Nic Cage to Front Vigilante Thriller The Hungry Rabbit Jumps

In his continued quest to star in 5 out of every 10 movies currently being made by Hollywood (it’s actually a pretty sound strategy; even if 4 of his 5 movies bomb, he’ll have at least 1 hit, right?), Nicolas Cage has attached himself to yet another movie, this time the Tobey Maguire-produced “The Hungry Rabbit Jumps”, a film with Roger Donaldson (”The Bank Job”) already onboard to direct. Originally, it was assumed Maguire would star, but that appears to have fallen by the wayside, and Spidey will now just produce the film with Cage fronting it.

THR’s Heat Vision Blog says Cage will star as a man whose wife is the victim of a brutal crime, leading him to become involved with an underground vigilante organization. The object is to get revenge, one assumes, though since the film was previously described as being in the vein of David Fincher’s “The Game”, there is probably more going on than just simple revenge.

The script was written by Robert Tannen, with the movie set to shoot sometime in January of next year in New Orleans. Cage is becoming familiar with New Orleans, having just filmed the controversial sequel “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” there a while ago.

Maguire will produce the thriller through his Maguire Entertainment, while Jim Stern will produce for Endgame.

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