It was a busy weekend for Michael "Do you mind if I call you Chico?" Shannon, as the Oscar-nominated "Revolutionary Road" star signed on to no less than three projects.
On Monday, Lionsgate announced that Shannon will play Gerard Butler's best friend in Marc Forster's "Machine Gun Preacher." Jason Keller wrote the script, which is based on the true story of Sam Childers, a once-violent drug-dealing biker who went on to rescue the youngest victims of war from some dangerous parts of Africa.
After that, Shannon's publicist confirmed that he'll segue to Columbia's "Premium Rush," where he'll play the villain — a dirty New York cop chasing Joseph Gordon-Levitt's bike messenger in David Koepp's thriller.