Fassbender reunites with 'Hunger' director

Michael Fassbender has joined the cast of ’12 Years a Slave’.

The actor will re-team with director Steve McQueen for the third time when he appears in the film, a true story about a New Yorker named Solomon Northrup who was kidnapped from Washington in 1841 and shipped off to become a forced labourer before being rescued from a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1853.