Paul Bettany Starring as ‘Priest’

Paul Bettany is in negotations to take the lead role in ‘Priest,’ an adaptation of the TokyoPop comic book. Â  Visual Effects artist Scott Stewart is directing.

Billed as a horror Western, ‘Prist’Â  is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampire and follows a warrior priest (Bettany) who turns against the church to track down a murderous band of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.

Bettany and Stewart have just finished wrapping the thriller ‘Legion.’

“I knew the moment I saw Stewart’s first cut of ‘Legion’ that Bettany was Priest and so I mentioned it to him immediately,” Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper said.

Source: THR