Empire Magazine has the exclusive first released photo of Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Williams and director Martin Scorsese on the set of Shutter Island.

The film, as with every Scorsese project, boasts an impeccable supporting cast including: Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, the lovely Emily Mortimer and Rorshach himself, Jackie Earle Haley.

Based on the novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, it is an atmospheric psychological thriller set in a 1950s asylum for the criminally insane. It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels (Leo) is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Shutter Island’s Ashecliffe Hospital. He’d been gunning for an assignment on the island for reasons of his own — but before long he wonders whether he hasn’t been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister.

Teddy’s code-breaking skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals “escape” in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues proliferate, Teddy begins to doubt everything — his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

Couldn’t ask for anything better from Leo and Marti, two of the best filmmakers to ever grace Hollywood. Shutter Island (poster left) is their fourth film together. I’m also very happy to see Michelle Williams in a mainstream film with obvious quality; the first such film since Heath Ledger’s death. Shutter Island opens everywhere October 2nd.

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