, the first mate gives Amy and Dan a piece of paper with a message on it. They decode it and find out that is says " EAST END OF ISLAND. CAVE.". Meanwhile, Natalie Kabra recounts how she had been experiencing nightmares for a week about Dan and Amy almost dying while being pushed to a propeller by her mother Isabel, and there is no sound except for laughter. The Cahills find a Tomas bear claw in the cave. However, Amy is injured when the tide comes in and she hits her head on rocks. Soon, the group decides to head out of Bahamas to Jaimaca. At the Montego Bay airport, they find a hotel and settle in. Following a lead, they head to Spanish Town, and continue the hunt. They also meet a historian and librarian, Lester, and his grandma, Miss Alice. They learn that Nellie's family has been connected with the Cahills in many ways. They head out to the Port Royal excavation site with Lester, and find a box Grace donated that can fit the objects they collected. They cannot open the box. They are then chased by Isabel's thugs. Lester, who had the box, leads them into quicksand, but gets stuck himself, and drowns. Afterwards, the siblings quit the hunt. Instead of driving them to the airport, Nellie stops at Moore town and gives the box to an infamous "Man In Black", who has been following Dan and Amy, he gives the siblings one hour to open the box. They figure out that on the strip they found is an unfolded Möbius strip. Amy inserts the strip to the final slit and the box springs open. It contains a poem by Madeleine Cahill (the fifth child of Gideon and Olivia Cahill, unbeknownst to all but Olivia) and the clue of mace. The mystery man reveals his true identity as Fiske Cahill, Amy and Dan's great-uncle and Grace's younger brother. He reveals the existence of the Madrigal branch, a previously unknown part of the Cahill family, and grants them and Nellie active Madrigal status. After reading the poem, Dan concludes that the siblings' next stop is England.
Into The Gauntlet[edit]
Main article: Into the Gauntlet
Into The Gauntlet is the tenth and penultimate book in the series. It was written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published on August 31, 2010.
All the Cahills go to the Globe Theater in London and fight over a note. Amy and Dan get most of the note, while others come out with nothing or a little hint. All the teams arrive at the home of the founder, Gideon Cahill, on an island. Isabel Kabra captures them and threatens to kill their loved ones if they do not reveal their clues. She gets them to reveal their clues by threatening their loved ones and makes the serum, but Amy smashes the serum over Isabel's head, knocking her out. The last clue is the serum formula, which Dan memorizes, but no one wants it anymore. Amy and Dan reunite the Cahills, who are all going to have different lives now. They go back to their normal lives, each earning two million dollars.
Vespers Rising[edit]
Main article: Vespers Rising
Vespers Rising is the eleventh and final book in the original series, published on April 5, 2011. Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman, and Jude Watson each penned a plot line. The first describes Cahill ancestor Gideon's discovery of the master serum and betrayal by his friend and first Vesper, Damien Vesper. The second recounts the life of Gideon's daughter, Madeline, and her attempt to reunite the Cahill family, protect her father's ring, and outwit Damien Vesper from acquiring it. The third tells of Grace's first mission to Casablanca, as she competes against Vesper agent General George S. Patton to retrieve Gideon's ring. The fourth passage describes Amy and Dan's retrieval of Gideon's ring that Grace bequeathed to Amy, while escaping Casper Wyoming, a Vesper agent.
Cahills vs. Vespers[edit]
Cahills vs. Vespers is the second series in The 39 Clues franchise. It revolves around the now united Cahill family fighting the Vespers.
The Medusa Plot[edit]
Main article: The Medusa Plot
The Medusa Plot is the first book in the series, written by Gordon Korman.
Two years after the Clue hunt, all who succeeded in finding Gideon's serum recipe have united. The feud between the Cahills has ended, and the family unites to battle a new enemy: the Vespers, a secret organization led by Vesper One who have been the Cahills' enemies since the time of their ancestor Gideon. Members of the Cahill family are kidnapped and will be returned only if Dan and Amy follow Vesper One's instructions.
A King's Ransom[edit]
Main article: A King's Ransom
A King's Ransom is the second book in the series. It was written by Jude Watson and published on December 6, 2011.
Amy and Dan are in Santa Maria Novella train station in Florence when they come across a girl named Vanessa Mallory, who is Cheyenne Wyoming in disguise, and use her as a distraction to get into the train for Lucerne, Switzerland, where Vesper One is sending them for their next mission: find the De Virga world map. From information translated from German de Virga map archives, Amy concludes that they have to search Neuschwanstein Castle. Amy and Dan find a black notebook owned by Sparrow, a.k.a. Jane Sperling, at the castle. Inside is a note that leads to the de Virga map.
Analysis comes from the Cahill Command Center about the notes: they refer to a Johannes Kepler book recovered from the castle. The Cahills go to the book's current location at the Library of Philosophy and Cosmology in Prague but cannot enter without a reference. After going to Sedlec Ossuary on a hunch from the Command Center, they discover a Vesper One report on a flash drive and the initials AJT, Arthur Josiah Trent, carved on the wall, which shocks Dan because Arthur was their father. Erasmus, a Cahill, explains that Arthur was initiated into the Vespers but later cut off ties with them. After a Cahill helps Dan and Amy enter the Library of Philosophy, they bump into Jake and Atticus, who help the siblings. Inside, Katja Mavel, the library director, gives them what they want. They find the map in the book. In Rome, a Vesper dressed like a waiter kills William McIntyre, who leaves a secret message in his shoe before he dies. Back in Prague, Amy and Dan tell Atticus what they are doing, and Atticus reveals his involvement as a Guardian, a separate family allied with the Cahills. Dan connects Il Milione and the map to Samarkand, Uzbekistan - their next destination. Vesper One asks them to drop off the package at the Astronomical Tower, near the statue of Jan Hus. They do, but the Vespers kidnap Atticus, who followed them. Vesper One now knows Dan and Amy have been hiding Marco Polo's epilogue and explains that Atticus was the price of keeping it from him. Minutes later, AJT sends another message to Dan's phone.
The Dead of Night[edit]
The Dead of Night
Author
Peter Lerangis
Series
Cahills vs. Vespers
Published
March 6, 2012 (2012-03-06)
Preceded by
A King's Ransom
Followed by
Shatterproof
The Dead of Night is the third book in the series. It was written by Peter Lerangis and published on March 6, 2012.
