Archive for October 15th, 2009

Ewan McGregor in "The Ghost"

Director Roman Polanski, who was arrested last month on a decades-old sex offense, is attempting to finish his newest film The Ghost from his jail cell in Switzerland. Head of production at Studio Babelsberg and co-producer Henning Molfenter insisted that the film will be finished on time and that they’ll meet all obligations with their distributors. The plan is to have the film ready for exhibition for the Berlin International Film Festival in February.

The film is based on a book by Robert Harris of the same title.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Quick Opinion: Being that Polanski is even trying to finish the film from jail should tell that there wasn’t much work left to be done on it – relatively speaking. He had already finished a rough cut of the movie before being arrested, which no doubt has helped make the finalizing process easier on everyone involved. It will be interesting to see what kind of repercussions will result from Polanski’s bad publicity being attached to the film.

Movie-Thoughts.com would like to know, would you be willing to see The Ghost when it releases, or will you hold off on seeing it out of protest against Polanski’s offenses?