London, Sep 26 (IANS) Actress Kate Winslet has been roped in to star in director Roman Polanski’s new film.

An adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s play ‘God of Carnage’, the film is set in New York. The shooting will take place in Paris as Polanski is banned from entering the US, reports telegraph.co.uk.

The director fled the country in 1977 after he was convicted of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.