Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. You know... I love Roman Polanski's films, but I have to take issue with serious movies that use horror film names. THE GHOST... and it's about international espionage? At least the Patrick Swayze movie had real dead people in it and those creepy-ass hell demon things.

However, I'm sure I can look past my bias against non-horror films carrying genre titles, even though I know some kid is going to see the title on Netflix or something and get tricked into watching a political intrigue film. If he makes a good movie that could end being a good thing, so we'll have to wait and see.

Robert Harris wrote the novel THE GHOST and is co-scripting the movie with Polanski, who will direct. Apparently there are a lot of parallels between the lead character, a British Prime Minister, and Tony Blair, a longtime friend of Harris'. The flick is about a ghostwriter who is hired to help a former British leader complete his memoirs... of course this draws him into the aforementioned political espionage and intrigue. Thoughts?