The Vespers have Atticus Rosenbloom and will kill him if Dan and Amy do not comply with their demands. Vesper One commands Amy and Dan to find a stale orb, an anagram for astrolabe. They fly to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, to find the astrolabe. Atticus escapes, and Dan suspects that his father murdered William McIntyre and is Vesper One. Ian goes to New York, suspecting Isabel to be Vesper One, and Isabel manipulates him into staying by saying that the other Cahills are not his friends. The hostages are rumored to be in Argentina because of a lizard Nellie holds in a photo. Dan has gathered seventeen ingredients of the thirty-nine for his own master serum. He has also been receiving texts from a Vesper claiming to be his father, so he texts back a question to confirm this and is shocked that the answer is correct.
Shatterproof[edit]
Shatterproof
Author
Roland Smith
Series
Cahills vs. Vespers
Published
September 4, 2012 (2012-09-04)
Preceded by
The Dead of Night
Followed by
Trust No One
Shatterproof is the fourth book in the series. It was written by Roland Smith and published on September 4, 2012.[5]
Amy and Dan must steal the Golden Jubilee diamond from Berlin's Pergamon Museum to keep Vesper One from killing a Cahill. The Diamond is too well protected, but they escape from security. Vesper One reveals that they were merely a distraction, and he has what he needs. He tells them to find the "Apology", a Roman article written by a soldier. Jonah, Hamilton, and Erasmus work on tracking down Luna Amato, a Vesper, for information on William McIntyre's murder. Luna kills Erasmus, but Jonah kills her. The hostages try to escape, but the Vespers stop them. Phoenix, a hostage, falls off a cliff but survives and gets away. Before they escape, Casper and Cheyenne inform Amy and Dan of Phoenix's supposed death.[6]
Trust No One[edit]
Trust No One
Author
Linda Sue Park
Series
Cahills vs. Vespers
Published
December 4, 2012 (2012-12-04)
Preceded by
Shatterproof
Followed by
Day of Doom
Trust No One is the fifth and penultimate book in the series. It was written by Linda Sue Park, the author of Storm Warning, and was published on December 4, 2012.[7] The novel features Isabel and takes place in Brazil.[8]
Vesper One tells Amy and Dan to go to Yale and steal the Voynich Manuscript, Folio 74. Evan finds out that Sinead is Vesper Three. She blocks Evan's messages, but Amy finds out, and the two fight before Sinead flees. Amy then apologizes to Ian, and they find that the folio is missing. After meeting Dave Speminer (a friend of the Rosenblooms' mother, Astrid), Atticus remembers something that his mom said to him before dying: Missing Voynich with LaCher. Vesper One streams a video of Nellie, telling them of Alistair's death. They check Astrid Rosenbloom's email for clues about the folio's location. A coded email directs them to the Iguazu Falls in Brazil. During a capoeira performance, a capoeirista "accidentally" injures Atticus. At the Falls, a second attack occurs, and a blow dart coated with curare hits Dan, but a nearby doctor saves him from the poison. They realize Isabel Kabra orchestrated the attacks and that there will be one more.
A taxi driver takes them to Mabu Thermas Hotel and Spa and sees Dan's new wallpaper on his laptop, one of the "plumbing pictures" in the Voynich. At the spa, they meet LaCher Siffright, who has Folio 74. LaCher protects Atticus from the third attack: a man who throws a knife and a skewer at Atticus. They find the folio and realize that Archimedes plays a part in the Vespers' master plan. They suspect Isabel to be Vesper One and ask Hamilton and Jonah to find out more about Archimedes. Amy is tricked into giving Vesper One Gideon's ring, which Grace entrusted her with. They find out the Vespers' master plan: to build the Machina Fini Mundi, a doomsday device. Traumatized by her betrayal, Amy hides in her own mind, blocking out the real world. Dan decides that the team should go to Attleboro. He believes that to combat a doomsday device, he needs the serum which he recently created, and he drinks an unknown liquid an Ekaterina scientist manufactures.
Day of Doom[edit]
Day of Doom
Author
David Baldacci
Series
Cahills vs. Vespers
Published
March 5, 2013 (2013-03-05)
Preceded by
Trust No One
Followed by
Nowhere to Run
Day of Doom is the sixth and final book in the Cahills vs. Vespers series. It is written by David Baldacci and published on March 5, 2013.
Continuing from the last chapter of Trust No One, Dan drinks the "serum" that he made with the help of an Ekaterina scientist, but Amy reveals that she replaced the real serum with a mixture of vegetables. Amy tells Dan that Isabel Kabra is Vesper Two, not Vesper One, and that she is flying to Washington, D.C. Following a clue from Astrid, Amy and Dan go to the National Museum of Natural History, which houses the largest collection of Lewis and Clark items. On the train, Vesper One sends them a video of the hostages. Atticus realizes that Ted is blinking Morse code and decodes the message: Riley McGrath is Vesper One. At the museum, they find out that Isabel wanted to see Lewis and Clark's compass. Dan sees numbers and letters scratched onto the back of the compass. Evan and Ian receive a call from Phoenix from a motel in Washington state and head there with Hamilton and Jonah, whom Sandy, Casper, and Cheyenne follow. Disguised as a waitress, Cheyenne forces them into a van, taking them to the Rocky Mountains. Dan decides to take a train to the Cascade Mountain Range, where they believe the hostages and the Machina Fini Mundi are. Atticus grows suspicious of Dave and finds out that Dave Speminer is an anagram of Damien Vesper, the founder of the Vespers. Dan learns that Isabel had been posing as his father and sending the text messages. Isabel kidnaps Atticus, steals the serum in Dan's bag, and escapes. Amy discovers that Isabel modified the coordinates etched on the compass's reverse. The location of the hostages and the Machina Fini Mundi turns out to be on the Rocky Mountains.
The Vespers move the hostages from the Cascades to the Rockies. En route, the hostages break free and incapacitate Sandy, Casper, and Cheyenne and meet up with Amy, Dan, Atticus, and Jake. They find the Machina Fini Mundi and battle the Vespers. The Vespers fatally shoot Evan, while the device electrocutes Natalie. Amy turns the Machina Fini Mundi into a giant electromagnet. When the Vespers come, the device disarms and electrocutes them. Sandy and Damien arrive and hand out stone weapons. Isabel, having drunk Dan's serum and seeking revenge for her children, arrives and tries to stop Damien from inserting the final piece. The device activates, but Isabel destroys it. Damien melts into the device, causing an explosion, which kills Damien and Isabel. In the aftermath, Amy, Sinead, and Dan discuss how they will return to their normal lives.
