The full domestic trailer for Roman Polanski’s next film The Ghost Writer has arrived online this week, and appears to be on track for its February release date even as its director remains under house arrest in Switzerland. Based on the Robert Harris novel The Ghost, the movie stars Ewan McGregor as a writer who is hired to anonymously complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan). Along the way, however, Lang is accused of war crimes and the writer starts to suspect that there are some dark secrets lurking beneath the surface… which might also explain why the previous ghost writer mysteriously died.

Polanski’s output has been fairly sporadic over the past couple of decades, and although I didn’t see his last film Oliver Twist, I think a lot of us can agree that The Pianist was pretty awesome. However, thrillers have been historically some of Polanski’s strongest work, and I’m interested to see what he can do in a more modern scenario. It’s unclear if his arrest will alter how this movie is received, but it certainly seems to have helped generate publicity for it. Check out the trailer in HD over at Apple.com, or watch it after the jump and let us know what you think. The Ghost Writer opens in New York and L.A. on February 19th, and expands to select theatres on February 26th.