Director Roman Polanski will helm The Ghost, a political drama based on the novel by Robert Harris published in 2007. Polanski's aiming for a start date later this fall and has cast Nicolas Cage and Pierce Brosnan to star in the thriller.
Budget estimates for the project run in the $100 million range. Polanski and Harris adapted Harris' work for the screen.
Harris' novel involved a ghostwriter hired to take over writing the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister after the ex-Prime Minister's first co-writer perishes in an accident. The new writer quickly finds himself having a difficult time separately the truth from fiction and learns his predecessor may actually have been murdered.
Cage will play the ghostwriter with Brosnan taking on the part of the former Prime Minister. Tilda Swinton has been cast as Brosnan's character's wife, according to Variety.
Cage will next be seen in the Pang Brothers' Bangkok Dangerous and has committed to starring in Bad Lieutenant for Werner Herzog. Brosnan has a starring role in the musical Mamma Mia! alongside Meryl Streep.
Sources: Variety, Baseline