Unstoppable[edit]
Unstoppable is the third series in The 39 Clues franchise. It was revealed in Publishers Weekly on October 25, 2012. Jude Watson wrote the story arc for the series. The first novel, Nowhere to Run by Jude Watson, was published in 2013, followed by Breakaway by Jeff Hirsch, Countdown by Natalie Standiford,[9] and the last book, Flashpoint by Gordon Korman,[10] in 2014.
Nowhere to Run[edit]
Nowhere to Run
Author
Jude Watson
Series
Unstoppable
Published
October 1, 2013 (2013-10-01)
Preceded by
Day of Doom
Followed by
Breakaway
Nowhere to Run is the first book in the series. It was written by Jude Watson.
J. Rutherford Pierce, a presidential candidate, attacks Amy and Dan and steals the serum from the safekeeper, Sammy Mourad, to use its power to conquer the world. Using the serum he makes himself a media empire he uses to attack Amy and Dan's reputation. This leads the siblings to go to a safehouse in Ireland where they find a book written by Gideon's wife Olivia, which contains the serum's antidote. Friends and family help Amy and Dan go to Troy where they find six whiskers of an Anatolian leopard, the antidote's first ingredient. Meanwhile, Pierce kidnaps Sammy, a Cahill student who made the serum with Dan in Trust No One, as part of his plan to mass-produce the serum and build an army for world domination. Nellie disguises herself as a chemist to be hired by Pierce and rescue Sammy from Trilon Laboratories.
Breakaway[edit]
Breakaway
Author
Jeff Hirsch
Series
Unstoppable
Published
January 28, 2014 (2014-01-28)
Preceded by
Nowhere to Run
Followed by
Countdown
Breakaway is the second book in the series. It was written by Jeff Hirsch. It documents the continuing struggle between the Cahills and Pierce. It also documents deteriorating relations between the Cahills.
Countdown[edit]
Main article: Countdown (The 39 Clues)
Countdown is the third book in the Unstoppable series. It was written by Natalie Standiford. The cover features a broken Mayan artifact, as the book primarily takes place in Tikal, Guatemala. The book cover is also colored orange.
In London, England, J. Rutherford Pierce meets with the Queen of England. However, his wife Debi Ann curtsies when Pierce told her not to, and Pierce later breaks one of the Queen's teacups while experiencing a tremor due to the serum. He tries to turn the mishap to his favor by saying that the teacup was too old and that it was time that the Queen got new china. However, the Queen is not pleased. Pierce reflects on how the Cahills are his last opponent to world domination, and vows to kill them. In Guatemala City, Guatemala, the Cahills and Rosenblooms are at the La Aurora International Airport. However, they see paparazzi who are sent by Pierce who publicize their every move. As they escape, they hear rude remarks from the paparazzi and passengers at the airport alike. They escape to their waiting chopper, and make a close escape. They see that Pierce's soldiers are after them, too; their orders are to kills the Cahills but to make it look like an accident. The soldiers' breath smells like green kale mixed with chlorine and ammonia. After the chopper takes off, one of Pierce's men jumped extremely high, due to the serum. The chopper is on its way to Tikal, where the kids have to look for riven crystal in order to complete the antidote to the serum Pierce and his thugs have taken. Dan, Atticus, and Jake are all ignoring Amy because of how she left them behind while embarking on a dangerous mission. Amy also told Jake, her former boyfriend, how she had never loved him. Amy decides that she would rather have her loved ones "angry and alive than dead". Amy also hears the clink of the serum that Sammy Mourad had made for her, just in case. As the group discusses the riven crystal and Tikal, a national park and archaeological treasure uncovered in 1956, the chopper suddenly shakes. The pilot, who is wearing a parachute, had been hired by Pierce to jump out and crash the helicopter, in an attempt to kill the Cahills. The group finally fights off the pilot, and Amy takes the controls. She unsteadily flies it to Tikal, where the chopper falls thirty vertical feet onto a pok-a-tok court. Miraculously, the group survives with few injuries. A ranger picks them up and tells them information about Tikal. At their hotel room, the kids ask Pony to do a search on Debi Ann, who is a Cahill. Later, Atticus uses Olivia Cahill's book to find out the location of the riven crystal. Meanwhile, in Trilon Laboratories in Delaware, Nellie Gomez, acting as Nadine Gormey, makes contact with Sammy Mourad, who is being held in the building to improve the serum for Pierce. In Attleboro, Massachusetts, Pony works on getting information about Debi Ann, though it is difficult. Meanwhile, in Tikal, as the group is searching for the crystal, Pierce's thugs ambush them, and Dan nearly dies. Amy takes the serum in order to save Dan, but now she only has a week to live. In Delaware, Dr. Brent Bechelheimer is trying to expose Nellie as a fraud, but she uses pictures of his gnoming hobby in order to portray him as unstable. Meanwhile, Amy is experiencing side effects that will soon kill her. As events progress, Nellie discovers that Jeffrey Callendar is experimenting on Fiske Cahill. In Tikal, Hamilton, Atticus, Ian, and Jonah try to find out if Amy and Dan have recovered Olivia's book, and try to find the riven crystal. Nellie tells Pony to warn Amy and Dan that they are heading into a trap. However, even though the riven crystal is found, Dan is abducted, Pony is killed by Pierce's thugs, and Nellie and Sammy are captured at Trilon Laboratories.
Flashpoint[edit]
Main article: Flashpoint (Korman novel)
The fourth and last book in the Unstoppable series, Flashpoint was written by Gordon Korman. The cover is purple, with green pieces of broken glass. The glass is shaped to form the symbols of the Cahill branches- Tomas, Janus, Ekaterina, Lucian, and Madrigal. However, at the end of the book, a note is attached that reads: "Sirs, The time has come to wake the dragon. X." The letter also has the Ekaterina branch symbol, which is a dragon.
