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Australia Filming Locations #9 – Ghost Rider (2007)

Popular comic book character Ghost Rider was given the big screen treatment in early 2007 with Nicholas Cage cast as the flaming-skull-headed biker. Cage already had a tattoo of the anti-hero on his arm but had to cover it up for filming as it would be pretty weird to have a tattoo of yourself wouldn’t it!!

It would be natural to assume that it was filmed in the States (or Canada) but it was pretty much all shot in and around Melbourne. None of the locations featured here are easily noticeable as being in the Australian city. It’s rather apt that the first filming location is now known as the Marvel Stadium although at the time of filming it went by a different name. Since it opened in the Docklands area in 2000 it has been called Colonial Stadium, Telstra Dome and the Etihad Stadium.

On screen it’s called the SoBe Dome and it is where Cage’s character Johnny Blaze performs a death-defying stunt on 25 minutes over a line of helicopters with their blades rotating. The musical score ‘ Ride Of The Valkyries ‘ plays which is an ‘ Apocalypse Now ‘ (1979) reference as that film’s director Francis Ford Coppola is Cage’s uncle.

The worlds busiest multi-purpose stadium is where I took my nephew (or did he take me?!) to watch Melbourne Victory against Brisbane Roar when I was in Australia back in March. It was the perfect opportunity to see an A-League football match whilst getting a few match-up shots for this post. It’s more commonly used as an Aussie rules football ground but had to be remodelled slightly to look like an American football field.

On 40 minutes Little Collins Street and Russell Street is seen briefly as Blaze erm, blazes a trail through Melbourne’s Central Business District (CBD).

Melbourne General Cemetery in Parkville appears on 49 minutes when a confused Johnny meets a man called the Caretaker, who knows about the Ghost Rider’s history. He assures Johnny that what happened regarding his soul was real and that he needs to be careful after dark when he is near an evil soul.

The cemetery in north Melbourne is absolutely huge and trying to locate the correct angles over two decades later was an impossible job really.

The St Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church (33 Howard Street at Victoria Street, West Melbourne) is seen on 70 minutes as Blackheart (son of the devil) looks for the Treaty. The whole church was under internal construction when I passed by but I took a quick look inside and could only snap a shot from this angle.

During a police chase later on in the movie, Johnny (a.k.a. Ghost Rider) rides up the arch of the Southbank Pedestrian Footbridge which links the Southbank area to Flinders Street Station. The bridge crosses the Yarra River and was built in 1989.

Bacchus Marsh, Melbourne Showgrounds and Newport Workshops are some other locations that were used in the state of Victoria. Cage would go on to make another movie in Melbourne a couple of years later.

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Where Was Ghost Rider Filmed?

Over the years, mainly due to the myriad of popular memes that can be found on the internet, Nicolas Cage’s ‘Ghost Rider’ has achieved cult-classic status. It was never the greatest cinematic representation of a comic book character, to begin with. Still, Nic Cage’s gravelly presence is what makes the movie unique and definitely worth a watch. The 2007 film follows the origin story of one of Marvel’s anti-heroes. It follows a young boy, Johnny Blaze, who sells his soul to Satan, in the hope of saving his father’s life.

Unfortunately, he gets duped by the Devil and ends up becoming his errand boy. As a grown stunt motorcyclist, Johnny ultimately decides to stop doing the Devil’s bidding, and therefore, he embraces his flaming fiery alter ego as he fights to save humanity. If you’re curious to know where ‘Ghost Rider’ was filmed, you’ve come to the right place.

Ghost Rider Filming Locations

The movie, directed by Mark Steven Johnson, is set in Texas, United States. However, filming in the US was apparently too costly for the makers, so they completed the film’s principal photography on location in and around Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Here are the specific places where the movie was shot!

Bacchus Marsh, Australia

The Avenue of Honour in the quirkily named town of Bacchus Marsh is a road lined with trees graced by the names of the martyrs of the war. It served as a backdrop for the country fair scene where 17-year-old Johnny makes a deal with the Devil to make his father’s cancer go away. The hill where young Johnny romances young Roxanne Simpson, carving their names into a tree, was filmed at Anakie, south of Bacchus Marsh toward Geelong.

Melbourne, Australia

Hunter Stand, where the grown-up Johnny performs bike stunts on the regular, was a set at Melbourne Showgrounds, Epsom Road, Ascot Vale in northwest Melbourne. Johnny Blaze performs more dangerous and more ambitious stunts, like the Leap of Death, at a place called the SoBe Dome in the movie. SoBe Dome is actually what is now known as the Marvel Stadium (previously called Etihad Stadium and before that, Telstra Dome), situated at 740 Bourke Street in Docklands, Melbourne.

Johnny is seen driving his hell-bike through the Little Collins Street and Russell Street in downtown Melbourne. The railway yard where Johnny first confronts Devil’s son Blackheart is a real location at Newport Railway Workshops, Melbourne Road, in Newport. The scene where Johnny prevents a random mugging with his ‘Penance Stare’ was shot on the Southbank Promenade beneath Princes Bridge. The church where Blackheart searches in vain for the Contract of Saint Venganza is located at 33 Howard Street at Victoria Street in West Melbourne and is known as St Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church.

The cemetery scene wherein Johny visits his father’s grave and meets The Caretaker was filmed at Melbourne General Cemetery, College Crescent, Parkville, North Melbourne. In one memorable scene, Johnny can be seen riding up a bridge before plunging into the river below. The bridge is the Southbank Pedestrian Footbridge over the Yarra River. The final showdown between Johnny and Blackheart was filmed on a set built inside a warehouse, also in Melbourne.