Washington, Dec 7 (ANI): Michelle Williams has joined Leonardo DiCaprio and Sir Ben Kingsley in Martin Scorceses pic Shutter Island.

The Brokeback Mountain star will be playing the wife of DiCaprios character U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels, reports Variety.

Scorsese will be directing from a script written by Laeta Kalogridis, who has adapted the screenplay based on a novel by Dennis Lehane.

The pic revolves around a U.S. marshal (DiCaprio) who is sent to a remote New England island in summer 1954 to investigate the disappearance of a patient from the island’s prison/mental hospital.

Pic is a co-production of Phoenix Pictures, Scorsese’s Sikelia and DiCaprio’s Appian Way banners. Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer and Scorsese will produce.

Lehane, Kalogridis and Louis Phillips are on board as executive producers. (ANI)