The book begins with Dan Cahill, who was abducted by Cara and Galt Pierce. He thinks about the last twelve hours, in which great horrors took place. For example, Pierce is nearly president, Pony was killed trying to save Dan, and Amy only has a few more days to live due to the undiluted serum she took to save Dan. Galt and Cara Pierce, the children of J. Rutherford Pierce, begin to interrogate Dan by injecting him with sodium pentothal, or truth serum. They ask him about the antidote to the serum which Dan and the others are trying to create. That was when Cara Pierce ditched her family, or rather, Galt and Rutherford. Galt states how Pierce decoded Olivia Cahill's Household Book, which tells how to create the antidote. However, Dan retaliates by saying how Pierce "figured out our secret recipe for potato salad". By the end of the interrogation, they have confirmed that the last antidote ingredient is in Angkor, Cambodia. Angkor was one of the most developed societies of the ancient world. Dan inhales chloroform in order to pass out. Galt repeatedly wants to kill Dan, while Cara wants to keep him for further interrogation. Dan soon after escaped, with the help of Cara. They plan to fly to Cambodia in order to thwart the Cahills' plans.
Doublecross[edit]
Main article: Doublecross (series)
On April 26, 2014, at the New Hampshire Worlds Collide event, Scholastic announced a fourth series titled Doublecross.[11] The series began with Jude Watson's Mission Titanic (2015),[12][13] followed by C. Alexander London's Mission Hindenburg (2015)[14][15] and Jenny Goebel's Mission Hurricane (2016). The series concludes with Sarwat Chadda's Mission Atomic published on June 28, 2016. Amy, Dan, and their allies try to thwart the Outcast's plans of mass destruction.
Mission Titanic[edit]
Mission Titanic
Author
Jude Watson
Series
Doublecross
Published
February 24, 2015 (2015-02-24)
Preceded by
Flashpoint
Followed by
Mission Hindenburg
Mission Titanic is the first book in the Doublecross series. It was written by Jude Watson, and published on February 24, 2015.
At only seventeen years old, Ian Kabra is head of the Cahills, the most powerful family in the world. He has presidents on speed dial and generals at his beck and call. Ian knows he’s an ideal leader and the only man enough for the job.
There’s just one small problem: He’s already messed up big-time. A Cahill from the past calling himself the Outcast has risen to challenge Ian with an impossible test. The Outcast has re-created four of history’s greatest disasters and dared Ian to stop him. If Ian and his allies can’t decipher the Outcast’s hints in time, innocent people will die. Ian’s only chance to beat the Outcast is to track down his former allies, Amy and Dan.
But finding Amy and Dan will demand an impossible sacrifice from Ian.
Mission Hindenburg[edit]
Mission Hindenburg
Author
C. Alexander London
Series
Doublecross
Published
July 28, 2015 (2015-july-28)
Preceded by
Mission Titanic
Followed by
Mission Hurricane
Mission Hindenburg is the second book in the Doublecross series. It was written by C. Alexander London, and published on July 28, 2015.
The Cahills are the world's most powerful family, but their strength is being tested. A sinister man calling himself The Outcast has targeted the family and set them an impossible test. He's recreating four of history's worst disasters and challenging the young Cahills to find and stop the tragedies before it's too late. Now, with one disaster behind them, siblings Dan and Amy Cahill and their friends have just days to discover what the Outcast's next move will be.
Their frantic search seems to be pointing toward a terrifying air disaster, the explosion of the Hindenburg airship. But no one travels by airship anymore—what do the Outcast's cryptic messages mean? The young Cahills must split up and take to the skies to try to find the answer . . . before their whole world comes crashing down.
Mission Hurricane[edit]
Mission Hurricane
Author
Jenny Goebel
Series
Doublecross
Published
January 26, 2016 (2016-jan-26)
Preceded by
Mission Hindenburg
Followed by
Mission Atomic
Mission Hurricane is the third book in the Doublecross series. It was written by Jenny Goebel, and published on January 26, 2016.
Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, know that a disaster is about to strike the world. They know they are the only ones who can stop it, and they know they may already be too late. The person behind the disaster is their own relative, a man who calls himself the Outcast. He's already re-created two of history's worst disasters, and is only biding his time before he strikes again.
The clues that the Cahill kids have gathered suggest that the Outcast's latest disaster is modeled after Hurricane Katrina. But what city will he target? And how can anyone conjure up a hurricane? Dan and Amy have no answers and very little time to find them. All they can count on is a tidal wave of trouble coming, and only them to stand in its way.
Mission Atomic[edit]
Mission Atomic
Author
Sarwat Chadda
Series
Doublecross
Published
June 28, 2016 (2016-june-28)
Preceded by
Mission Hurricane
Followed by
Outbreak
Mission Atomic is the fourth and final book in the Doublecross series. It was written by Sarwat Chadda, and published on June 28, 2016.
Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, are running out of time. An exiled Cahill known as the Outcast has already recreated three of history’s worst disasters, and he’s saved the worst for last. If Dan and Amy can’t find and stop the Outcast fast, he will initiate a full-scale nuclear meltdown.
But as Dan and Amy race around the world, they discover something horrifying. The Outcast’s disasters are only a smokescreen to cover up his true plan, a diabolical revenge on the family that betrayed him. Soon Amy and Dan will have to confront a hard truth: Sometimes the only way to save the world is to sacrifice everything you love. The book begins with the gang in Ian's apartment in London. The group decides to split up to fight the Outcast. First, Dan, Sammy, and Nellie will head to the Black Forest in Germany to check out one of the Outcast's former labs. Meanwhile, Amy, Jonah, and Hamilton will head to Shanghai, China, to look into an exposition with many Ekats in attendance while Cara and Ian head to Ukraine to look into the Chernobyl disaster.
Superspecial[edit]
Superspecial is the fifth and final series in The 39 Clues franchise. The series consists of only one standalone novel.
