MTV News just announced that Nicholas Cage and Pierce Brosnan have signed on to star in Roman Polanski’s upcoming thriller “The Ghost.”

Based on the novel by Robert Harris, the film focuses on a ghostwriter who’s under pressure to finish the memoir of a former prime minister. But when the author stumbles across a perilous conspiracy that could implicate the ex-politician, he has to choose between his own safety and his commitment to his employer.

Brosnan will play the former prime minister, while Cage will portray the ghostwriter. Polanski is directing a script he wrote with Harris.

If everything goes according to plan, the project should enter production this fall.

I can definitely see Brosnan in the role of a former British prime minister, but Cage as the writer to his memoir? I don’t know. What do you think? Will they make a good team?