Pierce Brosnan and Roman Polanski team up in 'The Ghost Writer'

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CAHIR O'DOHERTY,

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Roman Polanski directs Pierce Brosnan on the set of 'The Ghost Writer.'

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This week Pierce Brosnan is once again in New York to promote his hard-hitting new thriller ‘The Ghost Writer.’ An unsettling and deeply atmospheric film about a former British prime minister, its storyline could easily have been ripped from last week’s headlines.

For Brosnan it must feel like déjà vu all over again as he was just in town to promote his turn in ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.’  Very shortly he’ll be back again to promote ‘Remember Me,’ in which he co-stars alongside the screen hunk of the moment Robert Pattinson.

And after that he’ll be back once more to promote ‘The Greatest’ (a low budget film that is, he says, very close to his heart).

If he’s starting to dread the sight of John F. Kennedy Airport he should thank his lucky stars anyway. Quietly, and in his own dignified way, Brosnan is underlining his continuing status as an A-List Hollywood leading man. The multiple offers for top-notch films are all the proof he needs.

But with all the new flicks opening every week, does he ever forget which film he should be talking about this week?

“No, no, the definition is clearly drawn between Percy Jackson and this one (‘The Ghost Writer)’.  In the case of ‘The Ghost Writer’ it’s an invitation to play in the house of Roman Polanski. It was a great invite and a wonderful experience in the company of actors like Ewan McGregor and Olivia Williams,” he told the Irish Voice on Tuesday at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, where the film’s cast were based for a round of press interviews.

In ‘The Ghost Writer,’ the title character, played by Scottish star Ewan McGregor is commissioned to ghost write the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former British prime minister. The last man to attempt the assignment ended up dead, but the job offers great money, so reluctantly McGregor’s character signs up.

But before you even get to the film, which is one of the most perfectly realized thrillers in years, you have to grapple with a difficult fact -- the director, Polanski, is under house arrest in Switzerland after skipping the U.S. for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

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