Johnny Depp and his longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis will star in a movie, according to Contact Music.

My American Lover will feature the real-life couple as writers Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir. This will be the first time they have worked together.

Contact Music quotes Depp as saying, “It’s in preparation. It’s called My American Lover. Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real macho.”

Simone de Beauvoir was a 20th century French writer and philosopher. She is famous for the novels She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex — as well as for her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. She had an affair with Algren and they traveled to Latin America together in 1949.

Depp and Paradis, a French singer and actress, have been together since 1998 and have two children, Lily Rose, ten, and Jack, seven.

Depp is currently shooting The Tourist with Angelina Jolie. “She’s a nice woman,” he reportedly said of the actress. “What she does she takes very seriously. I was really impressed by her and I’m thrilled to be working with her.”

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