Outbreak[edit]
Outbreak
Author
C. Alexander London
Series
Superspecial
Published
September 27, 2016 (2016-september-27)
Preceded by
Mission Atomic
Outbreak is the first and final book in the Superspecial series, and the final book in The 39 Clues franchise.[16] It was written by C. Alexander London and published on September 27, 2016.[17]
Characters[edit]
Main article: List of The 39 Clues characters
Supplementary works[edit]
Scholastic has expanded the 39 Clues universe with several books. In 2010 Scholastic published Agent Handbook, which explores the techniques that the clue hunters in the series use to find clues, and The Black Book of Buried Secrets, which provides more information about events in the series.[18][19] In the last week of December 2011, the Scholastic editorial team released seven short stories as part of The 39 Clues: Rapid Fire e-book series.[20] The editorial team has also released "The Cahill Files", which includes Operation Trinity, Spymasters, and four e-books. As part of the multimedia interactive experience to promote the series, Scholastic includes six cards in each book of the 39 Clues series. Each card leads to one online clue, which readers can unlock by entering the code on the cards on their 39 Clues account online.[21]
Cards[edit]
The 39 Clues uses collectible cards to expand readers' experience of the series.[citation needed] In the first series of books, The Clue Hunt, each book came with six game cards. These cards all shared the same code and once added online would unlock the clue in that book. Alongside the first series of books, Card Packs were sold. These card packs contained 16 random cards out of a total of roughly 50 that were not available in the books. The card packs were:
Card Pack for books 1, 2 and 3
Card Pack 2: Branch vs. Branch for books 4, 5 and 6
Card Pack 3: Rise of the Madrigals for books 7 and 8
Ultimate Card Pack for books 9 and 10
In the second series each book again came with six cards. However, unlike the first series, the cards were needed to unlock the online missions. Cahills vs Vespers also had two card packs. These card packs all contained the same 16 game cards, which would unlock the online extreme missions. The card packs were:
The Marco Polo Heist released with book 1
The Magellan Heist released with book 4
In the third series Unstoppable, each book contains six game cards. These cards unlock an extra game in their corresponding online missions.
In the fourth series Doublecross, each book will contain six virtual cards.
Overall, the cards form a key part of the series.[citation needed] Players on the online website can only collect all the clues through the use of the cards, and in later series can only unlock the missions by having the cards. The cards in the first series often had puzzles and riddles to solve.
Additional cards have been released over the course of the series, and the cards are only virtual. Scholastic developed a game involving the cards, Doublecross, in which players physically use their cards to battle their opponents.
Themes[edit]
The 39 Clues series consists of adventure novels; however, the novels also fall within the genre of historical fiction. The stories switch back and forth between different characters' points of view.[22] Each novel focuses on one historical figure and geographical location as Dan and Amy explore a clue related to a prominent Cahill family member in an exotic location.[18]
One theme of the series is the relationship between talent and success. Each branch of the Cahill family has specific talents in a certain area; for example, the Ekaterina branch specializes in inventions and technology. Amy and Dan's competitors' talents give them an advantage, yet Amy and Dan consistently are ahead in the hunt and are viewed as the main threats. Over the course of the books, Amy and Dan discover their own talents.[23]
Origins[edit]
An editorial team in Scholastic came up with the idea of an interactive series with online games and asked Rick Riordan to write the first book.[24] Riordan agreed because he thought it was a good idea, and as a middle school teacher he loved making history enjoyable for younger readers.[25][26] The project was kept secret for about two years.[27]
Reception[edit]
Awards[edit]
As of June 11, 2010, The 39 Clues series had been on the New York Times bestseller list of Children's Series books for 48 weeks.[28] Books in the series have also appeared on the USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.[18]
Critical reception[edit]
Critical reception of the 39 Clues has been mostly positive. The first book was met with positive reviews and spawned optimism for the rest of the series. The books have been very popular among kids.[citation needed]
Film[edit]
Steven Spielberg acquired film rights to the series in June 2008. Spielberg and Scholastic Media president Deborah Forte will produce the series,[29] while Brett Ratner expressed interest in directing the first film. Screenwriter Jeff Nathanson was hired to write the script in September 2008.[30] In May 2012, Shawn Levy, the director of the Night at the Museum movies, acquired the rights to direct the movie.[31] The movie rights were taken by Universal, in August 2013.[32] The movie, The 39 Clues: The Movie, was originally planned to be released in 2014, but as of May 2018, the movie has not yet entered production.[3][33][34]
See also[edit]
Children's literature portal
Infinity Ring
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Riordan, Rick (September 9, 2008). The Maze of Bones. Scholastic. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-545-06039-4. OCLC 192081902. If you accept, you shall be given the first of thirty-nine clues. These clues will lead you to a secret, which, should you find it, will make you the most powerful, influential human beings on the planet.
Jump up ^ Lodge, Sally (July 22, 2010). "The Success and Grand Finale of The 39 Clues". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b "The 39 Clues (2014)". MovieWeb. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
Jump up ^ "Scholastic Announces Complete List of Authors in No. 1 New York Times Bestselling Series". Marketwire. New York, NY. March 3, 2009. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
Jump up ^ Yin, Maryann (September 23, 2010). "David Baldacci Joins Several Authors to Write the 2nd Wave of '39 Clues' series". GalleyCat. Retrieved February 11, 2011.
Jump up ^ Smith, Roland. "The 39 Clues Message Board: Book 4 Cover Reveal". Scholastic Inc. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
Jump up ^ Linda Sue Park (2012-07-12). "Book 5 Cover Reveal!". Scholastic, 39 Clues Message Board. Retrieved 2012-07-15.
Jump up ^ Linda Sue Park [@LindaSuePark] (2012-06-13). "Sneak peek at Book 5 of Cahills vs. Vespers" (Tweet). Retrieved 2012-07-15 – via Twitter.
Jump up ^ "The 39 Clues: Unstoppable Book 3: Countdown by Natalie Standiford | 9780545521451 | Hardcover | Barnes & Noble". Barnesandnoble.com. 2013-12-04. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
Jump up ^ "Title And Cover Revealed For 39 Clues: Unstoppable, Book 4 – Flashpoint". Retrieved September 23, 2014.
Jump up ^ "The 39 Clues Message Board". Retrieved September 23, 2014.
Jump up ^ "The 39 Clues: Doublecross: Book 1". Scholastic. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
Jump up ^ "The 39 Clues: Doublecross Book 1: Mission Titanic: Jude Watson: 9780545747813". Amazon.com. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
Jump up ^ "The 39 Clues: Doublecross: Book 2". Scholastic. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
Jump up ^ "Mission Hindenburg (The 39 Clues: Doublecross, Book 2): C. Alexander London: 9780545767439". Amazon.com.
Jump up ^ https://www.amazon.com/The-Clues-Super-Special-Book/dp/1338037056
Jump up ^ "The 39 Clues: Superspecial, Book 1". Scholastic. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
^ Jump up to: a b c "The 39 Clues Online Press Kit". Scholastic Media Room. Scholastic.
Jump up ^ Jordan, Tina (April 5, 2010). "'The 39 Clues': Exclusive on final two titles, covers!". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 11, 2011.
