Tilda Swinton Joins Cast of The Ghost

Tilda Swinton has joined the Nicolas Cage and Pierce Brosnan in Roman Polanski's political thriller The Ghost.

Variety reports that production begins this September in Europe.

Tilda Swinton won an Oscar for her role in Michael Clayton.

Cage will portray a ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of an ex-British prime minister after the first scribe turned up dead. The ghostwriter's research leads him to uncover skeletons in the politician's closet that put the writer's life in danger.

Swinton will play the wife of the former prime minister (Brosnan).