A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoir of a former British prime minister uncover secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoir of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for year, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detail and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramification that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationhip" with the USA. But before this controvery has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable sign that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably contitutes highly senitive material.

When a successful UK  The Ghost Writer "shadow" agreed former British Prime Minister Adam Lang finished writing his memoirs when his agent to assure him that this is an opportunity of his life. But this plan from the beginning seems to be doom enveloped - and because of his former writers, Adam Lang, a longtime aide Mike Al fell in and drowned from the Woods Hole ferry, although this is just an accident but a lot of doubt which inevitably raises the heart of suspicion and foreboding.
Shadow to accept the job, his girlfriend left him: "She felt he had betrayed her, she used to be a party member." Shadow house located on an island of the east coast of the United States started to fly in the middle of winter. the scheme. But on the day after he arrived, the former British foreign secretary to assist the CIA arrested Adam Lang.
A copy of his service during the memo revealed that Lang guilty of war crimes, illegal detention of suspected terrorists and allow them to accept torture. Now, Adam Lang, faced with the imminent threat has been sent to the International Military Tribunal. It in the UK also attracted wide attention.
Controversial journalists and demonstrators Chung Lang on the island mansion Lang with his wife, Ruth, as well as his personal assistant (his mistress) Amelia to stay there. With the roll-out of the shadow of the gunman, he began to find Lang's arrest is not a simple political events, nor is it the fault of the Lang a. It seems, like his predecessor, Mike Al deliberately fabricated and invented the "truth", and Mike Al is not a simple figure, he has been secretly sent to the CIA data, "exposing" or " frame, "the former Prime Minister Adam Lang. And now, the evidence of these clues, hidden in a manuscript left by Mike Al ...
Behind the scenes
"Gunmen" according to Robert Harris, Robert Harris, the novel of the same name, adapted from the novel won the 2008 International Thriller Writers' Association Best Novel Award. Of Harris and Polanski adaptation of the novel.
Adapted from the mysterious suspense masterpiece intercept the password battle the Enigma's best-selling thriller writer Robert Harris, the same name. The controversial Roman Polanski to return to the signs thriller route to create twists and turns terrifying new generation of compact provocative plot suspense classic!
A human ghost writers and former British Prime Minister ...
An memoirs and earth-shattering political conspiracy ...
"Shadow" (Ewan McGregor, ornaments) is a successful writer ghost, specifically human ghostwriter ghost writing articles, this time he met the lifetime of the airplane, as former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan ornaments) write memoirs.
He went to join a U.S. east coast of the island and the former Prime Minister, but found that the former writers - longtime aide to former Prime Minister killed, Arrival next day, former Prime Minister have been subjected to the CIA to the illegal detention of terrorist war crimes arrest caused by Britain concern at home and abroad. The dispute makes journalists and demonstrators flocked to the island.
With the shadow of the commencement of the work, he found that the arrested former Prime Minister was not purely political events, and all the truth, the former Prime Minister of the manuscript ...
Directed by Roman Polanski, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan starred in the original novel, adapted from the intercept Password war "writer Robert Harris.
Film the opening of large tracts of the 2010 Berlin Film Festival spotlight health, won the Berlin Silver Bear for best director awards, has been hailed as the best horror works of European and American film history following the "Silence of the Lambs"!
[The tortuous course of cooperation
Roman Polanski and Robert Harris of the cooperation program has been a long time, but often have experienced a severe test. Polanski had planned to Harris historical novels "Pompeii" onto the big screen, and announced that it will build the most expensive movie in the history of European film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, however, there are unexpected storms, one after another from the writer and the Screen Actors Guild strike, which eventually led to the film abortion. So he turned to Harris, another best-selling new "ghost" (The Ghost), and together they rewrote the script and selected Nicolas Cage, Pierce Brosnan, Tilda Swinton and gold · Cattrall cast, however, at this time the film again for various reasons postponed until the shooting in Germany in February 2009, the Ivan McGregor replace the Cage, Swindon's role is replaced by the Austrian Liwei Ya · Williams.
The film completed in May 2009 shooting, but the recurrence of accidents in September - and the film is almost a fatal blow: 76-year-old Polanski was arrested in Zurich, Switzerland. The midst of sadness, Polanski was arrested before he has completed more than half of the clip of the film, he was calling the shots in the cell, the film's soundtrack and sound synthesis to be remote guidance, the final rush before the Berlin Film Festival completed, and re-named " The Ghost Writer "(The Ghost Writer,), to participate in the race of the Berlin Film Festival Competition.
In fact, the last competition in Berlin Polanski has been a full 44 years ago, in 1965, Polanski with "Repulsion" (Repulsion) first came to the Berlin Film Festival, won the Jury Special Award and the cost-West International Critics' Award, the following year, the "desert island Cry" (Cul-de-sac) won the Golden Bear in Berlin - the Berlin Film Festival had to give the fledgling, near continuous twice certainly grateful Polanski at the Cannes and Berlin, also issued the invitation, chose the latter, to table the mind of the 60th birthday of the Berlin Film Festival, but is still under house arrest but had absent to film movie Festival premiere, which had another regret.
[Authentic wave thriller regression]
Polanski said: "a long time, I've always wanted to direct a political thriller, while" The The Ghost Writer "script is simply no better, and Harris's novel is full of suspense the power of people a reading could not bear to put down." In fact, the " The Ghost Writer "of the story, not just a ghost hand uncovered the dark insider of the former Prime Minister is so simple, it comes to politics, death, text, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair of metaphor in real life, everywhere. Mentioned novel Lang and Blair, as they have done most of his time all day stay in the office, and real-life insulation, read the limited information the politicians, when they write the memoirs of Robert Harris, author of the original, inevitably find someone to ghost. Harris said that Blair himself is actually a "ghost hand", because his defense for George W. Bush for invading Iraq, he even than Bush the president himself put it better. Blair held in contempt and loneliness, he said: "I hope the film can be quickly introduced, at least in Blair's own memoirs before publication."
However, when all of this into the hands of Polanski, these insinuations plot seems to be insufficient to meet his interest, directing his feelings at the same time into the ghost hand and the Prime Minister who, he experienced fear, dark, exile, and the survivors. Through role to invest in the big screen, makes the film far more than death, conspiracy, and fear is so simple. Wave film has always been to give people a persistent nightmare memories of Polanski's most hated happy endings, and even deliberately successful director in order to meet audience expectations is shameful, and therefore " The Ghost Writer "in a step by step to destroy all hope is a typical wave-type plot choreography. Polanski also revealed that this film will be an extraordinary sense of rhythm, the pace of it and the original is basically the same, but the final shift towards another open ending.