Jump up ^ Minzesheimer, Bob (November 11, 2011). "Scholastic to publish '39 Clues'-inspired e-book stories". USA Today. Archived from the original on December 14, 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
Jump up ^ Sekeres, Diane Carver; Christopher Watson (June 4, 2011). "New Literacies and Multimediacy: The Immersive Universe of The 39 Clues". Children's Literature in Education. 42 (3): 256–273. doi:10.1007/s10583-011-9133-4. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
Jump up ^ Culham, Ruth. "Decoding Writing with The 39 Clues" (PDF). Scholastic. Retrieved April 29, 2012. The 39 Clues story is narrated from several different characters’ points of view.
Jump up ^ Stockwell, Laura. "Curriculum Guide for The 39 Clues series". Retrieved 2010-06-09.
Jump up ^ "Rick Riordan Author of the Month Transcript". Scholastic. Retrieved April 29, 2012. Scholastic came to me with the basic idea and I thought it sounded cool. I like history, puzzles, and games, so the 39 Clues seemed like a perfect thing to write.
Jump up ^ "Rick Riordan Interview". Scholastic. July 2008. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
Jump up ^ Staskiewicz, Keith (August 30, 2010). "'The 39 Clues' round-robin interview". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
Jump up ^ Karen W. (September 9, 2008). "Rick Riordan in the House! (Part 1)". Ink Splot 26. Retrieved April 29, 2012. for two years, no one on the team was allowed to say anything about the project to anyone.
Jump up ^ "Children's Books". The New York Times. June 11, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2010.
Jump up ^ Michael Fleming (June 24, 2008). "Steven Spielberg follows '39 Clues'". Variety. Retrieved September 3, 2008.
Jump up ^ Tatiana Siegel (September 2, 2008). "Jeff Nathanson to write '39 Clues'". Variety. Retrieved September 3, 2008.
Jump up ^ Trumbore, Dave (May 10, 2012). "Shawn Levy to Direct Adventure Novel Series Adaptation The 39 Clues for DreamWorks". Collider.com. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Universal Could Take 'The 39 Clues' From Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks | /Film". Slashfilm.com. 2013-08-21. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
Jump up ^ "The 39 Clues". Retrieved September 23, 2014.
Jump up ^ Eleanor Barkhorn (July 18, 2011). "The Next Harry Potters: Where Are They Now?". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
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Ghost Rider (film)
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Ghost Rider
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Directed by
Mark Steven Johnson
Produced by
Avi Arad
Steven Paul
Michael De Luca
Gary Foster
Written by
Mark Steven Johnson
Based on
Ghost Rider
by Gary Friedrich
Roy Thomas
Mike Ploog
Starring
Nicolas Cage
Eva Mendes
Wes Bentley
Sam Elliott
Donal Logue
Peter Fonda
Music by
Christopher Young
Cinematography
Russell Boyd
Edited by
Richard Francis-Bruce
Production
companies
Crystal Sky Pictures
Relativity Media
Marvel Entertainment
Femme Enceinte Pictures
Michael De Luca Productions
GH One
Vengeance Productions Pty Ltd.
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release date
January 15, 2007 (2007-01-15) (Ukraine)
February 16, 2007 (2007-02-16) (United States)
Running time
110 minutes
(Original version)
123 minutes
(Extended cut)[1]
Country
United States[2][3]
Language
English
Budget
$110 million[4]
Box office
$228.7 million[4]
Ghost Rider is a 2007 American supernatural horror superhero film written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson and based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider/Johnny Blaze, with Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott, Donal Logue, Matt Long, and Peter Fonda in supporting roles.
Ghost Rider was released on February 16, 2007 in the United States by Columbia Pictures. The film was met with negative reviews from critics, but was a box office success, earning $228.7 million worldwide on a $110 million budget. Ghost Rider was released on DVD, Blu-ray and UMD on June 12, 2007. A sequel titled Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance was released on February 17, 2012, with Cage reprising his role.
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Character portrayal
4 Music
5 Release
5.1 Promotion
5.2 Home media
6 Reception
6.1 Box office
6.2 Critical response
7 Sequel
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Plot[edit]
Over one hundred years ago, the devil Mephistopheles sent his bounty hunter of the damned, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve a document known as the contract of San Venganza, a list of a thousand corrupt souls. Seeing that the contract would give Mephistopheles the power to unleash hell on Earth, the rider refuses to give him the contract.
In 1986, Mephistopheles reaches out to 17-year-old stunt motorcycle rider Johnny Blaze, offering to cure his father's cancer in exchange for Blaze's soul, an offer he hastily accepts. The next morning, Blaze awakes to discover that his father's cancer is cured, but he is killed that same day in a motorcycle stunt in which he falls into the ring of fire through which he is jumps. Blaze accuses Mephistopheles of causing his father's death, but Mephistopheles considers their contract to be fulfilled and promises to one day see him again.
21 years later, Blaze has become a famous stunt motorcycle rider known for surviving numerous deadly crashes. Blaze meets his lifelong sweetheart Roxanne Simpson, now a news reporter, whom he abandoned after his father's death. He convinces her to attend a dinner date. Meanwhile, Blackheart, the demonic son of Mephistopheles, comes to Earth, along with three fallen angels who bonded with the elements air, earth, and water. They are tasked to find the lost contract of San Venganza. In response, Mephistopheles makes Blaze the new Ghost Rider and offers to return his soul if he defeats Blackheart, though he is also told he has no choice in the matter. Blaze is driven straight to the station on his "first ride,, wherein he transforms into the Ghost Rider and kills the earth angel, Gressil. He also saves a young girl from a mugger and incapacitates him with the penance stare (a power that allows the Ghost Rider to make any evil person experience all the pains they caused on their victims as long as the victims were good and not evil). The next day, he meets a man called the caretaker, who seems to know all about the history of the Ghost Rider. He tells him everything that happened was not a dream and that it will happen again, especially at night when he is near an evil soul.
When he arrives home, Blaze finds Simpson and reveals himself as the devil's bounty hunter. Unconvinced, she walks away in disbelief. After a brief imprisonment for the murders that Blackheart committed, Blaze kills the air angel, Abigor, and escapes from the police before returning to the caretaker, who tells him of his predecessor, Carter Slade, a Texas Ranger who hid the contract of San Venganza. Blaze returns home to find that Blackheart has killed his friend Mack and has taken Roxanne captive, threatening to kill her if Blaze does not deliver the contract. Blaze tries to use the penance stare on Blackheart, but it does not to work as Blackheart has no soul to burn.
