Pierce Brosnan film in limbo after its director is arrested

The arrest of fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski in Switzerland over the weekend has left his next film, The Ghost, in limbo. With the Oscar-winning director facing extradition to America and possible imprisonment over a three-decade old sex crime that he plead guilty to but subsequently fled the U.S. over, the fate of Polanski's screen adaptation of author Robert Harris' political thriller remains unclear - reports IGN

Associated Press learned from the Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown director's agent, ICM honcho Jeff Berg, that "Polanski had completed much of the editing on The Ghost. But other postproduction work, including music scoring and sound mixing, had yet to be done, Berg said."

The Ghost doesn't have a stateside distributor yet, but it does for certain foreign markets. Whether or not Polanski's case will raise or diminish interest among potential U.S. buyers for the movie remains to be seen.

The movie tells the story of a former British Prime Minister, Adam Lang, (Pierce Brosnan) who is holed up on an island off the Eastern seaboard of the USA in midwinter, writing his memoirs. When his long-standing aide drowns, a professional ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) is sent out to help him finish the book. The anonymous ghostwriter is quickly drawn into a political and sexual intrigue involving Lang's wife, Ruth (Olivia Williams) and his aide (Kim Cattrall). Hanging over Lang is the threat of a war crimes trial and a mysterious secret from his past that threatens to jeopardize international relations. Tom Wilkinson, Jim Belushi, and Robert Pugh co-star.

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