Husband & Wife Actors Joaquin Phoenix & Rooney Mara Will Star in Pawel Pawlikowski's 'The Island' Thriller Movie

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are combining their star power for a new thriller movie.

According to THR, the married couple will star together Pawel Pawlikowski‘s The Island, which is described as a dramatic thriller.

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Loosely based on real events, The Island focuses on attractive American couple in the 1930s who escape to their own private paradise on a deserted island and live off the land.

But after a millionaire passing by on his yacht turns the couple into a tabloid newspaper sensation, a self-styled countess appears with two lovers and plans to build a luxury hotel on the island.

As battle lines are quickly drawn, psychological warfare ensues between the countess and the American couple as sexual infidelity, betrayal and eventually murder takes place among the island interlopers.

This isn’t Joaquin and Rooney‘s first movie together. They actually met on the set of Her in 2002, and then co-starred in 2016′s Mary Magdalene. They’re also expected to star in a movie from director Lynne Ramsey as well.

Joaquin and Rooney welcomed their first child, a baby boy who they named River, in 2020.