If there was ever a film which could serve as the perfect example of a Frankenstein-like stitching together of every past popular fantasy genre film from the last thirty years or so, the unholy genre mash-up that is Priest would fit the bill.

Beginning with a stylised animated sequence (the material itself is based on a series of Japanese graphic novels) which reconfigures earth’s history and presents a place where vampires and humans have supposedly waged war against each other for centuries, we’re then introduced to a post-apocalyptic world and a rigid, theocratic state governed by men of the cloth and preceded over by Monsignor Orelas (Christopher Plummer, adding his usual gravitas to proceedings). The surviving humans here are housed in a huge walled city, where the inhabitants line up for a daily routine, ready to divulge their sins in huge metallic, industrial-looking confession booths. Priest (Paul Bettany), a former warrior in those battles with the undead, is forced out of retirement (much to the disapproval of his superiors who believe that such an act suggests treason towards the church) to save his 18 year-old niece who has been kidnapped by a pack of remaining vampires in the outside desert world.

Priest then hooks up with her boyfriend and local sheriff (Cam Gigandet) and a former member of his team who has been charged with tracking him down (Maggie Q). Together they embark on a rescue mission and quest to take down the mutated vampiric horde, who are led by a former padre and member of Bettany’s crew who has now pledged his allegiance to the dark side (Karl Urban).

Although it’s chock-full with moments of pseudo-religious nonsense and is also highly derivative, against all odds, Priest never fails to entertain. It hits all those familiar action beats you’re seen numerous times before (all slow-mo attack lunges and head-to-head video game-inspired clashes) yet somehow it manages to succeed despite an overriding sense of déjà vu almost everywhere. Some of this must be attributed to Bettany, who cuts a surprisingly lean and badass figure as Priest, complete with a laconic, Eastwood-esque drawl and fighting skills which are part kung fu (and in a seemingly arbitrary development later on) part gravity-defying superhero. He plays it thoroughly straight throughout, as does everyone else, adding to the ridiculous and fun atmosphere. Jim from Neighbours and now fully-fledged denizen of US TV land, Alan Dale, crops up briefly as one of Plummer’s cronies, momentarily taking you out of the picture, but again, his po-faced delivery is a welcomed presence.

We’re also presented with a fantastic-looking fantasy world, which is an intriguing mix of western iconography and archetypes (there’s even a travelling medicine man, played by genre fave Brad Dourif), alongside a more recognisable dystopian futuristic landscape. A powerful and sweeping score by Christopher Young really helps to build an epic sense throughout too, and the sight of Priest and his companions roaring through a vast and desolate desert on huge enhanced motorcycles, which look like they’ve been drafted in from Mega City One (the film shamelessly steals from everything and anywhere it can) is one of the many thrilling sights on offer.

Another surprisingly successful addition here is the 3D work – achieved via the post-conversion process. Where a film like Thor benefits little from the enhancement (once again making you question the studio’s unethical and exploitative handling of the medium), the quality on display here is much superior, and many should be fooled into thinking that the film was shot using that format.

Priest will never sit amongst its cribbed-from predecessors and achieve the longevity enjoyed by many of those (mainly) superior features, but it’s a fun and undemanding yarn, and will provide its intended audience with an adequate fix before what looks like an oversaturation of similar material during the summer blockbuster season.

Whatever the box office outcome, the makers appear to be wholly confident they have a hit on their hands. The film sets up the intended further escapades of Bettany & Co in such a self-assured way, you half expect to be greeted with a title card at the end which reads ‘short intermission’ before being thrust back into the action once again.

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Over the weekend, we joined together with four other UK movie blogs to chat with Karl Urban about his new movie, Priest 3D which hits cinemas this Friday, 6th May. In the interview we talk about the movie in hand but also do our best to get some info out of him for the forthcoming movie Dredd, based on the Judge Dredd comics.

Priest also stars Paul Bettany, Cam Gigndet, Maggie Q, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Plummer. It’ll be with us 13th May but scroll down to view the new trailer below.