Blaze returns to the caretaker and obtains the contract. The caretaker reveals that he is Carter Slade. Slade tells Blaze that he is more powerful than his predecessors since he sold his soul for love as opposed to greed. Slade leads Blaze to San Venganza, then gives Blaze a lever-action shotgun before fading away.
After killing the water angel Wallow, Blaze gives the contract to Blackheart. He quickly transforms into Ghost Rider in an effort to subdue Blackheart, but dawn arrives and he is rendered powerless. Blackheart uses the contract to absorb the thousand souls into his body. He attempts to kill Blaze, but is distracted when Simpson uses Blaze's discarded shotgun to separate them. After Blaze tries to kill Blackheart with the shotgun, he moves in and uses his penance stare to render him catatonic, burning all the corrupt souls within Blackheart, which is what he had hoped for.
Mephistopheles appears and returns Blaze his soul, offering to take back the curse of the Ghost Rider. Determined not to make another deal, Blaze declines, saying that he will use his power against him, and against all harm that comes to the innocent. Infuriated for being robbed of the power, Mephistopheles vows to make Blaze pay, but Blaze tells Mephistopheles that he is not afraid. Mephistopheles then disappears, taking Blackheart's body with him. Later, Simpson tells Blaze that he got his second chance before sharing a final kiss with him. Blaze then rides away on his motorcycle, turning into the Ghost Rider.
Cast[edit]
Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider: A motorcycle stunt rider, who is tricked into making a deal with the Devil thinking that it will save his father from dying, and is subsequently transformed into a supernatural demonic soul hunter, the Devil's Spirit of Vengeance, the Ghost Rider. As his work for Mephisto continues, he hunts down the demons which have escaped from Hell.
Matt Long as young Johnny Blaze
Eva Mendes as Roxanne Simpson: Johnny's childhood love-interest, and current girlfriend who is a news reporter.
Raquel Alessi as young Roxanne Simpson
Wes Bentley as Blackheart / Legion: The illegitimate demon son of Mephistopheles, who wants to use the Contract of San Venganza in order to unleash Hell on Earth.
Sam Elliott as Carter Slade / Caretaker / Ghost Rider: A former Ghost Rider, and an ally and mentor to Blaze.
Donal Logue as Mack: One member of Johnny's team and his own impresario.
Peter Fonda as Mephistopheles /
the Devil: The Devil, with whom Blaze makes a contractual deal in order to save the latter's father from cancer. Deceivingly, Mephisto causes Blaze's father to die the next day in a motorcycling accident. Mephistopheles is in search for his demon son, Blackheart who seeks to overthrow him. The two race in search of the Contract of San Venganza, a binding note of 1,000 damned souls.
Brett Cullen as Barton Blaze: Johnny Blaze's deceased father, and former motorcycle stunt rider.
David Roberts as Captain Jack Dolan: A police captain.
Laurence Breuls as Gressil: one of the Fallen Angels and Blackheart's minions. He has earth based powers.
Daniel Frederiksen as Wallow: one of the Fallen Angels and Blackheart's minions. He has water based powers.
Mathew Wilkinson as Abigor: one of the Fallen Angels and Blackheart's minions. He has wind based powers.
Rebel Wilson as Girl in alley
Production[edit]
Ghost Rider's motorcycle, in its supernatural transformed shape.
Victorian Railways L class locomotive used in a key scene filmed at Newport Railway Workshops.
Development[edit]
Marvel Studio began development for Ghost Rider as early as 1992 and were in discussions with potential distributors.[5] In 1997 Gale Anne Hurd was listed as producer, with Jonathan Hensleigh attached to write the script.[6] 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.[7] The following August, Dimension Films joined Crystal Sky to co-finance the film, which would be directed by Stephen Norrington.[8] Producer Avi Arad approached Eric Bana on the possibility of playing Ghost Rider, but opted to cast him in Hulk instead.[9] In June 2001, actor and Ghost Rider fan Nicolas Cage entered talks to be cast into the lead role,[10] after having found out about Depp being a possibility for the role and contacted the director to express his own interest.[11] Norrington would drop out within a few months due his commitment to Tick Tock[12] 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.[13] They brought Shane Salerno to rewrite Goyer's script.[14]
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.[15] 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.[16]
Ghost Rider had again been delayed to begin in late 2004, but the lack of a workable script continued to delay production.[17] 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.[18] Actress Eva Mendes was also cast opposite Cage as Roxanne Simpson.[19] On February 14, 2005, Ghost Rider commenced filming in Australia at the Melbourne Docklands film studios.[20] Then in March 2005, actor Peter Fonda (who starred in Easy Rider) was cast as the villain Mephistopheles.[21] Johnson originally planned to film before an audience at the Telstra Dome, but instead opted to create a crowd using computer-generated imagery.[22] The director also chose to film in the motorcycle district of Melbourne.[23] By June 2005, principal photography had been completed for Ghost Rider,[24] which was set for a summer 2006 release.[25] In April 2006, the cast and crew performed last-minute reshoots in Vancouver.[26] Ghost Rider was originally scheduled to release on August 4, 2006,[27] but the date was moved three weeks earlier to July 14, 2006.[28] Sony changed the film's release date once more to February 16, 2007 to help relieve the studio's crowded 2006 calendar.[29]
Character portrayal[edit]
Instead of a "hard drinking and smoking bad ass" Johnny Blaze, Nicolas Cage decided to give him more depth. "I'm playing him more as someone who... made this deal and he's trying to avoid confronting it, anything he can do to keep it away from him". Cage also explained that Blaze's stunt riding was a form of escape and a way to keep him connected to his deceased father, who taught him to ride. Cage rode a Buell motorcycle for Blaze's stunt cycle, and a heavily customized hardtail chopper named "Grace" which transforms into the "Hell Cycle".[30] The Hell Cycle's wheels, made of pure flames in the comics, were changed to be solid tires covered in flames in order to give the motorcycle more weight onscreen.[31]
The film's visual effects supervisor, Kevin Mack, and the visual effects team at Sony Pictures Imageworks handled the difficult task of creating computer-generated fire on a shot-by-shot basis.[32] Ghost Rider's skull flames were designed to become smaller and blue to display any emotion other than rage.[31] Kevin's Team at Imageworks also created computer-generated motorcycles, chains, water, black goo, dementors and buildings. To pull off such effects as the living morph where the hardtail chopper ("Grace") comes alive to become the "Hell Cycle" Sony enlisted teams of animators, models, effects artists, lighters & "Flame" artists. The department supervisors for these teams at Imageworks included Kevin Hudson, Brian Steiner, JD Cowels, Marco Marenghi, Joe Spadaro, Joanie Karnowski, Vincent Serritella & Patrick Witting. Patrick's team bore the brunt of the work as they created the fire using a custom pipeline that automated the set up starting with Maya animated geometry driving Maya Fluids, imported into Houdini and then rendered & composited on top of the live action plates. Patrick and his team set up the fire process and much of the front end automation was set up by Scott Palleiko and Joe Spadaro. The fire was then tweaked and manipulated to look and move believably by Patick's eleven man Houdini effects team. All of this was enabled by effects producers Daniel Kuehn and the Digital Effects Supervisor Kee-Suk 'Ken' Hahn.
