Michael Chiklis has joined the cast of "
Eagle Eye," the D.J. Caruso-directed thriller for DreamWorks.
Chiklis ("The Shield") will play the U.S. secretary of defense in the story that revolves around a slacker (Shia LaBeouf) and a single mother (Michelle Monaghan) who form an unlikely partnership when they are framed as terrorists and forced to become members of a cell with plans to carry out a political assassination.