Shankar was the executive producer for the movies Main Street, Machine Gun Preacher, The Grey, Killing Them Softly, Gangs of Wasseypur, Dredd, Broken City, Lone Survivor, and A Walk Among the Tombstones. He also produced the movie The Voices and the 2014 TV mini-series Judge Dredd: Superfiend. As an actor he starred in the movie The Voices and is scheduled to star in the upcoming films Bob Thunder: Internet Assassin, Get the Girl, Red Spring, and Cloudland. His “Bootleg Universe” one-shot film series includes The Punisher: Dirty Laundry, Venom: Truth in Journalism, Judge Dredd: Superfiend, and Power/Rangers.