MUMBAI: Summit Entertainment is all set to release Roman Polanski‘s retitled The Ghost Writer in North America in the first half of 2010.

The distribution house acquired rights from ICM and is intimately familiar with the project having handled foreign sales through Summit International. The film will have its world premiere at the Berlinale in February.

 
Based on Robert Harris‘ novel The Ghost, the thriller stars Ewan McGregor who plays a professional ghostwriter who uncovers political and sexual intrigue when he is sent to the Eastern seaboard to help the former UK Prime Minister complete his memoirs after the leader‘s aide drowns.

Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Jim Belushi, Robert Pugh and Tom Wilkinson star in the film.