Rapper T.I. is set to star in three upcoming high-profile movies, after signing a multi-picture deal with a Hollywood film company.

The contract with Screen Gems has landed the hip-hop star - real name Clifford Harris Jr. - a role opposite Matt Dillon and Idris Elba in forthcoming film Bone Deep, a thriller about bank robbers attempting their final heist.

The second T.I.-starring film is titled Boulevard and is in pre-production phases, while the third is still in development, reports AllHipHop.com.

Harris, who acted alongside Denzel Washington in the 2007 drama American Gangster, is also set to star in his own reality series on MTV, about the 1,000 hours of community service he must perform before his year-long imprisonment for possessing unregistered guns.