Synopsis: A Vampire western about a warrior priest who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff and a priestess to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped his niece.  Based on the graphic novel by Min-Woo Hyung.

This interview was conducted in conjunction with four other great blogs including Film Shaft, The Hollywood News, Flicks and Bits and Live For Films. I’ve placed our questions top followed by the others below…..

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Vampires are very common in movies today. What sets Priest apart? HeyUGuys!

The vampires in our film are not the vampires that we’ve become accustomed to, they’re creatures. They’re closer to elements that you’d find in The Lord of the Rings. I think it’s refreshing that they’re not the vampires that you take home to meet mum. These creatures are scary, which is refreshing after we’ve had a raft of these sexy, pretty boy vampires. We’ve taken the thing a bit more in a direction which is grounded in horror and fantasy.

We will see you soon as the new Judge Dredd. Dredd, like Priest, came from a comic book – are you staying faithful to the source and are the two projects at all similar? HeyUGuys!

I think on some levels there are definite similarities between Dredd and Priest. The Priest lives in a walled city and there’s a post-apocalyptic wasteland around it outside. He rides a motorbike too and I’m sure there are more similarities.

The character of Black Hat seems more ambiguous than your generic movie villain – how does it compare to a ‘good’ character like Judge Dredd? HeyUGuys!

I guess the aspect that appealed to me about the character – as I approached him -  was that there is wonderful element of tragedy about him. He’s a fallen hero, a Warrior Priest who’s job was to protect mankind from this plague of vampires. In the course of doing his job he falls in battle and gets transformed into the very thing that he’s been fighting. That’s an amazing starting point. To suddenly be on the other side of that bridge and have no choice about it. It was really interesting – a question of where do you take it from there?

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Did you have to do any training for the ass kicking antics in the film, if so did that help you with your character? Flicks and Bits

Yeah, the physical aspect is definitely a part of it. The vampire is endowed with superhuman strength and ability. Paul Bettany and I trained for about 4 or 5 weeks with a martial arts team. We get to do a lot of physical action in the film. I think it’s great. It really stacks up.

Are you big on comics or was joining the film a reaction to the script, character or project in general? Film Shaft

I do enjoy comics although I don’t get much opportunity to read them these days. But certainly a few years ago there were a few favourites. Frank Miller’s Dark Knight was one of my favourites all time comics along with the Judge Dredd series. I guess my first point of contact for Priest was not the comic. My first point of contact was the script, which I read and found to be very interesting. I guess I was drawn to the characters. And upon reading the script I met with director Scott Stewart and found myself to be quite in sync with him. The way he outlined his vision for the film was loaded with references that I understood and respected. He was talking about Blade Runner, Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood and films like The Searchers. It was clear to me that he was very specific in his vision and what he was attempting to achieve had a truly epic quality to it. So I figured when you encounter someone like that it’s a good idea to go with it.

The film is a mash-mash of many genres; it’s post-apocalyptic, it’s futuristic, it’s got horror elements, western elements… how would you describe it? Flicks and Bits

(Laughs) Well that’s exactly how I would describe it! That’s actually how I have been describing it. ‘A post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, vampire, western’. I also believe that there is a tinge of fantasy in there.

How was it handling the fight choreography? Any accidents? Flicks and Bits

Yeah there were a few. I accidently crushed Paul Bettany’s fingers in one scene. There was another time when we were rehearsing a fight sequence on gravel. Some error of co-ordination and my fist ended up in Paul Bettany’s face – which I was most apologetic about!

How was working closely with Paul Bettany as your nemesis? The Hollywood News

I had a great time working with him, he’s just a class act. He really is. He’s a fun, funny guy to be around. The great thing about Paul is that he comes to the set with such a positive attitude. He’s so genuinely happy to be there that it’s infectious – a great chap. The entire cast and crew became one big family. You can tell that you’ve had a great time making a movie when on the last time of filming you are genuinely sad that it’s over. You feel like you could continue with these characters.

Have you seen the finished film yet? Live For Film

Yes I have, I loved it and 3D is the way to see it. Don Burgess, the cinematographer, has done an incredible job. They really come at with a lot of energy and the 3D conversion is fantastic too.

Do you have a favourite line or moment from Priest? Live For Film

A favourite line? I just loved everything about it but I thought Lily Collins was extraordinary as were Maggie Q and Paul and Cam. Just really strong performances. The fact that you enjoy spending time with these characters I think is a good sign. When you get to the end of the film you want to know what happens next.

So the Priest comics may have taken some inspiration from Judge Dredd and 2000AD comics? The Hollywood News

Everything is some way shape or form is derivative. I mean Judge Dredd was inspired by Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry in creating the character so it has it’s own point of genesis.

Are you a fan of the Stallone version of Judge Dredd? Film Shaft

The interesting thing about the Stallone version was that there were some elements that were faithful and some that were not. I was a fan of the Judge Dredd comics before the Stallone version came out. Even though on some levels I felt the film was not exactly honourable to what John Wagner had created, it was still Judge Dredd and I still enjoyed seeing that world up there. I think the most telling admission that’s come out recently is that Stallone said himself that he felt his Judge Dredd was a missed opportunity.

Priest 3D is at cinemas on Friday 6^th May

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The cutting of a film trailer – a good film trailer, is a fine art.

The quality of the choices you make, the shots you select, how you use the music and the decision to tease or to throw your best shots at the screen – all of these must be faced and for a group of London students the decisions they made had some very important consequences.

Forty-one film students were given the chance to re-edit the recent Priest trailer (which you can see here) and give their own spin on the world Scott Stewart and Paul Bettany have created.

Once the tast was completed three of the students were chosen to fly out to Los Angeles and show their new trailers to the film’s stars and director who then had the task of selecting their favourite.

It’s a fascinating story as its one thing to spur on film students to learn part of the filmmaking process by creating something new and exciting, but its quite another to have their work shown to established filmmakers themselves.

Having seen the trailers it’s testament to the creativity and understanding of the chosen three that they made such varied choices which resulted in the three distinct visions.

You can see the story unfold, and the reaction from the director of Priest, in the video below and we’ve got an exclusive look at the three trailers chosen – check those out beneath the next video.

A longer version of this story is available to watch here.

Trailer 1:

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Trailer 3:

Yahoo have just released the second full-length theatrical trailer for Paul Bettany’s new movie Priest. This movie reunites him with the director of Legion, Scott Charles Stewart but let’s hope this movie is better than that was. Adam got to see a sizzle reel for it last week at Sony and it seemed quite positive. This trailer is actually more like a clip with 50% of it being dedicated to showing us how one of the enemy is brought down by Bettany along with some nifty weapons.

Priest also stars Cam Gigndet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Plummer. It’ll be with us 13th May but scroll down to view the new trailer below.

Synopsis: A Vampire western about a warrior priest who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff and a priestess to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped his niece.  Based on the graphic novel by Min-Woo Hyung.

Here at HeyUGuys we’re suckers for a fun-looking, sci-fi/horror/western hybrid, post-apocalyptic shoot em’ up and yesterday we got a little taster of a feature that could potentially satisfy this yearning.

The film in question was Priest, and judging from the scene and extended trailer we were provided with, it would appear to tick all those fantasy boxes. Starring Paul Bettany in the titular role, this tale of a combat-savvy man the cloth who sets out on a quest to rescue his niece from a pack of vampires (the species have a monopoly over the planet) has a epic look and feel which extends beyond the Mega City One-esque vibe of the huge, fort-like human city, to the striking desert landscape beyond it’s walls (which featured one impressive shot of Bettany and his crew roaring thorough the sand on some souped-up, industrial-looking motorcycles).

Although a post-conversion 3D effort, the scene we were shown of the Priest taking out a pack of predatory vampiric creatures (which features the greatest use of a bible for combat we’ve ever likely to see on cinema screens) looked a cut above any previous features to use this process. A lengthy post-production time must be accountable for the quality here, and it really looks like the makers were intent on getting it as good as possible.

You can judge for yourself if their time and effort was worth it when the film is released in the UK on 11th May.

Here’s a nice new high res poster for Paul Bettany’s new movie, Priest. Tomorrow, Adam is off to see a 10 minute preview of the movie and report back.

Priest stars Paul Bettany, Cam Gigndet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Plummer and is directed by Scott Stewart.  Stewart and Bettany previously worked on Legion together and we’re all hoping that this movie is a vast improvement on that! Unfortunately from one of these images, it looks like it could be more of the same but I guess we’ll have to wait and see!

Synopsis: Priest is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. Paul Bettany is Priest, a legendary warrior priest during the last Vampire War, who now lives in obscurity among the other human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities controlled by the Church. But when his 18-year-old niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires in the desolate wastelands outside, Priest breaks his sacred vows and ventures out to find her and seek vengeance upon those responsible, especially their brutal leader (Karl Urban). Priest is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend, Hicks (Cam Gigandet), a local outpost sheriff, and Priestess (Maggie Q), a member of his former legion of vampire-killers who has otherworldly fighting skills.

Priest is released in the UK 13th May. Click the poster images below to enlarge.

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Here’s a new poster for Scott Stewart’s new film Priest and someone has clearly been getting stuck into Assassin’s Creed haven’t they?

Priest is directed by Scott Charles Stewart and also stars Cam Gigndet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Plummer. The 13th of May is when it frees itself from the mantrap, so get scribbling in that diary.

Synopsis: A Vampire western about a warrior priest who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff and a priestess to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped his niece.  Based on the graphic novel by Min-Woo Hyung.

Here’s that there poster,

Sony have released this brand new TV spot for Priest during the commercials at the 2011 Super Bowl.

Priest stars Paul Bettany, Cam Gigndet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Plummer and is directed by  Scott Charles Stewart.

It’ll be with us 13th May but scroll down to view the new TV spot below.

Synopsis: A Vampire western about a warrior priest who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff and a priestess to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped his niece. Based on the graphic novel by Min-Woo Hyung.

Watch the Super Bowl TV spot below and watch all TV spots and trailer from the evening here.

Sony have been spoiling us this morning and have not only sent over the new international trailer for Battle: Los Angeles but have also sent us a new trailer for Paul Bettany’s latest movie, Priest. The trailer begins as the Full Theatrical version that we put up here but then opens up into some new footage which as far as I’m aware we’ve not seen before.

Priest is directed by Scott Charles Stewart and also stars Cam Gigndet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Plummer. It’ll be with us 13th May but scroll down to view the new trailer below.

Synopsis: A Vampire western about a warrior priest who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff and a priestess to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped his niece.  Based on the graphic novel by Min-Woo Hyung.

Last night, Yahoo released the full theatrical trailer for The Priest which sees Paul Bettany as the title character. The movie is directed by Scott Stewart who worked recently on Legion with Bettany and stars Cam Gigndet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Priest is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. Paul Bettany is Priest, a legendary warrior priest during the last Vampire War, who now lives in obscurity among the other human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities controlled by the Church. But when his 18-year-old niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires in the desolate wastelands outside, Priest breaks his sacred vows and ventures out to find her and seek vengeance upon those responsible, especially their brutal leader (Karl Urban). Priest is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend, Hicks (Cam Gigandet), a local outpost sheriff, and Priestess (Maggie Q), a member of his former legion of vampire-killers who has otherworldly fighting skills.

Priest is released in the UK 13th May.

Sony have sent us a couple of new images for Priest to coincide with the new trailer that came out yesterday. Priest stars Paul Bettany, Cam Gigndet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Plummer and is directed by Scott Stewart.  Stewart and Bettany previously worked on Legion together and we’re all hoping that this movie is a vast improvement on that! Unfortunately from one of these images, it looks like it could be more of the same but I guess we’ll have to wait and see!

Synopsis: Priest is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. Paul Bettany is Priest, a legendary warrior priest during the last Vampire War, who now lives in obscurity among the other human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities controlled by the Church. But when his 18-year-old niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires in the desolate wastelands outside, Priest breaks his sacred vows and ventures out to find her and seek vengeance upon those responsible, especially their brutal leader (Karl Urban). Priest is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend, Hicks (Cam Gigandet), a local outpost sheriff, and Priestess (Maggie Q), a member of his former legion of vampire-killers who has otherworldly fighting skills.

Priest is released in the UK 13th May. Click the images below to enlarge.

Hmmm. Not sure about this one really. Seeing this new trailer for Scott Stewart’s ecclesiastical fangfest, Priest, I found myself playing spot the influence very quickly and the whole thing looks dramatically derivative at the moment.

That said, Paul Bettany is great in pretty much everything he’s in, and there’s a certain stylstic flair to what we see in the trailer. You decide.

There’s still another eight or so months until the film is due to hit cinemas so plenty of time to whip up a frenzy of your own.

We’ve got IMPawards to ‘thank’ for these new posters from Scott Stewart’s forthcoming Priest, starring Paul Bettany as the angry cleric, hellbent on hunting down some vampires for some reason. I’m sure it’s a good reason though.

It’s got a pretty good cast though, with Karl Urban and Christopher Plummer appearing alongside Cam Gigandet, Lily Collins and Stephen Moyer, and the previous images and trailers we’ve seen point to something better than the last collaboration between Bettany and Stewart, the gun toting angel thriller, Legion.

Anyway, here are the posters, which proudly proclaim their 3Dness.

Although that last one feels a little incomplete…

That’s better.

Crackle (a website I’ve not come across before) has posted this brand new trailer for Priest. Priest stars Paul Bettany, Cam Gigndet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Plummer and is directed by Scott Stewart.  Stewart is the same chap who helmed Legion so I’m guessing that he and Bettany got on pretty well.

Synopsis: Priest is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. Paul Bettany is Priest, a legendary warrior priest during the last Vampire War, who now lives in obscurity among the other human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities controlled by the Church. But when his 18-year-old niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires in the desolate wastelands outside, Priest breaks his sacred vows and ventures out to find her and seek vengeance upon those responsible, especially their brutal leader (Karl Urban). Priest is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend, Hicks (Cam Gigandet), a local outpost sheriff, and Priestess (Maggie Q), a member of his former legion of vampire-killers who has otherworldly fighting skills.

Priest is released in the UK 13th May next year so a while to wait I’m afraid.

Thanks to Comingsoon.net via twitter, we now have a trailer for the new Scott Stewert film Priest which reunites him with Legion star Paul Bettany.  I don’t know about all of you but I have been anxiously awaiting this trailer because up until now I have only seen a few pictures and had no idea what it was about.

This western vampire film seems to combine elements and styles of The Book of Eli, Legion (which makes sense),a dash of underworld and maybe even a hint of vengeance from Inglourious Basterds.  If you put all of these films together I think you can imagine the type of film this is and that it may actually be a pretty fun one to watch.  The only downside I foresee is the post-conversion of the film to 3-D, I don’t think it will add much to the movie but that’s just me

I will say that the vampires do look a bit odd but the action and weapons look bad ass.  I mean come on, there are metal crosses that turn into a ninja star like weapon, which to me is pretty cool.  Plus, it’s a Priest riding a freaking motorcycle, when do you ever see that?

In case you were wondering, I have provided the synopsis to the film below:

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.

The film also stars Maggie Q, Karl Urban, and Cam Gigandet and will be released in the spring of 2011

Check out the trailer for Priest below and then please tell us what you think of the trailer in the comments section below.

SlashFilm recently got hold of some new images from Scott Stewart’s (Legion) upcoming post-apocalyptic drama, Priest.

These images come a week before Comic-Con, therefore Screengems are supposedly hoping they pump up the anticipation levels. These images follow the first official image and a few set pictures, which you can see here.

Priest stars Paul Bettany (Wimbledon), who previously worked with Stewart on the hugely disappointing Legion, as a warrior Priest who disobeys Church law in order to hunt down a group of vampires who’ve kidnapped his niece.

The film also features appearances from Karl Urban (Star Trek), Christopher Plummer (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), Alan Dale (Lost) and Maggie Q (Die Hard 4.0). It’s an adaptation of the Tokyopop manga by Hyung Min-woo.

In a similar vein to Legion, the film deals with themes of death, supernatural warrior Gods, vampires, violence and horror. However, if compared to Legion, Priest looks the superior of the two films, with the images showing a more polished, cooler film.

Check out the images below.

Here a movie like looks like it could be rather entertaining. Operation Endgame looks like an action, comedy, parody movie of all espionage style movies that go before it!

The movie stars Rob Corddry we recently saw in Hot Tub Time Machine alongside Zack Galifianakis, Emilie de Ravin, Ving Rhames, Ellen Barkin, Odette Yustman, Maggie Q  and Jeffrey Tambor. Latino Review gave me the heads up on this one and whey mention that it only had a limited thetrical run and will be going to DVD pretty soon.

No information as yet what will happen in the UK but we can keep you posted.

Those following the career of Paul Bettany might be wondering whatever happened to the man who stared into the dark abyss of our souls in Gangster Number One all those years ago.

He established himself instantly with his portrayal of a young Malcolm McDowell in Paul McGuigan’s film, and while he has dipped his toes in the rom com pool occasionally, he has often looked to distance himself from the mainstream and in taking roles such as Priest he is doing just that.

Since his last film Legion took an Icarusian plunge from favour at the box office, he remains undaunted and has reunited with director Scott Stewart for this new film which is currently shooting.

Take a look here for a brief history of the film Preist, along with the very first shots of Paul Bettany in character, and then scroll down for more on set shots of the man of bloodied cloth.

These came crashing into our consciousness by the divine duo of Just Jared and MovieWeb. Bow down in thanks.

Following their collaboration on the poorly received Legion, Paul Bettany and director Scott Stewart have reunited with another religious themed horrorshow for their take on Hyung Min-woo’s comic series Priest, which at its heart is a blend of cowboys, vampires and a host of hellbent craziness.

A behind the scenes clip surfaced a few months ago but the trail went cold until today when a single image from the film appeared online.

Bettany stars with Karl Urban, Christopher Plummer, Brad Dourif, Maggie Q and Cam Gigandet and in Entertainment Weekly director Stewart is quoted thusly,

In our world, priests are like Jedi Knights with special powers and training.

Our vampires are more feral and disturbing than, say, the teen-angst vampires of Twilight or the sexy vampires of True Blood. Those vampires are metaphors. Ours aren’t.

That’ll be news to True Blood star Stephen Moyer who also appears in the film.

Here’s the image, let’s hope there’s more in our future.

MovieWeb pointed us to EW who had this first. We’re like an internet version of the Human Centipede aren’t we?

Today, courtesy of Entertainment Tonight Canada, we have the first look at Scott Stewart’s new film Priest. This follows his pretty terrible Legion which David reviewed here and, like Legion, Priest also stars Paul Bettany in the lead role.

Although I don’t think I disliked Legion quite as much as David, I only thought there were about 10 minutes of enjoyable film in there and the rest was mostly awful. If Stewart can maybe build on those 10 minutes rather than the other 90 maybe Priest could be okay. Also, one of the weak points of Legion was the writing but Priest has a different writer and the film is based on a graphic novel so maybe with some solid visual effects (these were actually pretty good in Legion) and a decent script this could shape up to be a enjoyable vampire action film.

The synopsis of the film is as follows

Priest tells the story of a warrior priest (Bettany) who disobeys Church law by teaming with a young sheriff (Cam Gigandet) and a beautiful priestess (Maggie Q) to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped the priest’s niece before they turn her into one of them.  The film co-stars Karl Urban, Lily Collins, Steven Moyer, Brad Dourif and Christopher Plummer.

The clip is embedded below and includes some behind the scenes footage and interviews with Paul Bettany and True Blood vampire Bill, Stephen Moyer.

The film is due to be released in the UK on 14th January 2011.