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The first film shows us the origin of Cage's Johnny Blaze. Who he made a deal with. Why he made the deal. The consequences of the deal. Then the film ends with him accepting the Ghostrider and promising to use it against the guy.

Now the changes in the 2nd film was required because everyone else sans Cage turned the film down. So it had to become a reboot.

I don't remember the bit about them explaining the face change. Just maybe a line about the devil wearing different faces.

But it's like Dracula 2000 and it's two direct to video sequels which negate the first film.

Point is it failed really hard which is one of the reasons why Marvel decided to form a movie studio.