Roman Polanski picked out Richard Harris’ novel, The Ghost, to be his next big project but that was about a year ago. Well it seems that the ball got itself rolling and they have now announced the two principal leads. Pierce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage.

Cinematical tells us:

Ghost is the story of a writer hired to complete an autobiography of a soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister (with Brosnan playing the PM, and Cage as the writer). Through the course of the interviews, the ghostwriter uncovers some troubling secrets from the Minister’s past that put our writer friend in some high-stakes danger.

Seeing Brosnan as that figure of authority that has a dark side is not at all a stretch. He seems to always play a character that isn’t exactly on the straight and narrow. Maybe I never got over seeing Pierce Brosnan as Remmington Steel.

But also, I do have faith in Cage even though I repeatedly have to defend his hit or miss movie career. So seeing the two of them in a movie together likely will result in some serious drama as they are both capable of being hardcore serious when needs be, but they are also capable of hamming it up.

I imagine this will be a very dark and serious tale and the second the director says ‘cut’ the two of them make faces at each other.