Arrest causes friction in film's finish
Polanski's 'Ghost' caught in moral, legal questions
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There's also a business question: the future of the director's "The Ghost," which was in the midst of post-production.
The film's producers, including Summit Intl., which is handling foreign sales, have stated their determination to complete "Ghost," an adaptation of a Robert Harris novel starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan.
Though post-production would seem stymied until Polanski gets out of jail, the producers would do well to remember the example of Kurdish helmer Yilmaz Guney.
Repeatedly arrested by Turkish authorities for his political activism throughout the 1970s, Guney directed and edited "Yol" while stuck in his prison cell, via meticulous, hand-written notes passed to his assistant Serif Goren.
Guney's pic, an indictment of the 1980 coup launched by Turkey's army, went on to tie for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1982, shortly after Guney had escaped from his Turkish prison and fled to Paris.
And, suggesting that one does indeed have to suffer for art, Teuton-Turkish helmer Fatih Akin is developing a biopic of Guney, who died in exile in the French capital.
