PRIEST Trailer

Screen Gems has released the trailer for PRIEST, via Crackle, I’m guessing it’ll be attached to RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE which opens this weekend. I saw similar footage at Comic-Con ’10 and though this was made by director Scott Stewart who brought us the disappointing Legion, I’m willing to give this one a shot, out of curiosity mostly, I wanna see what type of exciting VFX-filled thrilling action sequences it’s going to offers us. I’m not sure why Karl Urban in here has that Van Helsing/Solomon Kane type outfit. That look is getting old…
In PRIEST, “A warrior priest (Paul Bettany) disobeys Church law by teaming with a young sheriff (Cam Gigandet) and a beautiful priestess (Maggie Q). The three band together to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped the priest’s niece before they turn her into one of them…

PRIEST, starring Paul Bettany as a priest out to kill the vampires that have kidnapped his niece, to be played by Lily Collins
Karl Urban plays the villain, Black Hat, the evil leader of the bloodsuckers who was once a priest and hunter but now fancies himself a god of vampires and Maggie Q as a priestess, a vampire hunter as tough as the priests. Cam Gigandet will play a young sheriff who is half-vampire, assisting Bettany.
Based on a tokyopop comic book created by Hyung Min Woo and Cory Goodman wrote the screenplay.

Here’s the official synopsis of the graphic novel..
“In the frontier of the American west, a veil of evil threatens to engulf humanity. Servants of the fallen archangel Temozarela are paving the way for their dark lord’s resurrection.
One man stands in the way of the apocalypse—Ivan Isaacs—a fallen priest who sold his soul to the devil Belial for the power to fight evil. Armed with a wicked blade and silver bullets, Ivan will give the heretics a baptism of blood in his pilgrimage for humanity’s redemption.
Ivan Isaacs was once a priest. Devoted to his faith he would have given up anything for it. Then the establishment he believed in turned on him, sending him headlong into Hell. Now, he’s back. With the priesthood now corrupt with demons, the undead and black prayers, he has returned with the help of the demon Belial, a voice in the darkness who offered Ivan a chance at vengeance, in exchange for his soul. With his six-shooter, a bouie knife at his side and the white collar of his former life adorning his neck he is a lost pale rider in a barren wild west where past and future collide.”

PRIEST opens May 13th, 2011