Polanski works on film in jail

DIRECTOR Roman Polanski is finishing work on his latest film from a Swiss jail where he is fighting extradition to the US on a 1977 child sex charge, writer Robert Harris is quoted as saying.

Harris, who wrote the screenplay for the movie, The Ghost, told The Times newspaper in London that Polanski wanted to finish the movie in time for its planned premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.

“He (Polanski) can make his wishes known from his cell. I don’t think he can make phone calls, but he can communicate,” Harris told The Times.

“What people think of the film is another matter. Whether the film can rise above the circumstances in which the director now finds himself I don’t know. We will test to the upper limits the notion that there’s no such thing as bad publicity,” he added.