Michael Shannon will play the villain in “Premium Rush,” a Columbia thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Jamie Chung is in negotiations to play the female lead.

“Rush” centers on a New York bike messenger (Gordon-Levitt) who picks up an envelope at Columbia University, only to be chased throughout the city by a dirty cop desperate to get his hands on it.

Shannon plays the deceptively affable cop with a violent temper. Chung would play Gordon-Levitt’s ex, a fellow daredevil bike messenger who helps him outwit the cop.

David Koepp wrote the script with John Kamps and is directing. Gavin Polone is producing.

Matt Tolmach and Elizabeth Cantillon are overseeing for the studio.

Shannon, repped by CAA and Bumpy Night Entertainment Partners, appears in “Jonah Hex” and is part of the ensemble cast of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in 2008′s “Revolutionary Road.”

Chung, repped Gersh and 3 Arts Entertainment, appears in Columbia’s Adam Sandler comedy “Grown Ups” and has Zack Snyder’s “Sucker Punch” in the can. Chung stars in ABC Family’s “Samurai Girl.”
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amie has been cast in a new film titled, “The House On Sorority Row.”  She joins the already announced Rumer Willis and Audrina Partrige.  This is an updated remake of the older film.  Here’s some news from horror website Bloody Disgusting.

We broke the news the other day that “The Hills” star Audrina Patridge would be joining Summit Entertainment’s remake of THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW, which will simple go by Sorority Row when it hits theaters in 2009. This afternoon it was revealed that Carrie Fisher (Star Wars), Jamie Chung (Dragonball), Julian Morris ( The Hillside Strangler release 50 First Dates)

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, Leah Pipes (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Margo Harshman (Even Stevens) have also joined the cast. Being directed by Stewart Hendler, the plot sees a group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked and killed by a serial killer. Fisher would play the sorority’s house mother.