SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT AND R.P. FILMS
Present
THE GHOSTWRITER
Directed by ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER ROMAN POLANSKI
Written by ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER ROMAN POLANSKI AND BEST-SELLING NOVELIST ROBERT HARRIS
Starring EWAN MCGREGOR , PIERCE BROSNAN, KIM CATTRALL, OLIVIA WILLIAMS, TOM WILKINSON, TIMOTHY HUTTON, AND ELI WALLACH
Produced by ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEES ROMAN POLANSKI, ROBERT BENMUSSA & ALAIN SARDE
When a successful British ghostwriter, THE GHOST, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister ADAM LANG, his agent assures him it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start—not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang’s long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident.
The Ghost flies out to work on the project, in the middle of winter, to an oceanfront house on an island off the U.S. Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a former British cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA—a war crime. The controversy brings reporters and protesters swarming to the island mansion where Lang is staying with his wife, RUTH, and his personal assistant (and mistress), AMELIA. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA—and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind. Was Lang in the service of the American intelligence agency while he was prime minister? And was The Ghost’s predecessor murdered because of the appalling truth he uncovered?
Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal on every level— sexual, political and literary. In a world in which nothing, and no one, is as it seems, The Ghost quickly discovers that the past can be deadly—and that history is decided by whoever stays alive to write it.
Currently in Post-production. U.S. release via Summit Entertainment Spring 2010.
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SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
Presents
LETTERS TO JULIET
Starring
Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael Garcia Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero
Directed by Gary Winick
Written by Jose Rivera and Tim Sullivan
When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After answering one letter dated 1957, she inspires its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love, and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined.
U.S. release via Summit Entertainment, May 7, 2010.