Cage Cast in HUNGRY RABBIT JUMPS
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- By Venkman
It looks like Nicolas Cage will star in the thriller Hungry Rabbit Jumps. Roger Donaldson will direct for Tobey Maguire’s Maguire Entertainment and Endgame.
The script, written by Robert Tannen, centers on a man whose wife is the victim of a brutal crime. He subsequently becomes entangled with an underground vigilante organization. The producer of the film Jim Stern says:
In the best of the Hitchcockian tradition, we’ve got a character who’s offered the chance for vengeance and he finds himself in over his head.
It’s a pretty bold statement to descibe the film as being the best of the Hitchcockian tradition. The last movie I saw that really reminded me of a Hitchcock film was a film staring Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer called Transsiberian.
I just don’t understand why producers keep hiring Nicholas Cage, although it looks like he will do a great job in the upcoming film Kick-Ass.
Filming will start in January in New Orleans.
Cage, whose Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was also filmed in the city, will segue from Rabbit to 3D pic Drive Angry, which starts shooting in April.
Source: THR
Seriously, I just don't buy Nic Cage in a truly dramatic role, in a truly dramatic film. So why fudge up a seemingly good plot, but putting Nic Cage in the lead role?
Jesus, to be off-topic, let me just say, is Sean Penn the last great actor in Hollywood? Definitely one the FEW. Put him in this role, and I'm sold. Nic Cage doesn't sell this shit at all.
He might have been in lots of forgettable movies lately, but he has made plenty of serious movies.
Whether or not you 'buy Nic Cage in a truly dramatic role', he did win an Oscar for his lead in "Leaving Las Vegas".