Guy Pearce signs on for "Hungry Rabbit Jumps"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

English-born Australian actor Guy Pearce will star alongside Nicolas Cage and January Jones in thriller "Hungry Rabbit Jumps."

New Zealand movie producer, director and writer Roger Donaldson ("The World's Fastest Indian," "The Bank Job") has been hired to direct the movie which about a man (Cage) who hires an underground vigilante organization after his wife (Jones) is brutally assaulted.

Endgame Entertainment acquired Robert Tannen's script in 2008 for Tobey Maguire to produce. Maguire is producing the $30 million movie through his Maguire Entertainment banner, alongside Endgame’s James Stern and Gordonstreet Pictures’ Ram Bergman. Maguire Entertainment's Jenno Topping is executive producing.

Movie is scheduled to start shooting in New Orleans in two weeks.