The digital version of the hell cycle was modeled in detail by Kevin Hudson and based on the practical prop used in the film, it included animatable skeletal hands that came alive to wrap the gas tank during the supernatural transformation scene. The transformation scene was animated by Max Tyrie and finalized by Joe Spadaro. Each part of the "Grace" geometry had to match up and morph with a piece of geometry on the "Hell Cycle"
The bullet time like scene where Ghost Rider on the "Hell Cycle" jumps from a building cutting to slow motion with the flaming chain was the brainchild of animator Maks Naporowski. Kevin Mack, was looking for what he called "shoe leather" to tie the two scenes together. Maks & Marco came up with this incredible concept that went on to become one of the most impressive scenes in the film & on the trailers. [33] Ghost Rider's voice was manipulated by sound designer Dane Davis, who won an Academy Award for Sound Editing for The Matrix. Davis filtered Cage's line readings through three different kinds of animal growls that were played backwards and covered separate frequencies. Davis then amplified the dialogue through a mechanical volumizer. Director Johnson described the sound as a "deep, demonic, mechanical lion's roar".[34]
Music[edit]
Ghost Rider: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film score by Christopher Young
Released
February 13, 2007
Recorded
2006
Genre
Film score, orchestral
Length
56:33
Label
Varèse Sarabande
Christopher Young chronology
The Grudge 2
(2006)The Grudge 22006 Ghost Rider
(2007) Spider-Man 3
(2007)Spider-Man 32007
In December 2005, musical composer Christopher Young was announced to score Ghost Rider. In addition, Spiderbait, a band that Johnson befriended during filming in Australia,[32] performed a cover of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" for the end credits.[35]
Track listing
All tracks written by Christopher Young.
No.
Title
Length
1. "Ghost Rider" 3:16
2. "Blackheart Beat" 3:06
3. "Artistry in Death" 4:13
4. "A Thing for Karen Carpenter" 2:01
5. "Cemetery Dance" 5:31
6. "More Sinister Than Popcorn" 5:40
7. "No Way to Wisdom" 2:15
8. "Chain Chariot" 6:18
9. "Santa Sardonicus" 3:36
10. "Penance Stare" 5:26
11. "San Venganza" 3:22
12. "Blood Signature" 2:08
13. "Serenade to a Daredevil's Devil" 1:53
14. "Nebuchadnezzar Phase" 5:52
15. "The West Was Built on Legends" 3:59
Total length: 56:33
Release[edit]
Promotion[edit]
In May 2005, Sony Pictures launched the official website for Ghost Rider.[36]
The following July, the studio presented a Ghost Rider panel at Comic-Con International and screened a teaser for the audience.[31] The teaser, which did not have finalized footage of the film, eventually leaked online.[37] In the same month, Majesco Entertainment Company announced its deal with Marvel to acquire worldwide rights to produce the video game Ghost Rider for the PS2, PSP, and Game Boy Advance consoles.[38]
In December 2005, the studio presented a first glimpse of Ghost Rider in a ten-second footage piece on the official site.[39]
In April 2006, Sideshow Collectibles announced the sale of a Ghost Rider maquette based on the concept art of the film.[40]
The following May, domestic and international teaser trailers for Ghost Rider were launched at Apple.[41]
The Ghost Rider was also featured in a commercial for Jackson Hewitt Tax Services in which the character presented his income tax forms to a clerk for processing to receive a quick refund check.
Home media[edit]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film on June 12, 2007 as a single-disc Theatrical Cut DVD, two-disc Extended Cut DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and UMD. Special features on the Extended Cut DVD include two commentary tracks, a comic book history feature, and a making of the film featurette.[42]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
Ghost Rider was commercially released in the United States on February 16, 2007. The film grossed $15,420,123 on its opening day,[43] while earning $45,388,836 for its opening weekend. The film earned $52,022,908 over the four-day President's Day weekend, with a per-theater average of $US 14,374 in 3,619 theaters.[44] The film's total earnings were $228,738,393 worldwide of which $115,802,596 was from the North America.[4]
Critical response[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, Ghost Rider has a 26% overall approval out of 135 reviews from critics; the sites critical consensus states: "Ghost Rider is a sour mix of morose, glum histrionics amidst jokey puns and hammy dialogue".[45] Similarly Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 35 out of 100 based on reviews from 20 critics.[46]
Michael Ordoña of the Los Angeles Times[47] and Jeannette Catsoulis of the New York Times[48] expressed disappointment in the film. Ordoña cited the "satanic references" and "judgmental" elements of Cage's character,[47] and Catsoulis said Johnny Blaze is "more funny than frightening".[48] Although Eric Alt of the Chicago Tribune praised the computer-generated effects of the film, he also criticized it, calling it a "clumsy, lifeless outing".[49] IGN named the film the worst comic book film of the decade.[citation needed]
The film was nominated for one Razzie Award for Nicolas Cage as Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor.[citation needed]
Sequel[edit]
Main article: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
A sequel, entitled Spirit of Vengeance, started filming in November 2010 and was released on February 17, 2012. Cage reprised his role as Johnny Blaze and also portrayed Johnny Blaze in his Ghost Rider form. Crank filmmakers Neveldine/Taylor directed the film. The film opened to worse reviews than the first but was a box office success.
See also[edit]
List of ghost films
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