SDCC ’10: Get ready to be baptised in action with Priest 3D

Scott Stewart and Paul Bettany worked together on this past January’s religious thriller Legion from Screen Gems. The film was a hybrid combining small portions of the horror genre with behometh amounts of action. They have re-teamed for Priest 3D and are joined by fan favorites Brad Dourif [Child's Play], Karl Urban [Star Trek], and Maggie Q [Balls of Fury] in the adaptation of the TokyoPop comic that wil be released on May 13, 2011.

Killer Film hit the press line where the members of the cast talked about Priest 3D. I will admit that I was cynical about the movie after it was converted to 3D, but the teaser trailer that premiered in Hall H silenced me and the hard to please Comic-Con crowd with flashfire imagery that rocked the house.

“PRIEST, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller, is set in an alternate world — one ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. The story revolves around a legendary Warrior Priest (Paul Bettany) from the last Vampire War who now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled by the Church. When his niece (Lily Collins) is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on a quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece’s boyfriend (Cam Gigandet), a trigger-fingered young wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess (Maggie Q) who possesses otherworldly fighting skills.”