Jeff Nichols has written and directed three films — Mud, Take Shelter, and Shotgun Stories — all of which feature Michael Shannon. So it only makes sense that Shannon will star in Nichols’s next joint, an untitled “present day sci-fi chase film.†It’s the first major studio project for Nichols, set up at Warner Bros. Shannon will be hot off his turn as General Zod in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel.