Guy Pearce joins Cage's 'Rabbit Jumps'

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Guy Pearce has joined the cast of Nicolas Cage revenge thriller The Hungry Rabbit Jumps, reports Production Weekly.

The film, to be directed by Roger Donaldson (The Bank Job), follows a man (Cage) who gets drawn into a vigilante group after his wife (Mad Men's January Jones) is the victim of a violent crime.

Tobey Maguire is producing the project through his Maguire Entertainment firm, while Jim Stern is overseeing for financier Endgame.

Production on The Hungry Rabbit Jumps is scheduled to begin next month in New Orleans.