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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 Writer 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 Writer when it releases, or will you hold off on seeing it out of protest against Polanski’s offenses?

76 year old Roman Polanski

The Swiss Justice Ministry rejected an appeal by the Roman Polanski to be immediately released from prison. The reason for the rejection is because the Ministry still views Polanski as a severe flight risk. For this same reason, the option for bail is also being withheld.

Reportedly, Polanski’s extradition will be very tough to fight. However, no formal extradition request has been made from Washington.

For more, read the full article on Variety’s website.

Roman Polanski

76-year-old director Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby) was arrested yesterday in Switzerland, and could face extradition to the United States for having sex with a 13-year-old girl back in 1977.

Polanski was in Switzerland to receive an award at the Zurich Film Festival, but before he could accept it he was apprehended by police at a local airport. Sympathizers for Polanski attest that the arrest was uncalled for, however there has been a warrant for his arrest in countries which abide by U.S. extradition requests since 2005.

To read more about the case against Roman Polanski, click here.

Source: Variety