SHANNON: My pleasure. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) PFEIFFER: Michael Shannon is heading out on tour with his R.E.M. cover band in February. His directorial debut, the movie "Eric Larue," is out in March.

Michael Shannon is turning his own eyes behind the camera in his newest project. It's a movie called Eric LaRue and it's his directorial debut. The trailer for, "Broadwalk Empire." YouTube ...

Michael Shannon and Judy Greer first collaborated when they were cast in the sweet homage to small town living “Pottersville” in 2017. They would meet up in an episode of the Duplass brothers ...

Michael Shannon swore he’d never direct a movie. The Academy Award–nominated actor thought it sounded like an enormous pain. But then the playwright Brett Neveu, Shannon’s friend and fellow ...

SHANNON: That is, yeah - particularly my daughters. I mean, that's the one thing, you know, that won't change, is I love them very much, and I always will. And they're my, you know, favorite people.

Actor Michael Shannon wants to make sense of our current time. His first (and perhaps last) outing as a director is Eric LaRue. The film explores the aftermath of a school shooting, primarily through ...

Michael Shannon is turning his own eyes behind the camera in his newest project. It's a movie called Eric LaRue and it's his directorial debut.

SHANNON: That is, yeah - particularly my daughters. I mean, that's the one thing, you know, that won't change, is I love them very much, and I always will. And they're my, you know, favorite people.

SHANNON: Yeah. MARTIN: Michael Shannon's new movie, "Eric Larue," will be out this spring. You can see him on tour, covering R.E.M.'s "Fables Of The Reconstruction" album this winter.