Production Weekly has Tweeted the news that, with just two weeks before cameras are set to roll, it'll be Guy Pearce stepping aboard the production of The Hungry Rabbit Jumps, the new thriller from Roger Donaldson.

Details of the story are still sketchy, but everyone seems agreed that Nic Cage plays an ordinary guy who turns to a vigilante group to set things right when his wife (January Jones) is assaulted.

Our first guess is that Pearce would be playing the leader of the vigilante group - he can certainly pull off dangerous as well as he can do charismatic. But then, he could be playing a cop - as we say, a lot of blanks are yet to be filled in on this one.

What we can be sure of, is this project's potential: Cage is on so-hot-right-now form with Bad Lietenant: Port Of Call, New Orleans and Kick-Ass, Jones was outstanding in The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada, and continues to shine in Mad Men, while Pearce has rarely ever put a foot wrong. Donaldson, meanwhile, has proven his tension credentials with Thirteen Days, so let's hope that relative newcomer Robert Tannen's screenplay, based on (mostly) cinematographer Todd Hickey's story, is everything we're hoping for.